Contents Spring 2008

ON THE COVER
Steel billets at Nucor-Seattle West Seattle plant (photo by April Greer)

SPECIAL REPORT -
Manufacturing 2008

The presidential candidates each say US manufacturing is dead and only they can bring it back. So who is making all the stuff establishing new records for US exports? Our 2008 survey of Washington manufacturing shines a light on this question and other realities that will probably not disturb the campaign rhetoric.

6 Export Surge: Six Years in the Making

Washington export growth predates the dollar drop

9 Northwest Industrial Index

Most other reports or surveys treat "manufacturing" as a singular entity, resulting in mountains of data that obscure the actual peaks and valleys that make up the manufacturing landscape.

15 Up from the Basement

Genie Industries in honored during the Washington Manufacturing Appreciation program June 2nd and 3rd.