#manufacturing-decline

#manufacturing-decline

After 116 years in Berkeley, Walter Mork Company is closing its doors. The custom metal fabrication shop has survived two world wars, the Great Depression, and countless ups and downs in the economy. Twenty U.S. presidents have been elected since Walter Mork, a Finnish immigrant, opened the shop in West Berkeley in 1909. And four generations of the Mork family have worked there.

UK car and van production has fallen to its lowest level since 1953, with car output down 7.3% and van production down 45%. The sector faces uncertainty from tariffs and factory closures.

Britain's economy unexpectedly shrank in May, fueled by sharp declines in manufacturing and construction, as the country faced a second month of contraction.