John Raby

Associated Press

B2B Digital-Assisted Selling at Its Best

B2B Digital-Assisted Selling at Its Best

August 15, 2025

Hitachi booth at a trade show.

Hitachi Energy to Expand Manufacturing Operations in Tennessee

August 21, 2025

B2b Manufacturing Buyer Journey Study Cover

High-Value Manufacturing Purchases Undergoing Rapid Transformation

August 20, 2025

Hydro Graph Clean Power Inc

HydroGraph Expands U.S. Operations with New Austin Headquarters

August 20, 2025

B2B Digital-Assisted Selling at Its Best

B2B Digital-Assisted Selling at Its Best

These capabilities help sales teams close deals, empower buyers, and consolidate the sales process into one platform.

August 15, 2025

Factory

Cleveland-Cliffs Will Make Electrical Transformers at Shuttered West Virginia Tin Plant

As many as 600 union workers who were laid off will have the chance to work at the new facility.

July 23, 2024

United Auto Workers signs for a strike are shown at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023.

General Motors Reaches Tentative Agreement with UAW

The deal follows the pattern set with Ford last week and Jeep maker Stellantis over the weekend.

October 30, 2023

Battery

Electric Battery Maker to Locate Factory in Northern WVa

The plant will employ 350 workers.

August 31, 2022

UMW President Cecil Roberts said the agreement is a win-win for laid-off coal miners who will work in the facility, whose location has yet to be announced.

Electric Battery Maker, Coal Union Announce WV Labor Pact

At a factory that will produce cobalt-free batteries.

May 25, 2022

Nucor

Nucor Bringing $2.7B Mill, 800 Jobs to West Virginia

It will be able to produce up to 3 million tons of sheet steel per year.

January 12, 2022

Robert Murray, center, chief executive of Murray Energy Corp.

Bob Murray Retires as Board Chairman of US Coal Giant

Murray started Murray Energy Corp. in 1988.

October 21, 2020

In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007, file photo, Robert Murray, then-chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Crandall Canyon Mine, northwest of Huntington, Utah. Murray Energy Holdings’ approved Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan became effective Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The company completed the sale of its assets to an entity formed by former creditors. Murray was replaced as CEO in 2019 by Robert Moore, who will head the new company, Ohio-based American Consolidated Natural Resources Inc.

Coal Giant Exits Bankruptcy with New Name

The restructuring eliminated more than $8 billion of the company's debt and liabilities.

September 17, 2020

Cecil Roberts, president of United Mine Workers of America.

Coal Union Seeks Order Protecting Miners from Coronavirus

A petition from the union says mine ventilation regulations are not designed to prevent the spread of a virus.

June 17, 2020

In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, Don Blankenship listens to arguments in the West Virginia Supreme Court n Charleston, W.Va. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, a federal judge in West Virginia refused to toss the misdemeanor conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship for conspiring to violate mine safety laws.

Judge Won't Toss Blankenship's Conviction

Blankenship is the former CEO of Massey Energy, which owned a mine where a 2010 explosion killed 29 workers in southern West Virginia.

January 16, 2020

In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, photo, a North Carolina fraser fir Christmas tree is for sale in Lenoir, N.C. A Christmas tree shortage is being blamed on the Great Recession. Poor sales a decade ago, limited the number of trees planted, which are being harvested this year.

Christmas Tree Supplies Tight

The industry is still bouncing back from the Great Recession and trying to win people back from a shift toward artificial trees.

December 13, 2019