Successfully Evaluating Labor Force for a New Manufacturing Facility
Manufacturing has been a very important component of the U.S. economy for decades, providing quality jobs and marketable skills to millions of America...
Articles
Manufacturing in a Flatter World
The world is flatter than it used to be. But it isn’t entirely flat, even though the title of a best-selling book (Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat...
Alabama's Diamond Days
When Alabama Governor Bob Riley called Alabama Development Office Director Neal Wade in May to inform him that ThyssenKrupp had decided to locate it’s...
Minority Manufacturing in FTZs - A Key to Job Retention in the US
Multinational Manufacturing Corporations (MMC) commitment to supplier diversity could drive a solution for meeting both need for their global competit...
Ports Innovate to Accomodate Rising Trade Volumes and Stimulate Inland Development
If you were to mark their positions on a map, gateway ports, inland ports, distribution centers and development zones would resemble a constellation. ...
Kansas...A Place Where Opportunities for Success are As Big As You Think.
In January 2004, the Kansas Legislature convened for what would become the state’s most active lawmaking session in years. The session resulted in a n...
Utah... Its' Business Community and Workforce Builds Success
In Utah, economic development starts at the top. Jon Huntsman, Jr., Utah's Governor, believes in the primacy of economic development for the state's f...
Tax & Incentive Strategies for Manufacturing Operations
Today’s manufacturers are under constant pressure to cut costs and operate more efficiently. With global competition showing no signs of abating, manu...
Tennessee: From Paper to Power: Tennessee Focuses on Performance Excellence
“We have a guiding leadership principle in Tennessee that we like to call ‘from paper to power’,” said Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen. “This simple ...
News from NAM
U.S. manufacturing is threatened by the rising cost and shrinking supply of chemicals that are necessary to make things, according to a new report by ...