Author name: Kim Lloyd

Following the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer recently visited Ljungström’s Wellsville plant – after delivering a $1.5 million workforce development grant in 2021 to help power the company’s transition from coal to clean energy – to announce the company now projects to add over 50 new […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest editorial by Cory Albrecht. Albrecht is the director of the Advanced Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) at Mohawk Valley Community College. Originally published in the Central New York Business Journal | August 3, 2023   I recently asked a roomful of eighth graders, “Close your eyes and picture yourself walking down a

Technicians look over a chip processing machine at the Micron Technology automotive chip manufacturing plant Tuesday Jan. 1, 2019, in Manassas, Virginia. Steve Helber | AP Photo Building a facility for a global corporation that will be employing 9,000 people isn’t something that happens overnight. An initiative of this scale and magnitude requires a deliberate

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest editorial by Steve Lockwood. Lockwood is the executive director of CITEC, the regional New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NY MEP) center serving the North Country. The North Country has a fundamental workforce problem, but there are solutions within our grasp. Amid statistics that show a double-digit decline in the region’s