Manufacturing

Smaller Oregon companies looking for semiconductor funding

March 8, 2023

CORVALLIS— In a small laboratory on HP’s Corvallis campus, a group of Oregon State University graduates are producing a chemical that will make semiconductor chips smaller, lighter and more efficient to produce. The company, Inpria, was born out of an Oregon State University professor’s research group about 15 years ago.…

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Manufacturing in the Rogue Valley

March 8, 2023

Manufacturing employed 186,367 Oregonians in 2021, which is about 12% of total private payroll coverage at the statewide level. Zooming in on the sector within the Rogue Valley, manufacturing employed 10,575 Southern Oregonians in 2021, which is about 10% of total private coverage within the Rogue Valley. The manufacturing sector…

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Arcimoto Announces Latest Milestone in Nationwide Expansion Plan

January 5, 2021

By Megan Kathman  Arcimoto PR Arcimoto, Inc.® (NASDAQ: FUV), makers of affordable, practical, and joyful pure electric vehicles for everyday commuters and fleets, today announced the next step in its nationwide expansion plan by opening the state of Florida for customer reservations. Today, Arcimoto began reaching out to early preorder…

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Arcimoto to Present Its Vision For Sustainable Transportation at Three Upcoming Investor Conferences

December 1, 2020

Press Release – 12/1/2020 EUGENE, Ore.–Arcimoto, Inc.® (NASDAQ: FUV), makers of affordable, practical, and joyful pure electric vehicles for everyday commuters and fleets, will present its vision for the future of sustainable transportation at three upcoming investor conferences. “2020 has been the most transformative year in Arcimoto’s history,” said Mark…

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5 Minute Profile: Hydro Flask, Bend

August 31, 2020

By Jim Teece Each Month I spend 5 minutes using the web to find information about Oregon Companies. Hydro Flask is the award-winning leader in high-performance, insulated stainless steel beverage and food flasks.  Founded in 2009 in Bend, Oregon, Hydro Flask is committed to bringing customers Unexpected Refreshment each and…

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Hynix’s 1.2-million-square-foot Eugene factory sells for $6.3 million

April 7, 2020

Hynix spent $1.5 billion to build and equip a world-class 1.2-million-square-foot factory on 200 acres, which opened in 1998. It operated for a decade before shutting down in 2008 during the great recession. The closure left 1,400 people out of work, which was one of the biggest mass layoffs in…

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Budget-Friendly Inventory Management Tools for Small Business

January 1, 2020

By Marcus Lansky at https://abilitator.biz/ Whether you’re running a retail store, a manufacturing facility, or a warehouse, inventory management is likely a constant challenge for your business. That’s especially true if you’re a small business in the early stages of growth. However, even small businesses on tight budgets have options…

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History has to begin somewhere. And so do businesses.

January 1, 2020

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS  SINCE 1946 By Greg Henderson Con-Vey, LLC—previously known as Con-Vey Keystone, Inc.—is headquartered in Roseburg at their full-service facility of over 100,000 sq. ft. Beginning as a fabrication and machine shop in 1946, who could have guessed that customers located only a few miles away in the beginning…

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TallWood Design Institute Open House and Emmerson Lab Public Opening

August 23, 2019

Thursday, October 10, 2019 – 1:30pm to 4:30pm Please join TDI and other mass timber enthusiasts this fall at the recently completed A.A. “Red” Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory for an open house demonstration of the facility’s structural testing and advanced manufacturing capabilities, including live demos of our Biesse 5-axis CNC and Kuka…

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Oregon Tech Board Chair Lisa Graham Named to National “Influential Women in Manufacturing” List

July 16, 2019

July 16, 2019, Schaumburg, Ill. – Lisa Graham, Ph.D., P.E., vice president of analytics engineering at Seeq and chair of the Board of Trustees of Oregon Institute of Technology, “Oregon Tech,” has been selected to the 2019 class of Influential Women in Manufacturing (IWIM). The award is provided annually by Putman Media, publisher of Chemical Processing,…

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How stories from Aviation can make us better Managers

July 1, 2019

THE LEARNING CURVE, GARY ANTHES In this, the fourth installment of our six part series, we look at the role of Delivery in business value creation and examine, through the lens of lessons learned, an example of delivery from the field of aviation. The picture of Boeing’s iconic 737 airliner…

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Oregon Construction – A Few Words

June 1, 2019

A recent report said there are over 5,000 construction jobs available in Oregon today. It would appear that anyone meeting qualifications to work in the construction industry can find work. And yet many rural communities struggle to keep the infrastructure operating or young adults from moving to the bigger cities.…

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