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Tough talk, tariff threats resurface as USMCA readies for Wednesday debut
(CP) WASHINGTON – If the long-awaited debut of Canada’s…
IMTS Show Cancelled
The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) has announced it…
Nova Scotia firm making face shields opts for at home assembly by workers
HALIFAX – A small Halifax-area company that has pivoted…
Enbridge reopens underwater section of Line 5 pipeline after inspection
Alberta-based Enbridge says it has reopened a branch of…
Carrier New Healthy Buildings Program
Carrier has introduced the Healthy Buildings Program, a suite…
Maintenance Must Win Battles
Recently, I wrote an article on getting back to…
FCA Brampton Assembly Hands-Free Hand Sanitizing Station
FCA Canada’s Brampton Assembly Plant (BAP) designed hands-free hand…
Mask makers raise prices as material, labour costs rise amid pandemic
Kevin Vuong started to sell face masks through a…
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales posted record plunge in April
OTTAWA – Canadian manufacturing sales fell by a record…
Feds sign $105 million deal with Bombardier for two new Challenger jets
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government has inked a…
MainTrain 2020 Goes Digital
PEMAC Asset Management Association of Canada has announced that…
GM Canada to Provide 10 Million Face Masks
General Motors of Canada will produce 10 million face…
TMMC Builds Nine-Millionth Vehicle
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) rolled a Lexus RX…
Cascades to close containerboard plant in Burlington, Ont., affecting 45 workers
KINGSEY FALLS, Que. – Cascades Inc. says it will…
ATS Automation Tooling Systems reports $13.1M fourth quarter profit
CAMBRIDGE – ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. says it…
Boeing cuts 12,000 jobs, resumes production of grounded jet
Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs through…
SpaceX captures the flag, beating Boeing in cosmic contest
(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL – The first astronauts launched by…
BRP’s CEO hopes ‘staycations’ will boost sales of Sea Doos and off road vehicles
Sea-Doo maker BRP Inc. is facing a rough ride…
USMCA poised for star turn in trade spotlight as White House sours on China
WASHINGTON – If trade deals were football players, Canada’s…
CN Rail feeling slowdown as auto and crude revenues drop, prompting job cuts
MONTREAL – Business at Canadian National Railway Co. has…
Survey: US factories sink in May for third straight month
(AP) WASHINGTON – American factories slowed for the third…
Automotive Manufacturing and COVID-19
This time last year, automotive plants in Canada were making full use of their production lines to produce their new vehicles.
Boeing says it will reduce workforce by 400 in Winnipeg due to impact from COVID 19
WINNIPEG – Boeing says it plans to cut 400…
Canadians Top 9 in Global Ventilator Design Competition
Engineers from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) and Fanshawe…
Electrozad Now a Festo Canada Distributor
Festo Canada announced Electrozad as its full-line exclusive sales,…
‘We just get the runaround,’ residents say of water problems in Ontario hamlet
NORFOLK COUNTY – Brenda Himburg is livid, but in…
Critical Resilience
Hardening Oil & Gas and Mining Facilities
Auto workers’ tenuous return a ray of hope in jobs crisis
(AP) DETROIT – Defying a wave of layoffs that…
Reassurances emerge after second oilsands mine work camp outbreak
CALGARY – A second outbreak of COVID-19 at an…
Manufacturing sales fell 9.2% in March as factories closed due to the pandemic
OTTAWA – Canadian manufacturing sales posted their biggest percentage…
