Skills Standards for Manufacturers
Adopting national training standards for manufacturing jobs tops priorities for Alabama Community College System workforce division.
Bayou Shipbuilder Booming
Travis Short looks out the picture window in his Bayou La Batre office and points out the diversity of Horizon Shipbuilding’s clientele. To...
Enterprise as Therapy
They make protective sleeves for plants using brown paper and glue. They cut, sharpen and paint wooden stakes that hold real estate yard...
Hook-Setting Determination
For many people, the old Andy Griffith Show perfectly personified what life was like in a small Southern town in the ’50s and...
A Declaration of Independence in International Trade
We spoke with U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in mid-June, on the subject of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. At the time, opponents...
American Manufacturers Battle Chinese Scofflaws
When Business Alabama visited with him two years ago, Milton Magnus III was hanging in there — up to his neck fighting illegal...
Industry Unraveled
It can take just a single loose thread to start the unraveling. A flaw forms in one area and begins to spread. Before long,...
American-Made Works Big Time at Haleyville's Exxel Outdoors
Barbara Garrison was destined to make sleeping bags, right down to her initials: BAG. And her dedication to her profession, her...
Clean Machine Specialists
Compliance with environmental regulations is an ongoing challenge for Alabama manufacturers employing procedures or materials that have the potential to pollute air, water...
Wiring North America
If you’ve built a new house, rewired your basement, added an outdoor TV, or just a new porch light in recent...
