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Optimism among U.S. manufacturers remains high despite continued workforce concerns brought on by the tight labor market., rising health care costsand the state of the nation’s infrastructure, according to a quarterly survey by the industry’s top trade group released ...
There is good news and potentially not-so-good news concerning Chinese tariffs, CNN reports.The world’s second largest economy is feeling the effects of the trade war with the United States. The good news is: Trade tensions ...
Rich Hoster has been Smith & Richardson, Inc.’s co-owner and president for nearly 25 years. He joined the company in the mid-1980s, soon after graduating from the University of Tulsa with a degree in finance ...
The last week of January 2019 brought with it some of the most frigid temperatures in decades for America’s Midwest – and along with it, manufacturers’ concerns about rising energy costs and demands, as well ...
WASHINGTON – A new study of the US economy from the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) economics team shows that the US dollar is overvalued by 27 percent. Adjusting the dollar to a competitive level ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – JR Hommer says he’s been in a manufacturing family since he was six years old, and in the industry himself for since 1992. In just the past few years, he’s noticed a ...
Optimism among manufacturers nationwide is at all-time highs, but manufacturers are not similarly hopeful about their futures in the state of Illinois. In 2015, 42% of Illinois state representatives had a cumulative score of 75 ...
For the most part, manufacturing careers get a bad rap these days. The common perception is that most manufacturing is done on dark, dismal shop fl oors. The jobs are plentiful, but they’re not easy ...
MILAN – Over 120 Milan Illinois jobs will be moving north and across the Mississippi River into Iowa. Lewis Machine and Tool will be taking to Eldridge Iowa a new contract to make 15,000 firearms ...
The Technology & Manufacturing Association’s Government Relations is transparent about the public policy issues they keep an eye on during Illinois’ legislative sessions. These issues are the ones upon which they rate lawmakers’ voting records ...
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