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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

In this April 29, 2009, file photo, Don Wood, an official with the Strategic National Stockpile, awaits another truck load of medications in Salt Lake City, Utah during a swine flu outbreak from the H1N1 virus. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic prompted the largest use to date of the stockpile, which was created in 1999. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Some States Receives Expired Masks

Some of the equipment had been purchased during the H1N1 outbreak more than a decade ago

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Steelmaker to Shutter Plant

The Pennsylvania plant will close at the end of June.

A health care worker leaves Cedar Mountain Post Acute nursing facility in Yucaipa, Calif., Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The Southern California nursing home has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with more than 50 residents infected, a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state may peak more slowly than expected.

PPE Stockpile Nearly Depleted

Concerns about the stockpile levels were first reported by the Washington Post on Wednesday.

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Cannabis Stocks Surge

Sales last week increased more than two-fold in California.

Fire Rips Through Recycling Plant

Four separate buildings had collapsed and officials were trying to track down the building's owners to determine what was inside.

A worker completes an electric car ID.3 body at the assembly line during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG (VW) in Zwickau, eastern Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020.

VW Sued, Agrees to $912 Million

The settlement offer was negotiated with Germany’s consumer protection group VZBV, and Volkswagen called it “fair compensation.”

This Nov. 17, 2017, file photo shows a view inside an electric driverless shuttle produced by EasyMile, during an experiment, in Paris. The U.S. government's highway safety agency has ordered an autonomous shuttle company to stop carrying passengers in 16 U.S. cities after a mysterious braking problem occurred in Columbus, Ohio. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the suspension will remain in place while it examines safety issues with the low-speed shuttles operated by France-based EasyMile.

NHTSA Pauses Shuttle Program

The agency made the move after an EasyMile shuttle in Columbus braked suddenly, causing a passenger to suffer an injury.

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Shoe Company to Pay $69.5M

But a big chunk of the money, according to the manufacturer, will come its own lawsuit against 3M.

The massive fire at Northern Metal recycling in Becker, Minnesota, that has been burning for days, seemed to be under control Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 with massive piles of burned cars covered in ice. The Becker Police Department posted Thursday that “major progress' has been made and that fire crews report the fire is “under control at this point.”

Recycling Plant Fire Under Control

The fire at the Northern Metals plant in Becker has been belching noxious, billowing smoke since Tuesday.

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Police Find Underground Factory

Authorities say it had a complete production line.

This Sept. 19, 2014 file photo shows retail mogul Leslie Wexner, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. The CEO of the parent company of Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and other stores is in discussions to step down from the top post, according to The Wall Street Journal. Wexner has served as CEO of L Brands for more than five decades. The Wall Street Journal also says L Brands is considering strategic options for Victoria's Secret that could include a full or partial sale of the business, according to people familiar with the matter. L Brands said Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 it doesn't comment on rumors.

Victoria's Secret Sells for $1.1B

Sales are in decline because competition is increasing and tastes are changing.