By Tony Gunn | The WorldWide Machinist Ask somebody what they think of when you say South American manufacturing. Coffee? Agriculture? Raw materials? Maybe a container ship leaving port with something that gets turned into the “real product” somewhere else. That picture needs an update. I spent the week moving through Argentina and Colombia, visiting manufacturers, talking with people on shop floors, attending an industrial show, and seeing what companies here are actually bu

A syringe filled precisely in Charlotte. A century-old textile town in Virginia rebuilt around advanced manufacturing. Tony Gunn explores two very different stories of American manufacturing innovation — one hidden in your medicine cabinet, one growing out of the ashes of Dan River Mills.

By Tony Gunn | The WorldWide Machinist Italy gives the world art, food, fashion, cars, architecture, and coffee strong enough to make your ancestors answer emails. But spend a week with the people I just spent the week with — and you'll start to suspect Italy's greatest export isn't any of that. It's industrial obsession. This week took me through four Italian manufacturing stories that genuinely don't exist anywhere else on the planet. A company that's been operating since b

Four companies. Four families. One city. Tony Gunn goes inside Avinent, Mikalor, Bonastre, and Createch Medical to discover how Barcelona manufacturing innovation is quietly changing lives one precision component at a time.

By Tony Gunn | The WorldWide Machinist Germany doesn't manufacture. Germany obsesses. I just wrapped up one of the most intense weeks of factory tours I've done in a long time. Six stops. Back-to-back. Across some of the most serious precision manufacturing facilities on the planet — all as part of Jan Votteler's German tour. Every shop had a different specialty. Every team had a different story. But by the time I walked out of the last one, I realized they were all telling t