CHICAGO – Illinois’ Governor JB Pritzker proclaimed October 2023 as “Manufacturing Month” – honoring one of the state’s largest economic sectors, directly employing 9.5 percent of Illinois’ total workforce.
TMA’s nearly 800 members are concerned how state laws directly affect their businesses and determined to develop an active advocacy program in the State Capitol.
The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte recently released
a study showing that nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs
will likely need to be filled in the United States over the
next decade
Manufacturers are a “bunch of MacGyvers” to Stacey
Bales, president of Bales Metal Surface Solutions.
They make up a unique group of creative, ingenious
and determined folks with whom she loves working
and being associated.
If it weren’t for women leaving their homes and
entering manufacturing plants in the 1940s, the
world we know today would be very different.
Even at age 86, it’s not unusual for both Harold
and Helen Karbin to be working at the business they
started 63 years ago. H
As a former trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and early pioneer in high frequency foreign exchange trading, I saw and lived with the advantage of adopting the best, yet easiest to use technology if I wanted to survive and put-up big numbers in my industry.
It just depends on who you’re talking to. Some economists say the US is in a post-pandemic recession. Others say we’re in an investment supercycle.
TMA 2022 Legislative Scorecard Shows 29 Lawmakers in the Illinois House and Senate Had Perfect Scores Voting for Legislation that Impacts Manufacturing
SCHAUMBURG – The Technology & Manufacturing Association once again hosted a Precision Machining Competition to area high schools for the purpose of encouraging high school students to learn about and consider careers in manufacturing, specifically precision machining.
Nineteen instructors from 18 different Chicago area high schools encouraged their students to develop their machining skills as they completed challenging precision machining projects. After completion, the students’ machining projects were judged by skilled craftsmen in the industry.
