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259 Qualify as Pierce County’s Major Employers in 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 29, 2018 – Tacoma, WA The Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County has published its 2018 Major Employers…
AIM Aerospace moves, expands, and adds jobs AIM Aerospace is ramping up its manufacturing operations in Sumner, and that means hundreds of new jobs in Pierce County. The advanced carbon fiber manufacturing…
Have 50 or more employees? Let us know soon There’s still time to be included in the EDB’s 2018 Major Employers List. The list includes companies with 100 or more full-time…
Governor Jay Inslee announces $125,000 grant to support Washington State aerospace innovation and expansion For immediate release, Sumner, WA – September 25, 2018 The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced…
Port of Tacoma celebrates 100 years This year marks a big birthday for the Port of Tacoma, and celebrating is definitely in order. The port grew from a vision (and 1918…
The Voice for the Manufacturing, Industrial and Maritime Community in the South Sound A New Coalition for South Sound Manufacturing Manufacturing has a new voice. Today we announce the new…
James Hardie: EDB recruitment success, then and now In the Frederickson corporate offices of James Hardie Building Products Inc., the framed front page of the September 1997 issue of Teamwork hanging in the…
AMES International making sweet, global splash Consumers in Southeast Asia are looking to satisfy a sweet (and salty) tooth. A deal between AMES Internationaland Tmall will make that easier. Fife-based AMES is the…
They love us. The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce devoted an entire special section to projects popping up all over Tacoma, including a $125 million mixed-use complex in the Brewery…
Washington State ranks “most competitive” in U.S. by a wide margin for aerospace manufacturing Independent researchers looked at 41 metrics in every state and the District of Columbia. Washington’s dense…