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Providence Business News: Five Questions with Emily Reade
Emily Reade, president of chemical manufacturing company Reade Advanced Materials discusses the International Organization of Standardization’s 9001-2015 certification for small and midsized manufacturers and how her company was able to bolster customer confidence and...
February 2-Q Poll – Rhode Island Manufacturers On Government Contracting
President Biden has signed several Executive Orders to strengthen Buy American provisions and American Manufacturing. This included elements which would require active use of the MEP National Network by federal agencies. As the Rhode Island center for the MEP National...
Providence Business News: Most manufacturers plan to increase workforce counts
By Erin Read Polaris MEP, which stands for Manufacturing Extension Partnership, has launched a “2-Q Poll” survey series to solicit feedback from the manufacturing industry in Rhode Island via two questions on timely topic each month. This month's poll shows how Rhode...
January 2-Q Poll – Workforce Changes Anticipated by Rhode Island Manufacturers
Polaris MEP has introduced a new survey designed to check the pulse of the Rhode Island manufacturing community. Each month we ask our industry two short questions on a timely topic. In January, the very first "2-Q Poll" for Rhode Island manufacturers focused on...
Raimondo, Duckworth Discuss MEP National Network During Senate Commerce Committee Hearing
American manufacturing and the MEP National Network™ were topics during a Senate panel last week considering consider the presidential nomination of Gina Raimondo to be Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce. On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, Rhode Island...
Buy American Executive Order Signed
On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to strengthen Buy American provisions. The EO establishes a priority at the highest levels to use federal purchasing power to support American manufacturers of all types and sizes, across the country....
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