It’s Women’s History month and if you’re a woman in manufacturing, Congratulations! You make up 36% of the manufacturing workforce in the state. That percentage is amazing! Although women have worked in U.S. manufacturing since World War I, the field hasn’t increased in popularity much for women. But it hasn’t decreased, either. Currently, women make […]

Connecticut is home to “Aerospace Alley,” an industrial ecosystem of thousands of advanced manufacturing companies drawing from the fourth most productive workforce in America. According to a recent article in the Westfair Business Journal, there are nearly 129,000 aerospace and defense jobs in Connecticut, and our manufacturers bring in more than $18 billion in annual […]

Well, it’s happened again. I got sucked into the Alliance for American Manufacturing’s blog vortex. I find their articles interesting and well written. As a manufacturing Ambassador to the state of CT, I can’t get enough of this information. Here are two posts that really caught my attention. On March 8th, Matthew McMullan wrote an […]

At the State of the Union address last month President Biden covered a variety of topics and, regardless of your political leanings, you might be interested in what he had to say about manufacturing. If you didn’t tune in, here’s a highlight about the Buy American Act. Biden stated, “Buy American has been the law […]