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		<title>Safety first, everything else second</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3219</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Safety Sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing is a matter of life and death. Ask company owners what that statement means, and they might reply that every strong country needs a robust manufacturing sector. Ask manufacturing workers the same question, and they will tell you it's about their ability to go home safely to their families. They know the everyday risks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The model of a modern major fabricator</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3209</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Heston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at&t merger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer diversification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[t mobile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Wiseman is honest. “We’ve forecast about a 15 percent growth this year, but mind you that 2011 was terrible for us.” The vice president of operations at Nu-Way Industries--part of our Fab 40 list of top U.S. fabricators, to be featured next month--knew that when the AT&#38;T and T-Mobile merger fell apart, the fabricator’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a ride in a battery-powered what?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3202</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lundin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t that long ago that Alessandro Volta built the first battery. In 1800 he made a stack of metal plates, alternating zinc and copper, with each pair separated by layers of cloth soaked in brine. Today’s batteries are more sophisticated but use the same principle to create electromotive force, or EMF. The basic unit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great asset of a graying manufacturing work force</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3180</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Heston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elder work force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graying work force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machinist shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skilled Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skilled labor shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welder shortage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I spoke with Frederick Hartman at Needham, Mass.-based Vita Needle, a company unique in several respects. The metal fabricator allowed Caitrin Lynch, associate professor of anthropology at the Olin College of Engineering, also in Needham, to spend five years at the stainless steel tubing and needle manufacturer. Oh, and one more thing: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How healthy is your business?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3176</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabricating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first quarter 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first quarter of 2012 is behind us. Companies of all sizes are examining their first quarter results to gauge how well they are doing and plan for the months ahead. Investors wait anxiously for corporations to tally, massage, report, and spin their figures, comparing them to economists' predictions and the previous year's performance—better or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private equity and the fabricator</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3172</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Heston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[efficiency experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[return on investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Roberts Co., a major industrial fabricator in the Southeast and one of this year's FAB 40 companies (to be published in our June issue), probably wouldn't be the company it is today without Private Equity. Since Main Street Resources purchased the company in 2008, just months before the financial crash, Roberts Co. has benefited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How long has this been going on?</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3160</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcellus Shale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welder shortage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How long have we been talking about a welder shortage? If you type "welder shortage" with the quotation marks in thefabricator.com's search box, you will retrieve a list of 367 articles; without the quotation marks, the list grows to 619.  The very first article in both searches, "Feeling the effects of a welder shortage: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The risks and rewards of genetic engineering</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3155</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lundin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Going Green]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It could be a dream come true or the latest scene in a long nightmare. Dow AgroSciences has developed a genetically engineered corn, named Enlist, to withstand herbicides containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). The chemical was developed with the intention of helping to increase crop yields by eliminating nutrient-robbing weeds from farmers’ fields, and these days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing on the rise; pay not so much</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3148</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shop Soapbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to the guys at Yale University to screw up a simple headline. I came across this article--"U.S. Battle to Revive Manufacturing—Part I" in YaleGlobal Online Magazine—but really didn't get sucked into it until I read the subhead "Job growth urged by U.S. presidential candidates may not support high standard of living." Now that's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Producing more, hiring less</title>
		<link>http://blog.thefabricator.com/?p=3141</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lundin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry Trends & Analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’re still slogging through the jobless recovery, and while slowly falling unemployment took many by surprise in 2010 and 2011, I guess most of us have resigned ourselves to looking for reasons. There isn’t much else we can do. Before we look for reasons, let’s look at the trend. If we go back six decades [...]]]></description>
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