On Wednesday, Crown Paper Group announce that Will Lindsay would take the helm as Chief Executive Officer effective Dec. 19. Lindsay, who most recently served as senior director for global papers ...
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On Monday, FedEx Corp. announced it would launch FedEx Consolidated Returns, a low-priced, easy ecommerce returns option for merchants, in early 2023. The return program would allow merchants to p...
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On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would be providing Ultium Cells with $2.5 billion in loans to build battery cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. Th...
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Burrell Aviation joined Louisiana Gov. John Bell Edwards and other elected and local officials to celebrate its lease and development plans for 53 acres of runway-accessible land for the Baton Rouge M...
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On Thursday, Winchester and Western Railroad (W&W) announced it had signed an agreement to serve Commercial Metal Company’s (CMC) new West Virginia steel mill. The largest rebar manufacturer in ...
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Chicago-based Quantix announced Wednesday it would be reinforcing its geographic presence and building on its warehousing and trucking operations through its acquisition of Mid-States Packaging. Q...
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The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) recently urged the United States to shift its entire supply chain out of China. The call co...
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Atlanta-based Amplio announced Tuesday it had raised $6 million in seed funding to create a platform to increase supply chain resiliency that allows manufacturers to streamline material procurement. ...
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On Monday, PepsiCo announced it would double its global reusable packaging goal from 10 percent to 20 percent across all beverage servings. As part of the company's strategic, end-to-end business ...
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Envoy Solutions announced Thursday it had acquired Scranton-based Pennsylvania Paper & Supply Company, the company whose building is most famous for appearing in the opening credits of "The Office." ...
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed legislation to avert a freight rail strike that would have a devastating impact on the national economy. The measure will next head to President Joe Biden to be sign...
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Memphis International Airport recently completed the installation of 3.3 million-square-foot de-icing pads. The pads have the capability of de-icing 12 wide-body cargo aircraft simultaneously. A se...
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A majority of retailers (95 percent) believe they will not be able to fulfill consumers’ holiday needs this year, according to Coupa Software, a company that helps retail businesses control spending...
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ThroughPut Inc., an industrial AI company, announced Monday that it has partnered with project44 to create an AI-powered supply chain solution. The companies said, working together, they would cre...
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Global packaging company Amcor announced in its 2022 Sustainability Report that it would increase its target for recycled content to 30 percent by the end of the decade. The new, enhanced recycled...
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With the potential of a freight rail strike looming and only narrowly evaded earlier this year, a new economic analysis undertaken by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) added weight to calls for rec...
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The first venture-backed business-to-business marketplace for primary packaging, Impacked, announced this week that it successfully raised $2.5 million in seed funding through a round led by TenOneTen...
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The supply chain is diverse, multifaceted, and often hopelessly fragmented across time and capabilities, but Microsoft attempted to wade into it this week with the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, a n...
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project44, a global Chicago-based supply chain visibility platform, recently raised $80 million in funding. This raises the platform’s value to $2.7 billion, 12 percent higher than in January. Th...
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A new survey has found that 90 percent of companies have not moved to automation or have only partially moved to automation, something it says could stall the global supply chain transformation. T...
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