"Through MFG 21, Oregon manufacturers are building stronger, more effective relationships with public and private sector partners and we are already seeing a real difference in the resources supporting these needs."
~Ross Lienhart
CEO, PCC Structurals

Investing In Our Industry and The Region’s Future

 

Coalition members manufacture metal products and focus on infrastructure engineering, such as roads and bridges. A volunteer board, drawn from our region’s most successful and innovative manufacturing companies, guides MFG’s activities on behalf of our industry.


Investors in the Manufacturing 21 Coalition receive:

 

A seat at the table with the architects of our industry’s future:

 

Coalition members are confronting directly the barriers to growth of manufacturing in the Northwest. Today, members are bringing investments and relationships that will sustain tomorrow’s research and design, workforce education and capital investments. MFG 21 has established itself as a forward-thinking, credible voice of the industry. We’ve built a solid foundation for our work. Our growing influence increases the reach of our Coalition.


Participation in our work is not a charitable or philanthropic exercise. Participation in Manufacturing 21 is an investment in durable prosperity for manufacturing in Oregon and Southwest Washington. 

TThe coalition sees itself as a portfolio manager, using its collective voice and influence to create and manage portfolios of activity and resources for the benefit of our industry, workers and our communities. This investment portfolio approach has yielded big results with more to come:  

  • Manufacturing 21 has led the Northwest Manufacturing Initiative. This has guided federal investments to partner institutions to build new, sustainable programs and services to support the long-term needs of our industry.
  • Manufacturing is a target industry for a $5 million Department of Labor WIRED grant to eight counties in northern Oregon. MFG 21 has a chair on the grant’s steering committee and will play a key role in determining how the grant will be used to transform the delivery of training services to our companies and employees.
  • Manufacturing 21 has provided the leadership for our industry’s engagement with higher education institutions, Washington State, Vancouver, Portland State, Oregon State, University of Oregon and Oregon Institute of Technology. This has produced a new level of cooperation across institutional boundaries and the proposed creation of a unique model, known as the Northwest Collaboratory for Sustainable Manufacturing.


A chance to be heard:

 

MFG 21 investors have a unique opportunity to speak from the floors of our factories and be heard in our state capitols, in Congress, in the popular press and in every planning room considering the future of business in our region.

 

Become a Manufacturing 21 Coalition member. Please contact us or call Norm Eder at (503) 802-4101.