Worker Dujuan Brown loads an 18 inch plastic roll into a machine at the Wrap-Tite manufacturing facility in Solon, Ohio (REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk).
Blog Post
Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing, Region by Region
May 13, 2013, Mark Muro
Last week President Obama used his trip to Austin, TX to announce the creation of three more public-private manufacturing research institutes as nodes of a $1 billion National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). On the same day, though, there was another intriguing if lower-key announcement on the Obama administration’s manufacturing agenda.