by Daniel Whateley | May 13, 2019 | Manufacturing, Uncategorized
Launched in 2016, Rhode Island’s Block Island Wind Farm is the country’s first and only operational offshore site. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL) In 2014, Gulf Island Fabrication, a U.S. manufacturing company that builds support structures for offshore...
by Olivia Raimonde | May 10, 2019 | Featured, Manufacturing
After tariffs on lumber and steel went into effect, the cost for Paul Schwinghammer to operate his Indiana-based home building and renovation company soared. “In the last two to two and a half years, our prices are up about 20 percent,” said Schwinghammer who is...
by Daniel Whateley | Apr 30, 2019 | Manufacturing
Source: Mixabest [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] The Institute for Supply Management will release its April manufacturing report tomorrow morning. The report follows a week of positive news on the overall health of the U.S. economy,...
by Daniel Whateley | Apr 7, 2019 | Manufacturing, Uncategorized
The U.S. manufacturing sector grew faster in March than the previous month, with employment growth at its highest level since November 2018, according to the Institute for Supply Management. March’s purchasing manager index (PMI) from the ISM was 55.3, a 1.1...
by Olivia Raimonde | Mar 29, 2019 | Manufacturing
Experts predict moderate gains in a key order, but that may be the last good news this sector sees for a while. Here are five things to watch in the report. 1. Exclude the transportation numbers, please Economists are estimating that new orders for durable goods...
by Olivia Raimonde | Mar 28, 2019 | Featured, Manufacturing
Miguel Gomez, 25, was working in retail and computer repair when he was offered a job as a field service technician for EnvisionTEC—a company that manufactures 3D printers. Now, after working his way up through the company for five years, he is their North American...
