INDUSTRY

IndustryIn September 2017, a bank research team put a number on a fear that had been circulating for years: 3D printing, they projected, could wipe out roughly a quarter of…

IndustryThe room that gets all the headlines is a windowless box in Redmond where visitors report hearing their own blood move. It is genuinely the quietest place ever measured. It…

IndustryA machine that never complains is not a machine that is fine. It is a machine nobody is listening to. The whole premise of predictive maintenance is that equipment talks…

IndustryThe answer to "why now" is not a discovery or a shortage. It is a sequence of administrative decisions taken in Beijing between April 2025 and June 2026, each of…

IndustryIn 2025 Meta's Reality Labs division reported an operating loss of $19.2 billion, and the word metaverse more or less disappeared from consumer marketing. In the same period, Siemens built…

IndustryThe phrase does a lot of work. A ghost factory sounds like an empty shed humming away in the dark, and a small number genuinely are. But the change that…

IndustryOn 31 December 2025, Fastmarkets assessed the premium American buyers were paying for low-carbon domestic hot-rolled coil at exactly zero dollars. Two days later, the equivalent European differential sat at…

IndustryIn June 2025, ArcelorMittal walked away from 1.3 billion euros of German public money rather than build the hydrogen-based plants that money was meant to fund. Nobody had forced the…

IndustryThe processor in the phone on your desk spent longer in production than a car spends being designed for a facelift. Industry association figures put the journey from customer order…

IndustryIn June 2025 ArcelorMittal walked away from €1.3 billion of approved German subsidies rather than build two hydrogen-based steel plants it had spent years planning. Eleven months later, nine hydrogen…