Solved! Hands-free Door Opening
Under pressure to create a start-up for class, University of Minnesota senior Max Arndt engineered a simple foot lever to free hands from germs. Meet the Toe... Read more
Manufacturing Industry News
Recent Manufacturing Industry News Articles
Manufacturers and Retailers Rebounded in December
Two industries battered during the recent recession are showing signs of renewed vitality—and fueling an economic recovery, the Fed reports. Read more
A Liability Case Reaches the Supreme Court
A New Jersey employee severed four fingers while using a device manufactured abroad. The Supreme Court will determine if a New Jersey court has jurisdiction ... Read more
The Growing Cost of Doing Business in China
Small businesses such as Olive Juice and Gonzo Games grapple with rising prices. Read more
The Many Identities of Elon Musk
Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, SpaceX, Telsa Motors, and Solar City, is a man who wears many hats. Here's a look at his multifaceted life. View slideshow
10 Quality Management Tools
The ability to constantly improve quality is a hallmark of a successful business. Here's the smart way to do it. Read more
Your New Printable Home
Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <... Read more
America's Fastest-Growing Manufacturing Company
A devastating fire was hardly a setback for Intergroup International CEO Neil Gloger, whose company grew 1,285 percent in three years. Read more
How to Find a Contract Manufacturer in China
One young entrepreneur explains what he learned by quitting his job and hopping on a one-way flight to China. Read more
How to Make More Manufacturers
Plenty of Americans have the desire to make actual stuff, not just software. What they lack are the tools. We should help them. Read more
PortionPac: The World's Coolest Chemical Company
PortionPac's worker-friendly environment consists of fine art and palm trees. Did we mention it's a chemical factory? View slideshow
Searching for the Great American Craftsman
Photographer Tadd Myers spent a year training his lens on entrepreneurs who do things the way they've always been done. View slideshow
Tesla Employees Killed In Silicon Valley Plane Crash
Three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors were on board a plane that crashed in Palo Alto, California, killing all on board. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tol... Read more
The Great Leaders Series: Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Not only did he build one of the largest automobile manufacturers, he set in motion a series of changes that would change society as a whole. Read more
Case Study: A Hot-Tub Maker Hits Hard Times
Bob Hallam of Dimension One Spas is struggling along with the rest of the hot tub industry. Can he come up with some new products to revive his company? Read more
The Future of Manufacturing
A New Zealand company called Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st century. Read more
How to Start a Beauty Company
If you have smarts, style, and nerve, then Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics says that you could hit it big Read more
Business for Sale: A Motorcycle-Seat Manufacturer
Mike Corbin, who built his custom motorcycle seat business from scratch over four decades, is ready to cash out. Will he get $11.5 million? Read more
Why a CEO Needs to Have a Plan B
For nearly three decades, in good times and bad, Jack Stack has run his company, SRC, as though disaster could strike at any moment. Now, with the economy cr... Read more
An Olympic Shutdown?
Beijing's Olympic dreams may be a nightmare for U.S. companies Read more
Keep Running: A Company in Search of the Finish Line
The founders of Newton Running believed they could shove their way into the running-shoe business. And so they did. Now, where the heck is that finish line? Read more
How to Get Ahead in China
When Mitch Free first went... Read more
Christmas All Year Round 
CEO Fred Schwam takes us inside his workshop, which designs holiday decorations for Radio City Music Hall, Saks Fifth Avenue, and other New York City land... Watch video
Would You Buy a Chinese Car from This Man?
Malcom Bricklin is on a quest to revolutionize the auto industry at 14,845 words per hour. Read more
The Power of Listening
How does an old-line manufacturer in a stagnant industry manage to grow 25% a year for 10 years? By taking its employees seriously. Read more
How I Got VC Money: Ed Jaeger
How a company that manufactures protective gloves raised venture capital Read more
Leave No Stone Unturned
How a manufacturer got serious about customer complaints, devising a detailed form and database system to get to the root of each problem. Read more
Sweatshops, Free Trade Force Owner to Call It Quits
The story of how a manufacturing company failed under pressures from GATT, NAFTA, and sweatshops. Read more
The Enemy Within
An explanation of how the base of manufacturing suppliers is crumbling in the U.S. and how to reverse this trend. Read more
Growth Strategies: Touch of Glass
A company provides its customers with custom machinery for bottling and packaging, along with some surprising pluses. Read more
Thinking Small
Thinking Small. MINIMILLS PRODUCE 20% OF American steel, and they are one of the few bright spots in a dismal industry. Now a similar trend toward minimills ... Read more
