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LORAIN, Ohio — Absolute Machine Tools Inc. has purchased its Lorain facility and plans to expand the building, a move expected to double the company’s warehouse capacity and reduce its reliance on an ...

Melbourne’s new staff-free 7-Eleven is all vending machines and no humans — but is it really convenient, or just a pricey, point-less, noisy detour? Reporter Tom Winch went inside to find out. Because ...

Because that’s essentially what it is: a convenience store made up entirely of vending machines. Not futuristic robotic dispensers, not Amazon-style smart shelves — just the exact same vending ...

Fans of the popular collectible toy retailer Pop Mart — maker of Labubus and other hot collectible toys — no longer will have to drive out of Modesto to get the latest figurines and plushies, or worry ...

Purchases of capital equipment by U.S. machine shops and other manufacturers fell to $387.3 million in July, down-9.5% from June but still 20.1% higher than the July 2024 result. The strength of the ...

On a breezy San Francisco afternoon last Saturday, I found myself at a nondescript coworking space filled with shoeless coders. Just over a hundred visitors had crowded into an office building in the ...

One of the great architects of the Industrial Revolution, Henry Maudslay was fuelled by an unrelenting drive to standardise machines and refine the mechanical processes of the time. For anyone caring ...

More aggressive feature scaling and increasingly complex transistor structures are driving a steady increase in process complexity, increasing the risk that a specified pattern may not be ...

U.S. manufacturers’ orders for new machining equipment slipped to $444.9 million in April, down -12.7% from March. However, as noted by AMT - the Assn. for Manufacturing Technology, the new figure is ...

The global supply chain realignment away from China is expected to accelerate, driven by the tariff war between the world’s largest consumer — the US — and the world’s largest producer — China. This ...