America Invented This Technology. Now We Make Only 4% of It
America invented the circuit board but now makes less than 4% of the world's supply. Team AAM goes behind the scenes of the documentary "The New Frontier," hearing from Wesley Sprecher of Blue Water C...
18 Touko 12min
Why This RIT Professor is Betting on Veterans to Grow American Manufacturing
American manufacturing needs workers — and veterans need a path back to work. Today, AAM President Scott Paul speaks with Dr. Martin Anselm, Director of the Center for Electronics Manufacturing and As...
4 Touko 36min
The Virginia Chime Maker That Has Outlasted Four Decades of Imports
What started in a garage with pipe from the hardware store is now a 90-person factory shipping nearly a thousand wind chimes a day. Today, Scott Paul speaks with Luke Croushorn of Wind River, the Mana...
20 Huhti 33min
The Singer-Songwriter Who Invented a Better Way to Crack Crabs
In Maryland, you learn to crack a crab before you learn to walk - but Shelby Blondell decided the tools you use to do it deserved a serious upgrade. One night in 2017, Shelby picked up the traditional...
6 Huhti 36min
How Two People Turned a Trip to Germany Into a Brooklyn Business Empire
What happens when a cartographer and a fashion stylist go to Germany and fall in love with a canvas bag? They come home and build an American business that celebrates hometown pride with every product...
23 Maalis 38min
Why This Silicon Valley Academic Chose Wood, Puzzles, and American Manufacturing
What happens when an electrical engineering professor decides to skip the MBA and just… start a business? For Dr. Maya Gupta, it led to Artifact Puzzles — one of the most distinctive puzzle companies ...
9 Maalis 36min
How China Evades American Tariffs and Gets Away With It
Winning a court case against unfair trade should mean justice, but for many American manufacturers, it doesn't. And it's costing them billions. Today, David Rashid of auto-parts maker Plews & Edelman...
23 Helmi 40min
A Factory That Refused to Die
Buying a business is hard. Holding and growing it for decades is even harder. Today, Gat Caperton shares how he acquired a struggling West Virginia furniture maker at age 29 and spent nearly three dec...
9 Helmi 33min
