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With a tax burden that is 32 percent lower than the national average, ground-breaking economic development investment funds, its own power grid, histo...

Consumer demands, global sourcing challenges and limited capacity across multiple transportation modes force every retailer to take continuous looks a...

Despite business pressures from record fuel prices, skyrocketing health care costs and new technologies, warehouse-based logistics firms are thriving ...

With recent headline-grabbing locations and expansions like Nissan, Northrop Grumman, FedEx and, most recently, SeverCorr, Mississippi has been on a h...

The use of the Foreign-Trade Zones program by U.S.-based manufacturers of computer-related peripheral products provides an instructive example of how ...

Taking a look inside Tennessee is like opening a box of chocolates. There’s an assortment and variety that can only be discovered when one takes a bit...

The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more than $310 billion in annual shipments, and the plastics processing sector alo...

As the Federal Reserve recently reported that overall industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in July after a much faster 0.8 percent rise in June,...

In the always-evolving world of manufacturing, it’s important to stay ahead of the competition. New and innovative products are being discovered and p...

This article examines (a) current/emerging status of manufacturing in the U.S.; (b) predominant locational influences for siting new production facili...