Thankfully, the parties were able to find agreement to end the strike before it caused even more economic damage. We’re hopeful that with a new labor agreement comes a new era of manufacturing growth in Washington – and across the nation.

The low-carbon nitrate fertilizer produced at a $1.5 billion plant that’s proposed in north Richland has a distributor. 

One of the Mid-Columbia’s largest employers has shuttered a potato processing plant and laid off the facility’s roughly 375 workers as part of a restructuring plan.

Taxes, regulations, energy and workforce remain some of the manufacturing industry’s major challenges despite an increase in manufacturing jobs throughout the state.

AWB is calling on lawmakers in the upcoming legislative session to adopt a research and development tax credit that can reach down and lift up our smallest manufacturers and also to nvest in energy production, rather than trying to eliminate energy sources like natural gas and hydroelectric dams.

A new commercial steam corn flaker in Plymouth will be used to make feed that’s easier for cattle to digest. It’ll have the capacity to make 800 tons of flaked corn a day, supplying dairies and feedlots throughout the Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley and beyond.

The National Association of Manufacturers has launched an industry-wide effort to educate Congress and the administration on the need for action to preserve the pro-growth 2017 tax reform provisions set to expire at the end of 2025.

Since 1997, Impact Washington has delivered 3,000 value-driven improvement solutions to more than 1,500 of Washington’s small and medium-sized business, helping them to compete and grow.

Total manufacturing employment in Benton County grew by 16%, and by 23% in Franklin County. In the combined two counties, the gain amounted to 19%.

It’s become increasingly important that employers engage with policymakers, both in Olympia and Washington, D.C.