Engis Corporation, a member of TMA since 1982, was awarded the “2018 Exporter of the Year” by the Illinois Department of Commerce last week. Engis Corporation’s mission is to help companies improve productivity and profitability ...
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the ...
Sure, Industry Week may rate California #1 for manufacturing, but the majority of the top-rated states for the industry are right here in was once referred to as the “Rust Belt” Midwest. Industry Week’s new ...
A report released in November found that as many as 800 million workers worldwide could be replaced by robots by 2030. That’s not shocking to most Americans, but they also don’t believe they are easily ...
LYONS – Atlas Tool Works will soon be celebrating its 100-year anniversary, and the fourth generation of Mottls is focused on the company’s future. Since its founding in 1918, Atlas Tool Works – like all ...
By Zach Mottl – For more than 100 years, my company, Atlas Tool Works, has been making precision parts and components in Illinois. In that time, our state has benefited from the middle-class jobs created ...
The US economy is chugging along, and first quarter earnings increased with manufacturing growth having a part leading the way. Auto manufacturers’ profit-sharing payments boosted Americans’ earnings in nine states by $4.3 billion while durable ...
Robotics and Automation News listed eight technologies that are about to change manufacturing as we know it. They found those new developments listed in the Smart Manufacturing report released by ABIResearch earlier this week. The ...
In Market Watch Thursday, Chicago area manufacturer Zach Mottl shares his thoughts about the Trump Administration’s tariff strategy with China … and why he believes the president is right. Mottl is TMA’s Government Relations Committee ...
Ryan and Aaron Wiegel of Wiegel Tool Works WOOD DALE – Brothers Aaron and Ryan Wiegel and their sister Erica make up the third generation of a manufacturing family that has owned and operated Wiegel ...