(Natural News) Last year was a really bad year for factory fires, according to a new report. Some 1,946 factory fire alerts were issued in 2021 by Resilinc, which describes itself as “the world’s leading supply chain risk monitoring and mapping solution.” Supply chain disruptions were up 88 percent year-over-year, the group says, and 90 […]

(Natural News) Rising electricity costs threaten to collapse Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi, which would result in the closure of as many as 40,000 factories. Energy inflation is so severe in Pakistan that nine business groups and counting have already notified the government that something needs to be done immediately or else an economic disaster […]

(Natural News) The latest report from the Department of Commerce revealed that factory orders in American factories dropped by 0.4 percent in December. This is the largest month-to-month drop since April 2020. Initial forecasts by economic analysts believed factory orders would only drop by 0.2 percent. New data from the Commerce Department has also shown that factory orders […]

(Natural News) Just one day after gross domestic product (GDP) data showed substantial manufacturing growth in the first quarter of the current financial year, factories around the world reported that global supply lines continue to collapse. The data firm HIS Markit published the results of a new survey which found that production, delivery and distribution […]

(Natural News) Large corporations are now taking advantage of their power and influence to communicate their positions on social issues, whether it’s about the environment, perceived inequalities or human rights issues. Using social media and marketing campaigns, corporations are trying to be the face of social change and cast their companies as socially responsible. But […]

(Natural News) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty, a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan who is leading in polls in Tennessee ahead of the November elections, laid out a vision last week to not only recapitalize American industry but to force China to accept responsibility for the global coronavirus pandemic […]

(Natural News) The Chinese government has taken control over factory lines producing critical medical equipment and protective gear, according to China-based American traders, stoking fear and speculation over a possible wave of new COVID-19 infections. New York native Moshe Malamud, who has been doing business in China for well over two decades now, said in […]

(Natural News) Just one day after their reopening, global automobile company Ford temporarily shut down two of its North American factories after several of its employees tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The Chicago Assembly plant, which makes some of Ford’s more profitable models such as the new 2020 Ford Explorer, Lincoln Aviator and […]

(Natural News) Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee is set to introduce a bill that will help American companies move their manufacturing from China back to the United States. The bill builds on calls for the country to “decouple” from the former as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Talking to the Epoch Times, Green said that his forthcoming bill would allow […]

(Natural News) If Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout China at its current rate and the government finds no good way to control it, millions of workers are going to be laid off from their jobs as two-thirds of small-to-medium businesses fail. According to a Google translation of a Yahoo! Taiwan story, the virus […]