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ManufacturingManufacturing Will Return to The United States with a Vengeance!From Changing Demography and Your Future: " Generation Y (over 90 million native kids 23 and under) are overwhelming the entry level labor market. They are displacing the immigrants and this will naturally reverse all of our so called immigration issues. (Maybe we can sell the billion dollar wall we just built to Mexico to keep the unemployed Latinos from returning.) This home grown labor force will be the biggest and best one the United States has ever had." Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017If your manufacturing processes or downline business depends on zinc, copper, or several other elements, you might start redesigning your business model: "...another twenty years will see the extinction of zinc. Even copper is an endangered item, since worldwide demand for it is likely to exceed available supplies by the end of the present century." Read the full article: Arkansas Unemployment Rate Falls to 5 Percent"Arkansas' unemployment rate fell from 5.6 percent in January to 5 percent in February, the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services said Friday. For the 12-month period, manufacturing saw a loss of 7,200 jobs and durable goods saw a loss of 4,700. Nondurable goods dropped by 2,500 jobs. Continued layoffs and closures were behind those declines." Read the full article More and Better: Preventing a 2010 Workforce MeltdownEdward E. Gordon, author of The 2010 Meltdown, recently spoke in Little Rock at the fourth annual UALR Regionalism Conference. While a video of the Gordon's UALR presentation is not available, a copy of his same presentation to the The University of Minnesota is available for viewing both online and off. Online video Download video (zipped MP4, 226 MB) Download audio (MP3, 35.5 MB) Arkansas Awarded Funding to Improve Industrial Energy EfficiencyArkansas has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP). These funds will provide several Arkansas industrial plants with extensive energy assessments and will enable these industries to identify energy and money-saving opportunities. In addition to analysis and plant assessments, each project includes follow-up technical and implementation assistance and an evaluation of the actual energy savings. The grant focuses on plants using steam, process heating, pumps, fans and compressed air systems. |
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