Congressman Jared Golden invited the president of TimberHP, Josh Henry, to join him at the U.S. Capitol Thursday night, saying he helped ensure one of Maine’s heritage industries will have a future.
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Funny, ‘useless’ inventions boost spirits, creativity at struggling small factories
Unnecessity seems to be the mother of some invention: There is an annual competition for such useless products made by professional artisans in Japan.
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Pratt & Whitney engines suffer production troubles, but not in Maine
The problem affects about 3,000 engines on commercial aircraft, forcing additional inspections that will put pressure on airlines as air travel rebounds following the pandemic.
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Trump promised this Wisconsin town a manufacturing boom. It never arrived
A half-hour from Milwaukee in Mount Pleasant, facilities owned by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn have not made good on promises touted by the former president.
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Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictment
The president’s arrival in Milwaukee came on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, a major piece of economic legislation, but polls show that most people know little about it or what it does.
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Biden pitches his efforts on clean energy, infrastructure as key to reviving manufacturing jobs
The claim that the administration has bolstered U.S. manufacturing is backed by a rise in construction spending on new factories, but factory hiring has begun to slow in recent months.
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Auburn Manufacturing Inc. has endured and persevered
The specialty textile manufacturer battled through COVID-19 and took on the Chinese for targeting her business.
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Biden to focus on economy, manufacturing in visit to Maine on Friday
The president’s stop is part of a national push touting ‘Bidenomics,’ which supporters say is an attempt to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up, rather than the top down.
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Madison ceremony marks return of manufacturing, and jobs, to former paper mill
Gov. Janet Mills, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Rep. Jared Golden were among a crowd of a few hundred Friday celebrating the work of TimberHP to restart manufacturing operations at the plant.
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Pratt & Whitney to ramp up jet engine program, potentially adding hundreds of jobs in North Berwick
The company is more than doubling the size of its upgrade team in preparation to redesign the F-135 engine.