Idaho non-profit trade associations are increasingly turning to online statewide directories to link producers and providers of products to potential customers and each other. Two of these are up and running in their early stages. The Idaho Manufacturing Alliance, which ...

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“Perfect teleportation” may sound like a sci-fi term, but for a Nampa 3D printing company, it’s a key to success. Slant 3D’s prototyping printer, The Mason – which is itself 3D printed – helps companies finalize their design before Slant 3D ...

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By the end of the year, Boise-based Episciences Inc. will be able to triple production of its skin care products with the opening of a new manufacturing center across the street from its current property on Emerald Street. Episciences is ...

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La Grande, Oregon,-based Barreto Manufacturing has purchased the 145,000-square-foot former mill site in Horseshoe Bend that Boise Cascade shut down in 1998. The purchase for an undisclosed amount closed Aug. 23. The 40-acre property includes two manufacturing buildings adding up ...

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High school students in the Magic Valley are participating in apprenticeships to help them learn manufacturing skills. Similar to the software engineering apprenticeship program and the healthcare apprenticeship program the Department of Labor also offers, the manufacturing apprenticeship program – focused ...

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NewCold, based in The Netherlands, will build a $90 million, 25 million-cubic-foot cold storage warehouse in Burley to store frozen French fries for manufacturer McCain Foods, which itself is expanding right now, Burley City Administrator Mark Mitton said. “It can ...

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Recreation vehicle manufacturer Jayco Inc. started moving earth in January for a 235,000-square-foot expansion in Twin Falls that will enable the Middlebury, Indiana company to more than double its Idaho employee count to 525 by the end of the year. ...

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Manufacturing is a bright spot in Idaho business, growing nearly 20 percent from 2010 to 2016. “In 2016, Idaho saw a 3.6 percent increase in manufacturing employment,” said Jake Reynolds, business retention & expansion manager for the Department of Commerce, ...

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Idaho Falls’ sister city relationship with Tokai-Mura, Japan, led to the opening of a Sakae Casting business office March 17 in Idaho Falls. The company is exploring relationships with the Idaho National Laboratory, the University of Idaho and the nuclear ...

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Priefert Manufacturing, a Mount Pleasant, Texas, ranch, farm and rodeo equipment manufacturer, is opening a warehouse and distribution center for its steel division near Boise Airport to serve the Pacific Northwest, according to a release from the Boise Valley Economic ...

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