Capacity/Facilities

Miners are turning to machine learning, cutting-edge chemistry and other innovative means to increase the supply of critical materials such as copper and graphite amid the rising demand for green technologies. In 2011, Nico Cuevas, a…

The world’s largest freight forwarder by revenue has big plans for growth even as freight volumes and rates slump. Stefan Paul, chief executive of Switzerland-based Kuehne + Nagel International AG, is pushing…

More companies are exploring ways to staff warehouses with robots but may have to wait a few years for the technology to catch up.More than a fifth of warehouse operators have invested in automation to help address labor shortages,…

The U.S. warehousing market is retrenching heading into 2023, a turnaround from the pandemic-driven boom in industrial real-estate demand as companies slow down decisions on new storage and distribution space amid…

Deep-sea mining for battery materials has gained significant interest over the past year, but 2023 is set to be a key turning point—both for the practice itself and the companies that are leading the campaign to exploit the ocean…

Online pet retailer Chewy Inc. plans to open more automated fulfillment centers in 2023 to control costs and raise efficiency, which could help the company repurpose certain capital spending, its finance chief…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2023 wants to get closer to finalizing key rules, ranging from companies sharing more details on cryptocurrency holdings to breaking out certain expenses on income statements. The upshot: A wave…

Stores’ self-checkout machines can annoy shoppers with error messages about unexpected items in the bagging area and other hiccups. But for some disabled people, they are often unusable. Blind people can have trouble navigating the…

WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — In a brightly lighted warehouse tucked along an industrial road about 45 minutes east of Boston, a yellow-plated, gooseneck-like mechanical arm stretched one recent morning and plucked a plastic jar holding a powdered…

Prologis Inc. is pulling back on building new warehouses without tenants already signed on, as the world’s largest developer of logistics properties braces for a potential economic downturn.The shift away from…