LANSING, MI—Michigan’s state House has passed bills giving both public and private employees so-called right-to-work protections.

FAYETTEVILLE, TN—Nearly 1,000 union workers at the Goodman air-conditioner assembly plant here went on strike Saturday.

Sunbeam Products Inc. is a leading manufacturer of indoor and outdoor appliances. At its plant in Neosho, MO, the company manufactures nearly 600,000 GrillMaster and Coleman gas, electric and charcoal grills during the six-month grilling season (Memorial Day to Thanksgiving).

With the election over and the economy picking up steam, manufacturers are poised to reinvest in their assembly plants.

LAFAYETTE, GA—Roper Corp. is looking to fill about 100 production jobs at its assembly plant here, which makes kitchen stoves and microwaves.

MARION, OH—Looking to staff a new assembly line, Whirlpool Corp. is hiring 150 workers at its dryer assembly plant here.

If noise reduction is a goal in your designs, the right incorporation of perforated metals can sometimes help achieve that. Here’s some helpful design tips on how to do that.

Additive manufacturing is one of the hottest technologies to come along in the last 50 years.

Hot-plate welding can produce strong, leak-tight plastic assemblies with complex geometries. 

The burden of federal regulations was a hot topic on the campaign trail this year.