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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

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17 states stand by plan to electrify 30% of trucks and buses by 2030. Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. That’s all for this week.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

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The gauge brings together 27 variables that take the temperature of everything from cross-border transportation costs to country-level manufacturing data in the euro area, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.K. Akorn Operating Company filed for bankruptcy in 2020 but had continued to manufacture albuterol until last fall.

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Packaging Comes to the Forefront of Sustainability Efforts

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Now, nearly a dozen states, including Massachusetts, are on track to follow Maine’s lead.”[3] ”[3] In fact, a recent poll found that most consumers blame manufacturers for the packaging waste problem. What are CPG Manufacturers Doing? ”[4] The Maine EPR law intends to do just that. .”[7] ”[8].

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Jobs Sustainability: Luddites are Alive and Well

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After describing in depth how thousands of American workers lost jobs as manufacturers moved production to China, he writes, “Another strategy to stay competitive was to invest in new equipment that could take out labor costs and help remaining workers produce more. counties by 2030.” Researchers at McKinsey & Co.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

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To that end, it has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. Patrick’s Day, the weekend, and the song of the week, The State of Massachusetts by the Dropkick Murphys. The company says it will announce its Scope 3 goals at the end of this year.

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What a Biden Presidency Could Mean for the Automotive Industry

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The NHTSA and EPA also set out to revoke the California Air Review Board’s (CARB) Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) waiver, which requires a specific percentage of each manufacturer’s sales to be made up of zero-emission vehicles. percent annual reduction from 2025 to 2030, the industry would need 2.8 The Future with Biden.