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The Association for Manufacturing Excellence has launched a pair of education-based programs geared toward attracting students to manufacturing careers: the Adopt a School Initiative and the Dr. Sherrie Ford Manufacturing as a Career Path Scholarship....More

The expansion project doubles the Pulaski, N.Y. facility output, and has retained and created 290 full-time and contract positions....More

U.S. manufacturers ordered $354.40 million worth of new machine tools and related technology during February, a decline of 6.6% from January, and a similar 6.2% decline from February 2013....More

Chemical industry trade groups file a federal lawsuit against Canadian Pacific over the rail carrier's decision to require rail cars hauling certain chemicals to comply with new safety standards beginning this week....More

By creating a new division to produce products missing in market, JWF Industries is on track to become a large player in the hydraulic fracturing industry....More

Willy Shih is still worried. Five years ago, the Harvard Business School professor and his colleague Gary Pisano wrote that "restoring the ability of enterprises to develop and manufacture high-technology products in America --is the only way the country can hope to pay down its enormous deficits and maintain, let alone raise, its citizens' standard of living."...More

“I would urge other manufacturers to come to Houston, to take advantage of the available workforce, strong investment climate and lack of state taxes,” says Goya Foods CEL Bob Unanue explains. “Soon prices of resources will start climbing. “...More

The media spent a good portion of early 2014 talking about the weather, and some of it for good reason. Extreme weather during the first two months of the year dropped temperatures well below seasonal normal in wide swaths of the country. Linking the poor weather to tough economic data, while a natural progression, was perhaps reaching too far....More

A Senate bill to expand the creation of manufacturing research hubs cleared its first hurdle April 9 when it was passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee....More

To reduce logistics costs, start by looking at the entire supply chain and focus on how logistics and transportation affects all functions....More