Q2 2021 | Trade and Industry Development

Q2 2021

Trade & Industry Development Magazine

2021

This issue features several timely topics, including supply chain management and logistics, plastics, and metalworking and fabricating. In the COVID-19 era, the norms of supply chain logistics have been thrown out, and companies are discovering that the processes that once worked well to keep costs down are actually driving up the cost of doing business. In this issue, we feature several editorials that discuss the new challenges to supply chain, and how manufacturers, suppliers, warehouses and ports and depots are handling these new realities. 

In this issue

Michigan Ushers in the Next Chapter in Manufacturing, Workforce Readiness

BY: Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Manufacturing and innovation are in Michigan’s DNA. The state put the world on wheels more than a century ago, and now it is leading the charge into the next generation of transportation and advanced manufacturing. Building on its rich manufacturing heritage and technological know-how, Michigan is creating innovative, high-tech products of the future and forging a new path that is changing the way things are made – in manufacturing, global mobility, high-tech and beyond. more....