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Every week, we cover the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward. This week:

- Rivian Reportedly Laying Off 600 Workers

- The Six-Pound Case That Wants to Change How You Use Your Phone

- Why You Just Saw the World’s Largest Playable Gaming Screen Carried by a Helicopter in Miami

- Former Employees Reopening Shuttered Gunite Factory 

- Up to 28,000 Pounds of Explosives Detonated in Deadly Factory Accident in Tennessee

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