Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.

West Virginia

West Virginia attorney general backs right-to-work law
Madison.com
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's attorney general has appealed a judge's ruling blocking the state's new right-to-work law from taking ...

Back in the saddle for tax reform bill, despite critical fiscal note
West Virginia MetroNews
Back in the saddle for tax reform bill, despite critical fiscal note ... look at a fiscal note examining the effects of proposed tax reform in West Virginia.

W.Va. Manufacturers Association Launches WVMA Cares Initiative
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)
The West Virginia Manufacturers Association is launching a new community support program aimed at making a positive impact on communities in the ...

West Virginia Wire Company Has Big Presence in Arizona
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)
West Virginia Wire Company Has Big Presence in Arizona ... Service Wire has manufacturing, factory warehouses and sales offices in Culloden, West ...

Benefits of Shale Gas in Appalachia Provide Promise For the Future
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)
The Marcellus Shale creates a distinct competitive advantage for West Virginia manufacturers in the global marketplace. This and other shale plays ...

Adjustments ahead for tax reform bill, committee chairman says
West Virginia MetroNews
Adjustments ahead for tax reform bill, committee chairman says ... He also said West Virginia University or Marshall University might be able to study ...

Ready for another WV tax reform plan? The House has one cooking
West Virginia MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While the state Senate's Select Committee on Tax Reform goes back to the drawing board for its proposal to eliminate the ...

Eagle announces staff changes
The Daily Times

WELLSBURG — Officials with Eagle Manufacturing Co. of Wellsburg have announced the promotion of Steve Roberts to national sales manager and ...

How the economy of West Virginia has changed over the past 25 years
Washington Post
To hear Donald Trump tell it, Americans hold one of three jobs: They work in manufacturing, they work as coal miners or they do something else.

Steve White: Pipeline projects will create plenty of good jobs (Gazette)
Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
West Virginia has been hit especially hard, shedding more industrial jobs since August 2015 than it has at any point since the end of the recession.

Carpenter Technology completes $35M acquisition of West Virginia manufacturer
Lehigh Valley Business
Operations will continue at Puris' existing production site in West Virginia. The facility will operate as a functional unit of Carpenter Powder Products.

West Virginia House votes to revise water pollution limits
WSAZ-TV
The change has long been sought by the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, which says it will help redevelopment of vacant industrial ...

Daily Mail editorial: EPA standards should be good enough for WV
Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
The West Virginia Manufacturers Association rightly believes that ... West Virginia's business environment, then new job creation possibilities will ...

United States

Business Leader: 'Made in the USA' Rebirth on the Way
CBN News
"I'm very optimistic," Drew Greenblatt, chair of the National Association of Manufacturers, told CNBC's "On The Money." "We're going to see an ...

GM and Honda Announce Executive Leadership and Board of Directors for Fuel Cell System ...
EIN News (press release)
Kosaka was president & CEO of Honda of America Mfg., Inc., responsible for .... of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers.

China mulls cutting its electric car production quota
Christian Science Monitor
March 7, 2017 —Eight weeks ago, China seemed to be preparing to loosen its famously strict car-manufacturing rules for foreign makers.

ExxonMobil plans $20 bn investment to expand manufacturing in US
Business Standard
ExxonMobil plans $20 bn investment to expand manufacturing in US ... and chemical manufacturing projects in the US Gulf Coast region to expand its ...

Primary metals manufacturing has lost 84000 jobs over last decade
nwitimes.com
Last year, primary metals manufacturing lost 8,600 jobs, a decline of 2.2 percent. The subsector has lost 27,100 jobs since 2014, a decline of 6.7 ...

How 'Made in the USA' can see a renaissance, and what will (and won't) change
CNBC
Greenblatt, chair of the National Association of Manufacturers and president of Baltimore-based Marlin Steel Wire Products, pointed to policies that ...