Industry Intel

Andrew Ratchford
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Weekly briefing on site selection, economic development, and industrial news

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  1. 3d ago

    Week of Jun 28 - Jul 05, 2026

    BMW completes its .7B Spartanburg expansion and Cal-Maine settles an egg price-fixing case, plus site-selection scorecards and 2026 metro rankings, billion-dollar deals from Rocket Lab-Iridium to CMA CGM-FedEx, and USMCA back in limbo.

  2. Jun 27

    Week of Jun 20-27, 2026

    A record year for industrial M&A and a 35 billion dollar defense order, the skilled-trades workforce squeeze, and a robotics and semiconductor building wave.

  3. Jun 20

    Week of Jun 13-20, 2026

    Amazon's billion Missouri data center campus, a wave of foreign direct investment landing in the U.S., and automakers pivoting into defense manufacturing.

  4. Jun 14

    Week of Jun 07-14, 2026

    Ingredion's .6 billion deal for Tate and Lyle, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaking ground across the South, and the workforce academies racing to staff the industrial build-out.

  5. Jun 7

    Week of May 31 - Jun 7, 2026

    USA Rare Earth's .2B South Carolina magnet plant, a wave of billion-dollar rail and transit tunnels, and the AI data-center boom straining the PJM power grid.

  6. May 31

    Week of May 24-31, 2026

    This week: the talent barrier behind the industrial AI boom, a wave of billion-dollar plant and lab investments, and a state suing an automaker over a factory that never got built.

  7. May 23

    Week of May 16-23, 2026

    USG stakes $1.1 billion on a Texas gypsum plant, a wave of foreign manufacturers breaks ground on US soil, and Washington routes $2 billion in fresh CHIPS Act funding to nine chipmakers.

  8. May 18

    Week of May 11-15, 2026

    Toyota and USG drop a combined $3.2B on new Texas plants, manufacturing workforce shortages tighten across the apprenticeship pipeline, and the AI grid stress reshapes utility politics.

  9. May 11

    Week of May 4-10, 2026

    This week's Industry Intel covers 276 stories across site selection, economic development, and industrial real estate. The deep dive focuses on Foreign Direct Investment — including major inbound manufacturing announcements, how tariff uncertainty is reshaping FDI flows, and what site selectors need to know about siting projects with foreign sponsors.

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Weekly briefing on site selection, economic development, and industrial news

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    Andrew Ratchford
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