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The annual report detailed that over half of U.S. building materials suppliers saw sales decline in 2024, showing a sluggish market despite modest overall revenue gains.
Lonestar Electric is expanding to Tennessee with a new distribution center set to open in June, creating around 40 jobs.
The decline would be the first in about a decade outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest government data showed that while overall monthly housing starts rose, they decline for single-family units.
The investment is set to create the first new primary aluminum production plant to be built in the U.S. in 45 years.
Grant Hagberg is a dry ice, carbon dioxide, hydrotesting and fire extinguisher recharging provider operating from a single location in northwest Indiana.
The latest ISM forecast revealed flat or minimal growth for manufacturing in 2025, with revenue, employment and capital spending expectations all trending lower.
Canadian manufacturing sales fell for a second straight month in March, while wholesale sales posted a modest gain despite volume declines.
U.S. industrial production stagnated in April, as gains in utilities were offset by declines in manufacturing and mining.
Verusen launched its Explainability AI Agent to bring transparency and trust to AI-driven materials and inventory optimization.
U.S. producer prices fell 0.5% in April, marking a second consecutive monthly decline and flipped economists’ expectations of a 0.3% increase.
A new chair will succeed Timothy Fiore in June 2025 to lead ISM’s Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, bringing leadership experience from FedEx.
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