Boeing resumed 787 operations at Boeing South Carolina (BSC), with most workers returning May 3 and May 4. The return includes all operations that were temporarily suspended on April 8 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic shut down or slowed down businesses across the nation, the defense industrial base was among the first to get help from Congress. But, as this article from Air Force Magazine is quick to point out, it may not come back as it was as Congress rethinks its priorities.

A partnership will invest $53.75 million to establish Iran’s first silicon production factory. Once operational, the country can utilize the factory’s capacity for aluminum and solar-panel production.

According to industry experts, aging infrastructure could be hurting operations at steel mills in northwestern Indiana. As examples, an explosion at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor damaged a furnace and Gary Works had to temporarily shut down its blast furnaces after severe flooding.

NASA is building the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) from parts recycled from retired U.S. Air Force planes, including the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The goal of this NASA effort is to create a plane capable of supersonic flight without rattling windows and disrupting the lives of people on the ground.

If you are interested in this question, you will want to read this article. How AM will disrupt forging is different from how it is affecting casting. Authors suggest that directed energy deposition (DED) is the area to watch.

Ball Corporation recently announced that they earned the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certification for all 23 of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) beverage-can plants.

The Department of Energy’s Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designed, built and tested a powerful new magnet based on an advanced superconducting material. The magnet – about eight tons and as long as a semi-truck trailer – set a field-strength record.

Oklo, a developer of a micro nuclear reactor design, has become the first of the so-called "advanced reactors" to submit a combined construction and operating license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo's Aurora reactor would only be 1.5 MW in capacity versus others at 200-300 MW.

Realizing that an industrial 3D printer would be too expensive and wouldn’t meet their needs, a Georgia Southern professor and two students built their own, which is still being fine-tuned.