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1. WEEK 43 IN MANUFACTURING
NEWS

2. Research: US Manufacturers Digitizing at Twice the Rate of Other Businesses;
2020 Global Trade Data Reveals Insights About Future of Manufacturing Sector;
Making Sustainability Part of Manufacturing; With Covid-19 Under Control,
China’s Economy Surges Ahead.

3. On Tuesday, Alibaba.com, the B2B business unit of Alibaba Group, announced the results of
its Alibaba.com U.S. B2B Small and Medium Business (SMB) Survey and launched a new
Digitization Sprint for U.S. SMB manufacturers – a traditionally analog segment of SMBs that
has been digitizing at twice the rate of other industries during the pandemic – to support
manufacturers as they accelerate their digitization.
Source: Manufacturing.net
Research: US Manufacturers Digitizing at
Twice the Rate of Other Businesses

4. Imports fluctuate. The manufacturing industry is well aware of this fact. However, 2020 has
taken everyone by surprise. Imports into the United States have had to deal with a lot, from
pandemics to uncertain government elections. These trends are important to understand as
companies need to plan for 2021 and beyond.
Source: Thomasnet
2020 Global Trade Data Reveals Insights
About Future of Manufacturing Sector

5. While coping with the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed other manufacturing issues to the
side, in the long-term those issues remain. One is making manufacturing more sustainable.
Broad policy changes will be needed to achieve this goal, but so will many individual efforts
by companies to change how things are made.
Source: SME
Making Sustainability Part of Manufacturing

6. As most of the world still struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, China is showing once
again that a fast economic rebound is possible when the virus is brought firmly under
control.
The Chinese economy surged 4.9 percent in the July-to-September quarter compared with
the same months last year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on
Monday. The robust performance brings China almost back up to the roughly 6 percent
pace of growth that it was reporting before the pandemic.
Source: The New York Times
With Covid-19 Under Control, China’s
Economy Surges Ahead

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