YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Brooklyn Butler, a sixth grader at Seaborn Elementary School in Mineral Ridge, navigates a pen-shaped soldering iron as she delicately removes a capacitor from a small circuit board. It’s not a task normally assigned to a middle…
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network, or Magnet, along with more than 100 stakeholders on Tuesday presented a long-term vision to advance manufacturing in northeastern Ohio. “Make It Better: A Blueprint for Manufacturing in Northeast Ohio,” brings together the…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A bill circulating through Congress sponsored by U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., would establish an additional 15 advanced national manufacturing centers across the country, continuing a program that began with America Makes nearly…
Slade Gardner, president of Big Metal Additive, says workers of all disciplines and educational levels will be needed for the fast-growing additive manufacturing industry.Plus: Shell announced plans to begin production at its $6 billion cracker plant, and a new restaurant…
BOARDMAN – The Prodigal Company faced a year of adversities like many others as it encountered challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the agency owner Jeff Hedrich was once told by a business mentor: “Survival is the single most…
LEETONIA, Ohio – To honor Humtown Products being named a Manufacturer of the Year, the Columbiana County Port Authority has presented the company with a display to hang in its Leetonia plant. In October, the National Association of Manufacturers named…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A new partnership announced Oct. 8 will serve as a clearinghouse to connect local companies and inventors with opportunities to collaborate with federal agencies and commercialize cutting edge technologies. The Advanced Manufacturing and Applied Research Innovation Institute, a…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A new partnership announced Thursday morning will serve as a clearinghouse to connect local companies, entrepreneurs and inventors with opportunities to collaborate with federal agencies and commercialize cutting edge technologies. The Advanced Manufacturing and Applied Research Innovation…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – It’s been just over a month since the Food and Drug Administration put out a memorandum of understanding with America Makes, the Veterans Administration and the National Institutes of Health to put additive manufacturing to work in…
MERCER COUNTY, Pa. — A short video made by students at Greenville Jr/Sr High Schools asks the ageless question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How the video answers that question is like something out of…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Rapidly responding to immediate equipment demands such as those arising from the COVID-1s pandemic is why national manufacturing hubs such as America Makes were established, its executive director, John Wilczynski, observed Monday. Wilczynski and America Makes hosted…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — When Joel Neidig purchased his first 3D printer, he said he couldn’t answer his father and grandfather on how he was going to use it. But the third-generation manufacturer started experimenting to make one-off prototypes, then started…
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