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Brussels Attacks: What You Need to Know

Elementum

Multiple explosions rocked Brussels , the capital city of Belgium, on Tuesday, leaving 34 dead and more than 230 injured, many in critical condition. Volkswagen Group’s unit, Audi, temporarily halted its car production at its Brussels manufacturing plant, located in the residential district of Forest.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

state of New York. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. Akorn Operating Company filed for bankruptcy in 2020 but had continued to manufacture albuterol until last fall. state of Maryland.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Furthermore, by making the warehouse a retail centre in its own right, warehouses are getting a new lease of life as end-customer distribution outlets, whether or not just-in-time methods are being used.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the most surprising new addition, at least to me is supply chain (the chain of processes, businesses, etc. by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). And now on to this week’s logistics news. Railroad strike averted.

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Seeing is Believing: Debunking the Myths of 3D Printing at Materialise

NC State SCRC

I spent a fascinating day visiting the Materialize 3D Printing headquarters in Leuven, Belgium yesterday. First of all, 3D printing is not new; it has been around for more then 25 years, and is a fairly robust technology. The terms rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and and additive manufacturing are all terms for the same process.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an article recently about a cargo flight headed to Belgium from New York that had to turn around mid-flight. The pilot called air traffic control in Boston and reported: “We don’t have a problem as of flying-wise but we need to return, return back to New York. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Will Climate Change Force Agriculture Indoors?

Enterra Insights

” They point out that 12 million hectares is approximately four times the size of Belgium. ”[5] Austin Webb, co-founder of Fifth Season along with his brother Brac and Austin Lawrence, views indoor farming as a new form of manufacturing. We just happen to manufacture living organisms.”[6]