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On October 18, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association will present the Association’s 2017 Awards for Excellence to 12 companies that have done outstanding work to improve the quality of life in New Jersey.
The awards will be presented at a reception at the Bridgewater Marriott.
Every year, NJBIA honors a select group...
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Five companies and one individual, out of 24 finalists, were recognized for their contributions to the state’s $44.5 billion manufacturing industry at today’s New Jersey Manufacturing Awards 2017 celebration held at the Bridgewater Marriott. The annual event, which coincides with National Manufacturing Day and Manufacturing Week, was...
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New Jersey manufacturers are challenged on many fronts: a shortage of skilled workers, operating in a high-cost state, and competition from companies across the nation and all over the world. They survive by being highly specialized and technologically sophisticated, so NJBIA pursues policies that will give manufacturers the economic...
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A few years ago, policymakers took a hard look at New Jersey’s employment market and saw that businesses were struggling to find workers with the right skills. If things continued this way, New Jersey businesses were going to suffer a major shortage of skilled workers. So the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) began...
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Election Day is just a few weeks away and the one point all sides can agree on is that whoever voters send to the Governor’s office will face a monumental task in 2018.
New Jersey taxpayers are at a breaking point and both families and businesses are demanding that this state’s affordability crisis be the No. 1 priority of their...
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Strong organizational partnerships throughout New Jersey are boosting manufacturing industry growth by ensuring that the needs of this high-tech industry, once viewed upon as “dirty, dangerous and a dead-end,” are being met.
Entities such as the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program (NJMEP), the Advanced Manufacturing...
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Larry Taitel
Convertech
Larry Taitel is president and co-owner of Convertech, a Wharton-based manufacturing company founded in 1978 by his parents to produce high-quality expanding air shafts and core chucks for other businesses in the converting industry, including OEMs, distributors and end users.
Growing up in the manufacturing...
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Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While Franklin wrote those words in 1789, it’s still true that death is unavoidable. (We’ll talk about taxes later). But sound estate planning can minimize the legal and logistical upheaval that your death may cause your...
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Easterseals
The capabilities of Easterseals NJ Packaging and Fulfillment Services (NJPFS) workers in New Brunswick are vastly different, depending on individual physical and mental disabilities. To ensure every participant enjoys the confidence, passion, commitment and pride in assembling and packaging quality products, NJPFS...
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3DMonstr
Searching for 3DMonstr? Princeton Junction is its home. Since 2013, and with only three full-time employees, 3DMonstr has been designing and manufacturing industrial grade, large format, water-cooled, quad-extruder 3D printers in its New Jersey facility. With up to four water-cooled extruders, 3DMonstr’s line of two T-Rex...
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California Closets North Jersey
California Closets is known for its range of residential custom closets and closet organizers and storage systems. The family-run California Closets North Jersey franchise has been manufacturing custom storage solutions in its Fairfield facility for more than three decades. Its sales have doubled in...
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Kreisler
Based in Elmwood Park, Kreisler has been manufacturing aircraft engine parts in New Jersey for more than 60 years. To protect the company and its employees from the economic cycles that invariably occur and maintain sales against off-shore competitors, Kreisler is executing a strategy that includes vertical integration,...
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On the following pages, the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program (NJMEP) and the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), in conjunction with New Jersey Business magazine and sponsor CohnReznick, present the 2017 New Jersey Manufacturing Awards finalists, recognizing small-, medium- and large-sized manufacturers and...
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More than 300 women and men today gathered at the DoubleTree by Hilton Somerset Hotel and Conference Center for the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s (NJBIA’s) third annual Women Business Leaders Forum, titled “Unlocking the C-Suite.” It was an event focused on helping women and men advance in business, and...
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Fortune magazine’s most recent list of the Top 500 public and private US companies is noteworthy, but not just for Walmart’s $485.9 billion in revenues or Amazon’s 297.8 percent increase in profits. The number that struck me most is this one: 32.
Thirty-two is the number of Fortune 500 companies now run by female CEOs, a 50...
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