Montana Manufacturing Extension Center

Hosted by the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center and Northwestern Energy, the event will also feature several speakers giving national manufacturing perspective and insights from a variety of innovative Montana company leaders.

Re-shoring is indeed real, and the reasons are not the ones that would immediately come to mind.

Come LEAD – INNOVATE – GROW and re-connect with manufacturing peers and allies.

"There is a direct nexus between a strong domestic manufacturing sector and America’s ability to prevent, mitigate, recover from, and rebuild quickly in the wake of catastrophic events," said Ridge. "Revitalizing America’s domestic manufacturing capacity must become a clear and urgent national priority at all levels of government and among industry leaders."

One thing that Montanans might not realize is that the Big Sky State has a surprising number of capable manufacturers.

"He employs brutal honesty, listening and relating, and mediation along with a wealth of knowledge from 25 years immersed in design and manufacture as a business owner."

"We thought better, more affordable and faster lab equipment was needed to improve learning," Amend said. Thus the journey to design computer data acquisition technology for student learning began and it has reallocated the way students use their lab time.

"Manufacturing is a high-wage job creator in Montana." – Steve Holland

How do small companies combine technology, software and manufacturing or other core competencies to get the "Big Bang" of larger firms in Montana?

When Montana-based AdvR, Inc. – a developer of laser optic technologies – was moving one of their technologies from development toward production, company leaders asked what is the best way to move toward manufacturing.