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    Each month, we highlight manufacturing executives with ideas worth sharing, offering a unique story and a fresh approach to managing teams and operations in a transformative time.

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    Wabash Makes Big Changes That Are Starting to Pay Off

    Nov. 13, 2023
    The manufacturer of truck trailers and bodies is venturing into new territory with leadership adjustments and realignment.
    US Steel Corp.
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    US Steel Bets on Mini-Mills, EV Motors for Near-Term Sustainability

    July 24, 2023
    The steelmaker is on target to reduce emissions 20% by 2030, says chief strategy/sustainability director Richard Fruehauf. Getting to net zero by 2050 has a lot more variables...
    PPG
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    PPG CEO: Keeping up with Aerospace Demand, Innovating Around Energy Use

    July 5, 2023
    Tim Knavish, with 36 years at the global paint and coatings company, is very familiar with its footprint. 'I try to get out on the frontlines where we make stuff as much as possible...
    BMW Group
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    ‘We Transform While We Perform’: BMW Spartanburg Revs Up for the Shift to Electric

    June 8, 2023
    The president of BMW Manufacturing talks about the plant's $1.7 billion expansion and adding EVs to the assembly line.
    Nora Toure
    Profiles in Leadership

    Women in 3D Printing: ‘I Knew I Belonged in This Industry the Same Way Everyone Else Belonged’

    May 1, 2023
    How Nora Toure went from feeling like an outsider in Silicon Valley to building a community that now has 150 chapters around the world.

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    Alex Rodrigues, CEO of Embark Trucks, donated his 2022 salary and bonus to fund Little Robots.