The 2023 Colorado Manufacturing Awards (CMAs) honored top-level companies in a variety of fields: craft food and beverage, consumer products, high-tech, and heavy industry. The awards ceremony emphasized the accomplishments — and importance — of leadership by women within manufacturing fields. When Bart Taylor, who served as the event’s emcee, founded CMA co-sponsor CompanyWeek a […]
When we sit around a dinner table — or a campfire — with family and friends, food and drink made by local businesses enhance our lives. Tasty beer and wine. The fixings for flavorful meals — as well as the healthy snacks we reach for in between them. The Colorado brands within the Craft Food […]
Manufacturing’s enduring relationship with America’s defense establishment has again reached a pivotal moment. Against the backdrop of recovering supply chains, cyber threats, and a ground war in Europe, today a crisis in attracting qualified, capable suppliers into the defense ecosystem threatens to substantially degrade America’s ability to arm and sustain its service branches and allies. […]
Today I’m pleased to welcome Illinois manufactures to the inaugural edition of the IL Manufacturing Report. This digital publication is about you: the companies and people reimagining one America’s most important industrial outposts. For us, Illinois is now part of a regional network of Manufacturing Reports that includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, and Utah. Which […]
The finalist group has taken shape for the 2023 Colorado Manufacturing Awards, and this year’s roster of nominees and finalists again represent Colorado and CMA alumni with distinction. The CMAs were founded in 2016 to showcase manufacturing like it hadn’t been seen before — a mix of makers and manufacturers and dreamers and doers across […]
After previewing the finalists for Technology Manufacturing and Industrial & Equipment Manufacturing at the upcoming 2023 Colorado Manufacturing Awards, the spotlight is on the contenders for trophies in the Consumer Product Manufacturing and Craft Food & Beverage Manufacturing categories. Consumer Product Manufacturer of the Year Buena Vista’s Fading West is modeling growth by meeting the […]
One measure of manufacturing’s improbable decade-long comeback is the list of Colorado Manufacturing Awards (CMA) past finalists and winners, from the inaugural event in 2016 to last year. Today it’s a roster of recognizable companies and brands that collectively, has become a national model for manufacturing’s new industrial mix. Colorado companies and people continue to […]
America’s defense supply chain is at a crossroads. On one hand, business is booming for defense contractors. On the other, U.S. manufacturing is straining to meet current demands in a trillion-dollar industry that’s certain to ask more and more from domestic suppliers. We’re on the cusp of a new golden age of advanced manufacturing — […]
By most any measure, 2022 was a transformational year for manufacturing. Here’s an early look at storylines shaping the coming year. 1. 2023 is the year of the semiconductor supply chain — who builds a roadmap that wins? Arizona and Texas were among big winners in the semiconductor factory sweepstakes. But manufacturing communities across the […]
I’ve argued, along with Harry Moser and others, for a new industrial policy that picks U.S. manufacturing “to win.” As contrarian a view this was a decade ago, there’s consensus today that we should do just that. The list of desired outcomes reads like an economic manifesto: Protecting key domestic manufacturing industries and nurturing new […]