September 30, 2025 Publisher’s Letter

Volume 28 | Issue 3

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Here we are in the fourth quarter of 2025 already. There’s a lot of uncertainty about the economy, particularly as it relates to the effects of tariffs. What isn’t uncertain is our continuing in-depth coverage of manufacturers and the issues that confront them in this latest edition of the Industry Today digital magazine.

We profile five manufacturers from a variety of industry segments. In the food sector, we feature both a third-generation family-owned maker of Hispanic deli meats, Cibao® Meat Products, as well as Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S. that brings a broad beverage portfolio to the Southeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Brownlee-Morrow is another family-owned business that provides air handling, liquid handling, process and motor control equipment and services. Read about how the company has grown over nearly 75 years, still pumped to meet the growing needs of municipal and industrial customers.

Wisconsin-based Urban Manufacturing designs and produces custom engineered and machined components. The company’s outstanding reputation for manufacturing and engineering know-how helps maintain its leading position as a supplier of choice regardless of changing economic conditions.

Maier America manufactures, services, and repairs rotary joints, what CEO Rob Kuehl touts as a “hidden champion”—a product that is not well-known but is extremely important to a variety of industry applications involving the transfer of liquid or gas media to stationary parts.

Shifting to the robust growth in Connecticut’s manufacturing sector, John Bourdeaux, President & CEO of Advance Connecticut, describes the next-generation pipeline of new corporate investment and expansions. In New Jersey, the state’s Strategic Innovation Centers offer a model for sustained and inclusive economic growth, as detailed by Kathleen Coviello, Chief Economic Transformation Officer for New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). And Pittsburgh is powering the future of advanced manufacturing, where according to Stefani Pashman, CEO of Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the city is continuing its long standing reputation as a global center for manufacturing innovation.

Since 2010, the Reshoring Initiative has built and maintained the nation’s most comprehensive database of reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) cases. Harry Moser, Founder and President of the Reshoring Initiative® and Kathy Nunnally, President of Regions Recruiting® explain how it has been a vital resource for understanding and advancing domestic production.

Educating tomorrow’s workforce is a key challenge for manufacturers. Dan Quinonez – Chief Operating Officer of the Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors (PHCC) National Association and the Executive Director of the PHCC Educational Foundation, describes how to motivate the next generation of trade professionals. And Ragnar von Schiber, Head of K-12 STEM education initiatives at Genentech, explains how the company inspires the biotech innovators of tomorrow to meet the challenges of advancing science for the greater good.

How do large-format additive manufacturing connects creativity and precision in today’s most demanding fabrication projects? Chris Lanio, CNC Programmer and CAMM Machinist at Dimensional Innovations provides details on how his company accomplishes it.

As always, you can get the latest updates on what is happening in manufacturing and industry on a daily basis at Industry Today. Thanks for reading and participating in the digital platform of choice for C-level executives and industry influencers.

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