State officials and manufacturing execs hope to send the message that the industry’s days of smoke-filled factories are being replaced by greater opportunities, higher salaries and cleaner technology. “It not only pays well, but we’re very competitive at it,” Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki told the Herald. “We make things in Massachusetts […]

Email to a friend Permalink Saturday, April 26, 2014 GoLocalWorcester Business Team Massachusetts manufacturers and industry supporters will convene for the second annual statewide Advanced Manufacturing Summit on Tuesday, April 29 at the DCU Center in Worcester. The event, which is hosted by the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, is intended to further Governor Deval Patrick Administration’s […]

As World War II came to a close, manufacturing in Connecticut employed close to half the state’s working population. Now it accounts for only eleven percent of employment. That dramatic decline over half a century is due to one irresistible force: off-shoring, and the loss of work to cheaper labor markets in Asia. But that force […]

SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. – (EINPresswire via NewMediaWire) – April 24, 2014 – The world of plastic manufacturing has come a long way since the 1860s — and rapidly growing companies like First American Plastic are proof. While John Wesley Hyatt may not have realized it when he first experimented with cellulose nitrate in the late […]