Manufacturing
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Sellick Equipment fined in employee injury case
Magnetic hoist had not been properly maintained
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Ford Canada, Unifor reach tentative deal
Ford union workers will vote this weekend on deal that includes EV manufacturing
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U.S. drops tariffs on aluminum
Manufacturers breathe a sign of relief
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U.S. aluminum lobbyist defends tariffs
Robert DeFrancesco went to bat for the two American producers that convinced U.S. to impose a new 10-percent levy on exports from Canada
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Raymond wins manufacturing award
2020 Manufacturing Leadership Award recognizes leadership in operational excellence
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Anatomy of a pivot
By the end of June 2020, GM Canada had delivered upwards of 650,000 facemasks to Health Canada. The masks were manufactured at GM’s car assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, as part of a 10-million at-cost mask order from the government of Canada. This is the story of the company’s nimble pivot – in just three weeks – from making cars and trucks to producing 50,000 masks a day to help protect against the spread of Covid-19.
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Kion building new plant in China
Will manufacture Linde Material Handling and Baoli brand industrial trucks
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Motion Industries picks up TRC Hydraulics
TRC supplies hydraulic products and services from its home base in New Brunswick
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Politics, pandemics and Russian aluminum
Why Canada faces fresh U.S. tariffs
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How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE
But sweatshop problems live on
