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OBI Announces Manufacturer of the Year Honorees

The Manufacturer of the Year honorees will be recognized Oct. 6 at OBI’s Manufacturing Day event.

Manufacturing Roadshow Day Three: Cross-Laminated Timber, Aerospace and Electricity

On day three, the Roadshow will visit Freres Engineered Wood, Machine Sciences Corp. and PGE’s Sherwood Training Center

Coolest Thing Made in Oregon: Voters Choose Top Eight

Oregon Business & Industry, in partnership with Here is Oregon, has launched the annual Coolest Thing Made in Oregon competition to celebrate the state’s vibrant and innovative manufacturing sector.

Manufacturing Roadshow Day Two: Planes, Trucks and Cutting-Edge HVAC Systems

On day two, the Roadshow will visit Daimler Truck North America’s High Desert Proving Grounds, Epic Aircraft and BASX Solutions

Coolest Thing Made in Oregon: See Finalists and Vote

OBI Manufacturing Day Event to Take Place Oct. 6

The event will cap off a week of manufacturing activities highlighted by OBI’s 2023 Manufacturing and Innovation Roadshow, which will feature a dozen tours and related activities from Oct. 2-4.

NSI Provides Gas Delivery Systems for High-Tech Manufacturing

NSI manufactures precise gas and chemical delivery systems for the semiconductor, LED and solar-panel industries

OBI Manufacturer of the Year Awards

OBI’s inaugural Manufacturer of the Year Awards will recognize Oregon companies that demonstrate excellence in manufacturing in three areas: innovation, environmental sustainability, and workforce and community impact.

QB Fabrication & Welding Plays Key Role in Northwest Power Grid

Ben Quach, who escaped Vietnam with his family in 1976, started the company in the back yard of his Vancouver home and focused initially on emergency contract work.

OBI’s Coolest Thing Made in Oregon Contest

From Towers to Terminals, Freres Product Has Mass-Timber Mojo

Freres Engineered Wood has translated its expertise in Douglas fir veneer production into a cross laminated timber product composed of many thin layers, a design that provides great strength and rigidity..

Daimler Truck North America Pursues Efficiency, Zero Emissions

Production of the heavy-duty Freightliner eCascadia began last year. Production of the company’s electric box truck, the eM2, will begin by the end of this year.

Duckwall Fruit Continues to Adapt to Serve the Hood River Valley

Duckwall Fruit has served Oregon’s Hood River Valley for more than a century, packing and shipping pears and other fruit while developing new markets and weathering pandemic-related disruptions and workforce shortages.

Supreme Perlite Meets Growing Demand for Expanded Glass

Thanks to its key characteristics – it’s lightweight, insulative and environmentally benign – perlite promises to serve markets that have yet to emerge.

Greenbrier Reduces Fall Risk with Automated Rail Car Hatch

The Greenbrier Companies has developed a hatch for covered hopper rail cars that opens and closes automatically, eliminating the need for workers to climb on cars

How a Manufacturer Created a Community Child Care Program

Boardman Foods created an after-school program for employees in 2004. Then COVID happened, creating a demand for full-day child care. Company officials now run a community day care program at the Port of Morrow.

Bullseye Glass: Portland Company Combines Manufacturing and Art

Southeast Portland-based Bullseye Glass created a process to fuse glass of different colors, allowing for the creation of glass paintings. The company also produces glass for historical restoration, including the windows in the U.S. Capitol cupola.

International Housing Concepts Provides Jobs, Affordability

Salem-based International Housing Concepts produces tiny homes for a range of markets while providing job opportunities for the homeless and for people re-entering the workforce.

Georgia-Pacific Juno Facility Reclaims Paper Fiber from Trash

Georgia Pacific’s Juno facility, in Toledo, separates paper fiber from about 70,000 tons of household trash every year and uses it to make cardboard used in corrugated boxes.

Video wall inside Knight Cancer Instiute

Planar: Leading Manufacturer of Video Display Systems Calls Hillsboro Home

Hillsboro-based Planar manufactures video display systems and is the global market leader for LED video displays, narrow pixel pitch LED and the indoor LED video wall market.

Looptworks: Portland Manufacturer Turns Landfill-Bound Material into Stylish Bags, Apparel

Portland manufacturer Looptworks uses material headed for landfills to produce bags, apparel and other upcycled merchandise.

Roy Manufacturing and Profile Laser: Metal Fabrication for Art and Industry

Roy Manufacturing and Profile Laser, Portland-based sister companies, serve a wide range of clients across the country. Their metal fabrication work is used by sculptors and architects as well as companies that screen seeds and aggregate.

Boeing’s Jumbo Manufacturing Role in Oregon

Boeing has a significant footprint in Oregon, machining airliner parts in Gresham, developing unmanned aerial vehicles in Hood River and improving manufacturing technology through its work with the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center in Scappoose.

Willamette Technical Fabricators

Willamette Technical Fabricators specializes in complex, custom manufacturing projects ranging from steel boats that can be squeezed between barges to complex pipes used in pumped-storage hydropower facilities.

Quality testing Riddle Engineered Wood Roseburg

Roseburg Forest Products

Roseburg Forest Products operates seven plants in Oregon and 14 elsewhere in North America. It employs about 2,200 people in Oregon and manufactures a variety of products, including engineered wood, veneer and medium-density fiberboard.

A to Z Wineworks

Most people don’t think of wine makers as manufacturing operations. But Oregon’s highly successful A to Z Wineworks shows why they should.

Miles Fiberglass & Composites

Miles Fiberglass & Composites has manufactured products in Oregon since its founding in 1963. Run by Lori Olund, the company specializes in custom work.

Vigor

Tour Vigor in Portland, OR as part of Oregon Business & Industry’s annual Celebrating Manufacturers event. See for yourself how manufacturing powers our economy and supports our local communities.

Ponderosa Forge & Ironworks

Tour Ponderosa Forge & Ironworks in Sisters, OR as part of Oregon Business & Industry’s annual Celebrating Manufacturers event. See for yourself how manufacturing powers our economy and supports our local communities.

A-dec, Inc.

Tour A-dec in Newberg, OR as part of Oregon Business & Industry’s annual Celebrating Manufacturers event. See for yourself how manufacturing powers our economy and supports our local communities.

ENTEK

ENTEK is a global manufacturing company headquartered in Lebanon, Oregon. We have three manufacturing companies under our umbrella. The first makes battery separators for cars, trucks, boats, golf carts, and lawn and garden equipment.

Medford Fabrication

Medford Fabrication is a family-operated business that was established in the mid-1940s building fuel storage tanks. Throughout our nearly 80 years in business, we have grown to serve customers of all sizes across Oregon, the U.S., and the world.

ESCO, A Weir Group Division

We engineer and manufacture technology that is used in some of the harshest environments on earth. That includes mining hard rock, which produces the copper that is essential to electric vehicles, renewable energy and large infrastructure projects in cities.