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 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 Daniel Whateley | Mar 26, 2019 | Manufacturing, Uncategorized
Photo Credit: Paul Joseph [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] Jeff Cozzens started brewing beer with his father, best friend and brothers in a renovated 18th century grist mill back in 2013. As their New Hampshire-based brewery, Schilling Beer...
by Daniel Whateley | Mar 3, 2019 | Manufacturing
The White House during a late February snowstorm. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen) The U.S. manufacturing sector slowed in February, with factory employment, new orders and productivity expansion rates all dipping below January levels. February’s...