An Ontario plastic packager has merged with a New York counterpart to form what’s being called the “largest plastic box manufacturer in North America.” Burlington, Ont.-based Transparent Packaging and Printex Packaging, of Islandia, N.Y., have announced the recent partnership, which creates Printex Transparent Packaging. David Heller, president of Printex Packaging Corporation and David Dennison, […]
Reshoring News
Much is made of so-called reshoring, the trend of manufacturing activity returning to the US from Asia, Eastern Europe and South America where it went in the ’90’s and 2000’s in search of low wages and what was seen as the Holy Grail of globalization. The big winner in Japan’s attempt to reshore jobs? Robots. […]
<!– Email var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:false}; Print Font Size: Default font size Larger font size –> Airbus, which sells lots of planes to U.S. airlines, opened its first plant in the country Monday. Actually, workers at the Mobile, Ala., facility already had started work on two A321 jetliners months ago. So that’s exciting. Big airplanes […]
Corn grows on a roadside farm in Wicomico County.(Photo: file photo) Re: “Shore moratorium good for bay, public health” Sept. 15 Ambiguous statement: A recent report from the Environmental Integrity Project found that in 2013, 93 poultry farms on the Eastern Shore applied 886,000 pounds of phosphorus to land in Maryland. So 886,000 pounds divided […]
Leading advanced machinist, Leicester Precision Components (LPC), has installed a second aqueous washing machine from MecWash as part of a £2,000,000 investment which includes expansion to its UK production facility. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday A […]
Metal components maker Multi-Stroke, based in Tipton, and castings company Thomas Dudley, used support from the Business Growth Service and Reshore UK to develop new tooling for Twistlock, which is used to secure containers. It is now made and delivered more effectively that it was with its previous supplier in China. Twistlock is […]
Innovation in tech education and job creation from the birthplace of hip hop Exit the subway. Walk by a check cashing service and under a freeway overpass, past some guys chatting on a stoop at three in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Across the street there is a hot dog factory and downstairs a methadone […]
Manufacturing Day is a nationwide initiative that recognizes the impact of manufacturing upon the U.S. economy, applauds manufacturing’s value to communities across the nation and raises awareness of high-paying manufacturing careers. Manufacturing Day efforts provide business leaders, legislators, educators, families, media, and the community at large with timely information about the innovations, technologies, career […]
