Battery Manufacturer Fined for False ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Claims

A Florida battery manufacturer is the first company to be sanctioned under a rule cracking down on products falsely labeled “Made in the U.S.A.”

Lithionics Battery LLC of Clearwater was ordered to pay more than $105,000 for violating the new Federal Trade Commission rule.

Federal officials said that...

Energy researchers invent chameleon metal that acts like many others

A team of energy researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has invented a groundbreaking device that electronically converts one metal into behaving like another to use as a catalyst for speeding chemical reactions. The fabricated device, called a "catalytic condenser," is the first to demonstrate that alternative...

Shifting supply chains settle on Mexico

China is still the manufacturer to the world, accounting for 28.7% of global manufacturing output in 2019. But after a pandemic, a trade war and rising wages in China, many manufacturers have been looking for other options.

One increasingly strong option is Mexico.

First, a look at supply chain problems.

“It used to take 21 days for merchandise from China to come to the port of LA or port of Long Beach and get to our warehouses. Today, it takes...