Tory mayor slams Melrose over closure of GKN’s last remaining British car parts factory By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 8 February 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 8 February 2021 West Midlands mayor Andy Street has condemned the owners of GKN over the decision to close its last car parts plant … Read more
Rolls-Royce hoping to prevent further rounds of job losses by shutting its factories for first time ever this summer The aerospace giant will close plants in its jet engine division for two weeks to save cash on salaries, energy and other costs Dates for the two-week shutdown have not been decided yet by chief executive … Read more
Honda halts production at its Swindon factory for the second time in weeks due to ‘global supply issues’ Honda confirms ‘some production activities’ halted for Tuesday and Wednesday Citing ‘global supply issues’, the firm says production should restart on Thursday This is the second time production has been halted in as many months as Covid … Read more
Say cheese! Cuban authorities arrest factory workers for stealing almost 3,000 pounds of cheese, most of which was sold on the black market Authorities in Holguín, Cuba, apprehended four factory workers who allegedly stole 2,945 pounds of cheese The suspects were arrested transporting 1,485 pounds of cheese in a vehicle Cuban officials say the stolen … Read more
Workers riot at Indian iPhone factory after going ‘four months without pay and being asked to work extra shifts’ Cars were overturned and set on fire while glass was smashed during the rioting The violence broke out at a Wistron facility where workers say wages are unpaid The Taiwan-based supplier makes iPhone handsets on the … Read more
Snakes put the brakes on Tesla: Work on new Berlin electric car factory stalls because of sleeping reptiles By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 GMT, 8 December 2020 | Updated: 21:58 GMT, 8 December 2020 Tesla has revealed plans to raise £3.8billion as its work to build a German factory ran into … Read more
Ineos Automotive, the vehicle division belonging to British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has today confirmed that it has bought a car factory in France from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4×4 there in late 2021. The acquisition of the Hambach plant will ‘safeguards 1,300 jobs that might otherwise have been lost’ in the … Read more
Nigerian ‘baby factory’ where men were hired to impregnate women before the newborns were sold is busted with ten victims rescued including four bearing children Police rescued four children and six women – four of whom were found pregnant The operation was carried out in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state Police said … Read more
Inside China’s iPhone factory: Fascinating footage shows Apple components being made in a fully automated plant manned by robots The manufacturer in southern China’s Shenzhen is entirely staffed by robots Fascinating footage shows an self-driving vehicle moving in the dark room The automated plant is dubbed ‘lights-out’ factory with AI-powered machines It can save costs … Read more
Terrifying moment huge plumes of black smoke billow into the sky as massive fire rips through a Chinese factory The blaze erupted this morning at a factory in south-eastern China’s Fuzhou city Footage shows huge clouds of smoke rising above the site swallowed by flames Over 100 firefighters and dozens of fire trucks were called … Read more