MANUFACTURING VARIABLES RECESSION’S IMPACT
SECTOR EMPLOYS 29,800 PEOPLE IN AREA
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Joe Fancher, general manager of Brunner & Lay Inc. in Springdale holds a coupler made at the Springdale facility.
Photo by Carin Schoppmeyer
Brunner & Lay in Springdale soon plans to add 50 to 60 employees. It could be a signal that local manufacturers are starting to follow a national trend of growth. The Institute for Supply Management released February 2010 numbers showing the manufacturing industry grew nationally for the seventh consecutive month. Kathy Deck, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas’ Sam M. Walton College of Business, said Northwest Arkansas, like the rest of the state, has seen a decline in manufacturing employment since the mid-1990s because of outsourcing and increased automation. There are 29,800 jobs in Northwest Arkansas’ manufacturing sector, which Deck said is the lowest it’s been since July 1991. But she ...
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Business, Pages 21 on 03/21/2010
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