Sep 20, 2024 | Clean Energy, Manufacturing
Chalk up another win for advanced battery production in Washington State. Group 14 Technologies landed a $200 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The grant will allow the company to build a new plant to produce silane gas, an essential ingredient in...
Jun 21, 2024 | Manufacturing, Technology
When it comes to manufacturing, tech is where it’s at these days. Just ask the folks in Clark County where chips manufacturing (not the potato kind) is big business. So much so that the state has invested $300,000 to help Analog Devices, Inc., one of the county’s...
May 5, 2023 | Clean Energy, Manufacturing, Maritime
Powerboating is a true joy unless you’re trying to talk to the person next to you. Boat engines are noisy, whether they are inboards or outboards. The constant roar of the engine has ruined more than one party, and perhaps even a relationship or two. Enter Pure...
May 19, 2020 | Manufacturing
You’d think that a company celebrating its 100th year in business would be pretty stodgy and unbending. But not UMC, Inc. Founded in 1920, the Mukilteo company has been through the Great Depression, a world war, the infamous “will the last one leaving Seattle turn out...
Mar 31, 2020 | Life Science/Global Health, Manufacturing
If there was ever a right time and a right place, Washington’s Ventec Life Systems would be in it. As the nation is held in the grip of a global pandemic, the shortage of ventilators has become sadly apparent. Currently, there are only 160,000 ventilators in the...
Jan 24, 2020 | Manufacturing
Navigating the regulatory environment can be a complex undertaking for manufacturers. Washington’s new online Regulatory Roadmap will ease some of that pain, allowing businesses to explore their options through a new online portal. The portal is the first of its kind...
Feb 7, 2019 | Manufacturing, Maritime
When it comes to building a new generation of landing craft for the U.S. Army, Vancouver is the big winner. Over the next 10 years, Vigor will be the prime contractor on the nearly $1 billion contract for the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light), or MSV/L. Vigor will...
Jan 17, 2019 | Manufacturing
Local economic developers must have had one heck of a crystal ball back in 1968 when the Port of Tacoma purchased 500 acres in Frederickson for $1.6 million. They hoped to one day turn the acreage into an industrial center, a major hub for manufacturing and...
Jun 11, 2018 | Manufacturing
Rumpelstiltskin may have known how to spin straw into gold, but a new plant being built in Washington State knows something about spinning straw into gold too. Technically, it’s pulp, but the new $184 million pulp mill near Dayton promises to be a gold mine...
Feb 22, 2018 | Culture of Creativity, Manufacturing
The clock is ticking on the 10,000 Year Clock. The clock, which is being built deep inside a mountain in West Texas, has a lot of Seattle connections. Notably, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos started the project with a $40 million investment. Two other Washington companies...
