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The metals industry is a broad manufacturing industry comprising activities from pipe manufacturing, rolling of steel, drawing of metals, and secondar...

Those of us in manufacturing are like everyone else these days – we wake up each morning and wonder what mind-boggling news awaits us about our econom...

The saying “everything is bigger in Texas” is no exaggeration when it comes to the state’s red hot economy. While the national economy is cooling, thi...

For more than four centuries, Virginia has built a legacy on the spirit of enterprise. A strong, educated workforce, an excellent quality of life, a s...

There is a bumper sticker that says, “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.” Frankly, many economists and government officials are hoping ...

IWLA is the unified voice of the warehouse logistics industry, representing third-party logistics companies (3PLs) and warehouse service providers. Ou...

As one of Fortune magazine’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies, RTI International Metals counts aerospace giants Boeing and Airbus among its customers...

It’s certainly not news that manufacturing in America has been under growing cost and competitive pressure for some time. Coupled with the current eco...

Mark Twain’s comment upon reading his own obituary applies perfectly to American manufacturing in 2008. “The reports of my death have been greatly exa...

In January, the Kansas Legislature convened with an eye toward expanding the state’s economic development toolbox, something it had done during each o...