LOS ANGELES - If in mid-summer you went onto the top of the Grocery Outlet supermarket in Stockton, California, and placed your hand on the strange, glossy black panels you found there, you’d be shocked to find they were as cold to the touch as a basement fuse box. Installed by a company called SkyCool
LANSING - U.S. Great Lakes ports and the St. Lawrence Seaway handled a deluge of cement, iron ore, petcoke and steel in July supporting the continuing resurgence of manufacturing both in North America and globally. According to the latest figures, St. Lawrence Seaway cargo volumes from March 22 to July 31 totaled 16.7 million metric
Most manufacturers have experienced sales slumps at one time or another. When it happens, it’s vital to get your sales team’s heads back in the game and find a solution to the problem. The company’s website is one of the first places you can look for clues to the problem. Here are some things
DETROIT - Michigan Works! Southeast is offering virtual information sessions next week to help businesses access grant opportunities through the Going PRO Talent Fund. On the morning of August 27th and again on August 31st in the afternoon, employers will learn about the requirements and best practices for the 2022 Going PRO Talent Funds, increasing
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Cyber Patriot program works with middle and high school students to introduce them to careers as cyber professionals. The virtual program is lead by Tamara Shoemaker, who for 17 years has worked at the University of Detroit-Mercy in its cybersecurity program. Tamara announced on the show she is taking a
LANSING – A new report contends more than 113,400 Michiganders worked in clean energy and clean vehicles at the end of 2020, but due to the impact of COVID-19, the 2020 total represents a 9.5 percent decrease from 2019, or 11,900 jobs. The report from Environmental Entrepreneurs and Clean Energy Trust comes as Congress and
SAN DIEGO - Robert Teglia bought a Tesla Model 3 sedan even though he knew it cost more than many luxury cars. He didn’t particularly care that it might be better than the others for the environment. Teglia, a commercial real estate appraiser in San Diego, tallied the costs of a gasoline vehicle and a
SAN FRANCISCO - If you’ve been reading Gizmodo for awhile, you’ve probably realized that I’m bullish on flexible displays, due in large part to their ability to expand or enhance the capabilities of smartphones, laptops, and even smartwatches (OK, that last one’s a little iffy). So after I reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 last year, I decided
TRAVERSE CITY - Magna International Inc. CEO Seetarama Kotagiri got right to the point in discussing the implications of an increasingly electrified vehicle fleet on the global automotive supply chain. Speaking as a keynote at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Management Briefing Seminars last week, Kotagiri started detailing the issue almost immediately as he took
LANSING - The MPSC has encouraged Michigan's investor-owned electric utilities to propose pilot programs for integrating batteries and other energy storage devices that take electricity from the grid and store it for later use as the Commission works to implement the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order No. 841 of 2018 (Case No. U-21032). FERC's Order No. 841 seeks to
