Category: Industry

Supply Fears Lead EU Vaccine Industry to Seek Home Comforts

FRANKFURT—European companies playing key supporting roles in COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing are working to move production and supply chains closer to their customers to guard against trade restrictions that have interrupted supplies during the pandemic. Germany’s Merck KGaA, whose Life Science unit is one of the world’s largest makers of bioreactor gear and supplies, told Reuters…


Ex-Industry City Manager Pleads Not Guilty to Misappropriating Public Funds

LOS ANGELES—A former Industry city manager charged along with three other people in an alleged corruption scheme pleaded not guilty today to a felony count of misappropriation of public funds. Paul Jule Philips, 70, is due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Sept. 22 for the start of what could be a two-month hearing…


Railroad Industry Worried About Biden Executive Order

An executive order signed by President Joe Biden that could force railroads to allow other operators to use their tracks could reduce competition and increase costs, according to industry experts. Biden’s order last week in part called on the independent Surface Transportation Board to consider what the Association of American Railroads calls “forced switching” rule….


Can Cell Phone Radiation Damage Your DNA?

Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so much money that sometimes the science can get manipulated. When it comes to the potential human health effects of cell phone use, certainly, you might end up with a crick in your…


US Industrial Production Warms With the Weather, Rising 1.4 Percent

WASHINGTON—American industry rebounded last month as the United States recovered from an unusually frigid February. Industrial production—including output at factories, mines and utilities—rose 1.4 percent in March, reversing a 2.6 percent drop in February, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. The increase was about half the surge economists had expected as federal aid flows into the…


German Industry Urges EU to Toughen Response to Unfair Chinese Trade Practices

BERLIN-The European Union should take a tougher approach to protecting companies from unfair Chinese trade practices as Beijing is not keeping its promise to further open up its economy, Germany’s BDI industry association said on Thursday. China has become Germany’s most important trading partner and exports of “Made in Germany” goods to the country have…


Biden Scraps Trump’s Industry-Focused Apprenticeship Program

In one of his latest executive actions, President Joe Biden has discontinued an industry-led apprenticeship system launched under the Trump administration, shifting the control over those programs back to the federal government. The Trump initiative, known as Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Program (IRAP), was created in 2017 as a parallel to the existing Registered Apprenticeships, which are…