manufacturing

Tariffs will make it harder for American manufacturers to maintain low prices and expand output and hiring. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

Trump’s tariffs won’t bring back manufacturing jobs

Despite his commerce secretary's rose-tinted talk about millions of Americans “screwing in little screws to make iPhones,” US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs will not revive US...

Bangladesh faces uneven economic shift as manufacturing declines, services rise 
Economy

Bangladesh faces uneven economic shift as manufacturing declines, services rise 

An employee works on the production line at a factory of Chinese automaker JAC Motors in Weifang, Shandong province, China February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
China

China manufacturing activity grows for third straight month

Mir Shafi. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

Beyond FDI: Transforming Bangladesh into a global manufacturing powerhouse

Dr Yun K Tam and his Bangladeshi-Canadian wife Dr Nuzhat Tam-Zaman, co-founders of Sinoveda Canada Inc. Photo: Courtesy
Stocks

Canadian medicine researchers looking for manufacturing partner in Bangladesh 

A rice threshing machine. Photo: Collected
Agriculture

Naogaon emerges as thrasher manufacturing hub  

Ultrasonic Joining uses high-frequency, low-vibration sound waves to generate heat due to friction, eventually bonding wood with metal polymers. Photo: Collected
Tech

Glue-free bonding: Can sound waves and 3D printing replace industrial adhesives?

What does the EU’s new due diligence directive mean for Bangladesh?
Thoughts

What does the EU’s new due diligence directive mean for Bangladesh?

Foundry owners claim that no one in the country can match the work of Kaliganj or Boroitola’s work in making propellers. Photo caption: Rajib Dhar
Panorama

Low demand, high woes: A shrinking propeller business

Photo: TBS
Economy

Bangladesh needs to prepare for deeper tech use in manufacturing: Experts

A worker arranges eggs on a conveyer belt at Ruichang City Yixiang Agricultural Products factory in Ruichang, Jiangxi province, China May 30, 2023. REUTERS/David Kirton
World+Biz

Their parents made China the world's factory. Can the kids save the family business?

The good and the bad from the factory floor
Bloomberg Special

The good and the bad from the factory floor

Photo: Salahuddin Ahemd/TBS
Industry

Bangladesh to allow making motorcycles up to 500 cc but ban local use above 165 cc ones