Washington —Michigan and Ohio’s U.S. senators urged the Obama administration Tuesday to investigate unfair foreign trade practices and defend manufacturing jobs at Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. In a letter to the U.S. Commerce Department, Sens. Carl Levin, D-Detroit; Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, asked the government to enforce trade […]

At a luncheon for the delegation, the president of the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM), Alex Monchusi briefed the delegates about Botswana’s favourable business environment; the relatively low corporate tax of 15 percent for manufacturing companies and laws that provide for a full repatriation of profits and dividends abroad by foreign firms […]

I think we’ve all heard that there is some onshoring of manufacturing going on? That is, some companies are finding that China and the Far East just isn’t as cheap as either they thought or as it used to be and thus manufacturing processes are being brought back to the US or Europe? While this […]

Sunday, June 3, 2012 By PAUL COLLINS – Bulletin Staff Writer The Dan River Regional Collaborative, a regional work force development group, is taking part in an initiative promoting manufacturing as a career. Julie Brown, project director with DRRC, said the group is collaborating with Virginia Manufacturers Association’s “Dream It. Do It. Virginia” campaign. The […]