PALATINE – Newko CEO President Scott Riddell’s story of leading a manufacturing company for thirty years is one filled with determination, inspiration and flavored with some reservation. Scott’s stepfather Harold Newberg and his partner Gene ...
Over the next decade, more than three million manufacturing jobs will likely be needed, and two million are expected to go unfilled due to the skills gap, according to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). ...
“From the founding of our Nation, from Washington to Jefferson, from Jackson to McKinley, our Nation has long understood that our strength as a country depends upon the strength of our domestic industry,” President Trump ...
SCHAUMBURG, IL – Friday, local manufacturers and high school students celebrated National Manufacturing Day. A number of TMA’s members opened up their facilities to the next generation of workers. National Manufacturing Day is intended to ...
ADDISON – “Everything’s got a story,” and few know those tales behind the projects on their shop floor as well as Quality Fabricator Inc.’s CEO Tom Lovelace. During a recent walk through the second-generation company ...
For the sake of Illinois businesses, there needs to be lawsuit reform, judicial reform group I-LAW says… According to the most recent “Lawsuit Climate Survey” conducted by Harris Poll, Illinois ranks near the bottom of ...
When Phil Surma was asked to join the Wrap-On company as its new General Manager three years ago, he took on the job with the vision of waking up a 70-year-old company. “Wrap-On was a ...
LINCOLN NEBRASKA – A gubernatorial news conference to proclaim October as Manufacturing Month in Nebraska morphed Monday into a call for Nebraska youth to consider manufacturing and technology careers that do not require a traditional ...
“Houston, we have a problem.” Who doesn’t remember actor Tom Hanks uttering those breath-taking words in the movie “Apollo 13”? It was a reenactment of tense moments during a routine systems check when astronaut Jim ...
Even at age 86, it’s not unusual for both Harold and Helen Karbin to be working at the business they started 63 years ago. Harold works on Lexco Cable’s accounting and signs checks, while his ...