For Mike Flynn, manager of DuPage Precision Products, the importance of manufacturing in Illinois should be selfexplanatory and self-evident. “Manufacturing is a core industry, like farming. You’re doing valueadded; you’re changing something. You’re making something substantial. Everyone who’s an accountant

By Fran Eaton, TMA News Bulletin editor –  “Joey” Bettinardi, Vice President of Sales and Operations at Betts Precision in Alsip, Illinois, represents well “Gen Z” – a generation that focuses on two key components in their life work: environmental

SCHAUMBURG – In June 2014, the future looked grim for Taurus Tool & Manufacturing after a 3-alarm fire in Schaumburg, Illinois engulfed the larger of two company buildings and smoke-damaged the other.  The devastating fire started when a cutting tool

WHEELING, IL – At a very young age, Gabriel Perez began helping his mother with her embroidery work in Rincon de Dolores, Michoacan Mexico. He is the youngest of six children, all taught at a young age to work hard