At the end of each year, you can always find numerous industry predictions for the year ahead. Here’s what some manufacturing industry experts are predicting for the sector in 2022. According to the annual Metalworking Capital Spending Survey from Gardner Intelligence, a division of Modern Machine Shop magazine’s publisher, Gardner Business Media, the metalworking industry will […]

By all accounts, the manufacturing industry in Connecticut has been steadily growing for the past several years and it’s projected to keep on growing. In November, the sector posted its largest monthly gain since May 2020. In its 2018 – 2028 employment projections, Connecticut’s Department of Labor predicts the demand for computer-controlled machine operators to […]

Tarrifs Effective January 1, 2022, the U.S. will no longer impose a 25% tariff on steel or a 10% tariff on aluminum imported from the European Union (EU). The two countries negotiated an agreement to lift the Section 232 tariffs on October 31, 2021 at the G-20 Summit in Italy. In exchange for lifting the […]