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Windsor man appointed Connecticut's first 'power procurement manager'
Post-Chronicle
Gaudiosi, 39, has worked with the Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut since 1997. In his role with the alliance, Gaudiosi developed an expertise in energy issues, creating and managing a power and natural gas purchasing pool for industrial

Connecticut lawmakers give Obama speech high marks
The Connecticut Mirror
By Ana Radelat Washington -- In his address to the nation Tuesday night, President Obama called for a rebirth of manufacturing, a fairer tax system and a stronger community college system. Most Connecticut lawmakers agreed with the president's ...
Connecticut

Unemployment rate in Connecticut drops to 8.2 percent, lowest figure since May ...
The Republic
The manufacturing sector lost 1500 jobs. State officials say Connecticut has recovered about 29 percent of the 119200 jobs that were lost during the recession that ran from March 2008 to January 2010.

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State dips its toe in 'Lean' process
TheNewsTribune.com
He's part of a state “Lean” manufacturing experiment. Inside the Stafford Creek state prison, an inmate serving time for murder works quietly at a desk, using computer-assisted-design tools. He is putting final touches on a blueprint for a bunk bed ...
Gregoire

Sacred Heart University Names Two New Trustees
TheDay.com
Martin is an avid champion for employee volunteerism and has received The Volunteer Center for Southwestern Connecticut's “Heart of Gold” award for his dedication to employee community involvement. A native of Delaware, Ressel started her corporate ...

Former East Granby Teacher Killed
NBC Connecticut
Stanley Kochanek has been a member of the Manufacturing Technology Center staff at Asnuntuck Community College since 2008. He teaches Metallurgy, Metrology, Math and has taught many other courses during his tenure at Asnuntuck, school offcials said.

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Plainfield Renewable Energy Starts Development of 37.5-Megawatt Biomass ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, and eight offices outside of North America, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and

With Geared Turbofan Orders In Hand, Pratt Priming Its CT Suppliers For Huge ...
Hartford Courant
Cooper and Paul, both Pratt alumni, have been buying up Connecticut aerospace factories since they founded Whitcraft, with the latest purchase — of Farmington's Dell Manufacturing — coming in December. This year, they project the company will have

CT economy forecast to grow up to 4% this year
Norwich Bulletin
He cited trends including a “burgeoning” middle class worldwide, changes in energy markets, improving profitability among Connecticut manufacturers, and increasing exports. Citing results of a CBIA survey that found 70 percent of the state's ...
Economist sees partly sunny forecast

Malloy to Plug Connecticut in Switzerland
CT Newsjunkie
“I want people to understand that Connecticut has attributes that many other states don't have and specifically with a concentration on precision manufacturing and aerospace and what that represents,” he said. Malloy said the conference will give him a ...
Malloy to attend

Medical Implant Manufacturer Is First In CT's Small Business Subsidy Program
Hartford Courant
By MARA LEE maralee@courant.com The Hartford Courant Oxford Performance Materials, which has benefited from Connecticut's support four times since 2001, was celebrated Wednesday by the governor, legislators and Department of Economic and Community

Conn. AG announces judgment against dairy manufacturer
Legal News Line
BY BRYAN COHEN HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and state Department of Energy Commissioner Daniel Etsy have announced a judgment resolving a lawsuit against a Newington dairy manufacturer that allegedly ...

Conn. loses energy complaint despite paying lawyers $4.6 million, begins ...
Watchdog
In all, Connecticut paid for the equivalent of one person working full time for six-and-a-half years on the case at an average cost of $336 per hour. Connecticut argued the three companies – Brookfield Energy Marketing Inc., Constellation Energy ...

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Hiring Logjam Breaks As CEOs See Demand for Fastest U.S. Growth Since 2006
Bloomberg
'Pretty Decent' “The ground seems to be set for a pretty decent near-term outlook for manufacturing,” said Stephen Stanley, chief economist for Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut. “There's still room for job growth there if demand

Local firm has stake in chopper
Charleston Post Courier
Sikorsky is putting up about 75 percent of the production costs, and the remaining quarter is being spread among “sponsor” suppliers, like TIGHITCO, said Frans Jurgens, a spokesman for the Connecticut-based helicopter manufacturer. ...
Meggitt plc : Sikorsky chooses Meggitt for S-97

Subway expects to add 25000 jobs this year
QSRweb.com
The Subway restaurant chain, based in Connecticut, projects it will add 25000 full- and part-time jobs by the end of 2012. The estimate comes after the company announced it expects to open 2500 new outlets this year. The 2012 forecast is similar to the ...
SUBWAY® Adds

Connecticut Spring & Stamping at MD&M West
Today's Medical Developments
Connecticut Spring & Stamping (CSS), a manufacturer of precision parts for the medical, aerospace, firearms and defense industries worldwide, announces that it will be featuring its medical product components at MD&M West 2012, at the Anaheim ...

For One Small Manufacturer, Trade Mission Pays Off Fast
Hartford Courant
Courtney, Evans and representatives from nine Connecticut manufacturers — including AeroCision — traveled to England last April, in the hopes of selling more Connecticut products. AeroCision, formerly Pye & Hogan of Old Saybrook, already had a ...

Highlights from the Fed's Beige Book economic survey of 12 regional bank districts
Washington Post
Here are some highlights: BOSTON (includes Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and part of Connecticut): Most businesses reported modest revenue growth compared to a year earlier. Retailers were more positive

37.5 MW Waste Gasification Facility for Connecticut
Waste Management World
The PRE project is owned by a subsidiary of Enova Energy Group and located on a 27-acre site in Plainfield, Connecticut. The developers claimed that the new plant will employ Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to control emissions and will be

Manufacturing Careers Explored at ?GCC
Connecticut Business News Journal
Parents interested in learning more about advanced manufacturing careers are particularly encouraged to come to learn about Connecticut's manufacturing sector. “Manufacturing companies are looking to fill open positions,” says Karen Wosczyna-Birch, ...

Manufacturing Growth Industries Seek Common Solutions at Mfg4, May 8-10 ...
PR Web (press release)
Professionals from these industries will share solutions to their common manufacturing challenges at Mfg4 – Manufacturing for the Future, a new event produced by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to be held May 8-10, 2012, at the Connecticut

OPEL Solar, Inc. Supplies GES USA with 4.6 Megawatts of Tracker Systems
MarketWatch (press release)
SHELTON, CONNECTICUT AND TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OPEL Solar, Inc. and OPEL Technologies Inc. /quotes/zigman/6419487 CA:OPL +3.90% (collectively "OPEL" or "the Company"), a leading global supplier

SAIC, Enova Energy Group, The Carlyle Group Launch $225 Million Plainfield ...
Sacramento Bee
The PRE project is owned by a subsidiary of Enova Energy Group and located on a 27-acre site in Plainfield, Connecticut. The plant will employ Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to control emissions and is fully certified as a renewable

PAS Technologies Names New CEO
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Mr. Hutton earned degrees in Manufacturing Engineering from Greater New Haven State Technical College in 1985 and in Industrial Technology-Manufacturing from Central Connecticut State University in 1989. Mr. Hutton was also a Sloan Fellow at the ...

Speculators Increase Bullish Wagers Most Since '10: Commodities
BusinessWeek
“You've been seeing a risk-on trade across the board, not just in commodities,” said John Bailey, the founder and chief executive officer of Stamford, Connecticut-based Spruce Private Investors LLC, which advises investors holding about $3 billion of ...

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Jackson Laboratory Provides Bioscience Linchpin
Hartford Courant
Research and development companies and institutions account for almost half the bioscience workforce, manufacturing just 24 percent. Unfortunately, the business costs for manufacturers in Connecticut are very high; other states tend to attract the ...

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Reinvent Connecticut – still time to register for business workshops
Mansfield Today
Manufacturing Reinvestment Account (MRA) program – was expanded to help even more small manufacturers in Connecticut invest more in their businesses. Subsidized Training & Employment Program (STEP) – will provide funding to small businesses and

Okay Industries To Open New Plant In Town
Patch.com
The company is developing a 63000-square-foot medical engineering and manufacturing plant on New Park Drive in Berlin. By Robert Mayer After a century of success in New Britain, Okay Industries, Inc. reaffirmed its commitment to Connecticut today with ...

Jobs Initiative Seeks To Match Skills With Manufacturers
CT Newsjunkie
On Wednesday morning he had the chance to interview with about 20 manufacturers looking to hire. He was one of around 20 job seekers to attend the Connecticut Manufacturing Job Match at the Marriott Hotel in Rocky Hill. The new initiative by US Rep. ...
Job-Match Event Connects

Answering The State's Biggest Challenge: Jobs
Hartford Courant
A thousand jobs in high-skilled manufacturing are reportedly going begging in Connecticut. Schools must do better at preparing students for them. Coddle small businesses. They are the engine of job growth, as the saying goes. ...

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Introducing the Connecticut Manufacturing Job Match Initiative
Journal Inquirer
Three years into a historic economic downturn, job creation remains the most important obstacle to recovery in Connecticut and around the country. While the economy is being held back by high unemployment and a continuing foreclosure crisis, ...

Mandatory sick leave, begins Jan. 1 for businesses
Greenwich Post
When manufacturers decide to withdraw funds for the program's express purposes, money withdrawn will be taxed at a rate of 3.5%, regardless of the companies' corporate or business structure. CBIA is Connecticut's largest business organization, ...

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New London businesswoman thinking big about small business
TheDay.com
It is the only such center located at a community college in the state, with the other small-business centers scattered across the state's other universities, Eastern Connecticut in Willimantic, Western Connecticut in Danbury, Central Connecticut in ...

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Op-Ed | UCONN Tuition Hikes Reveal Disconnect with New Economy
CT Newsjunkie
The University of Connecticut's recent tuition hikes, though, will make it more difficult for thousands of students to rise to meet this challenge. UCONN's Board of Trustees voted this week to dramatically raise tuition at the state's flagship ...

State seeking development proposals for Sunrise State Park
TheDay.com
DEEP will work with the developer to create a destination location for the Connecticut State Park system offering public access, recreation and economic opportunity. “DEEP is looking to engage in an innovative public-private partnership to return ...

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Blumenthal works on the edges, out of the spotlight (WITH VIDEOS)
Torrington Register Citizen
... training focused on the openings that exist,” Blumenthal said, stressing the need for Connecticut to enhance the role of its state higher education system in courting businesses that play roles in computer-operated manufacturing to locate here. ...

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A review of Connecticut laws impacting business
Westfair Online
The new “First Five” program provides incentives to companies already in Connecticut and those that would locate here that create at least 200 jobs in the state. The Manufacturing Reinvestment Account allows 100 manufacturers, with 50 employees or less ...

Ct. Company Keeps Those Sleigh Bells Jingling
NPR
And chances are many of the bells you hear this holiday season can be sourced to one small, family-owned manufacturing business in Connecticut. Bevin Brothers was founded 180 years ago. In addition to the delivery of gifts, the sounds of bells announce ...

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Chet Zaslow Joins Reell Precision Manufacturing as Northeast Regional Sales ...
Benzinga (press release)
Chet is a native of Connecticut and will be serving Reell customers in the Northeastern United States from his office in West Hartford. Reell Precision Manufacturing provides high-quality innovative solutions to transmit torque, control angular

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions and Pittman Motors Join Forces
Today's Medical Developments
North American design teams are located in Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Additional field sales engineers are located throughout North America. In Europe, Haydon Kerk and Pittman engineering resources are deployed in ...

Anatomy of a deal: How NBC Sports landed in Stamford
Stamford Advocate
... Steven Wise, of Steven Wise Associates, and Clay Fowler, of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, along with the Connecticut Film Center, a company that provides financing, production services and facilities for television and film industries. ...

Malloy on November employment figures
Connectcut Plus
By Governor Dannel P. Malloy's office HARTFORD, CT - Governor Dannel P. Malloy today said that the news that Connecticut's unemployment rate has dropped to the lowest level since June 2009 is “encouraging,” but stressed that “more needs to be done in ...
Unemployment drops

US Baird site to become brewery
Stratford Star
Doering is Hittle's long-time friend, both having grown up and resided in Connecticut, and brings manufacturing, operations and financial expertise. The team is in discussions with several nationally recognized brewers to bring in a fourth partner, ...

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Westport shooter spotted in Philadelphia
WTNH
Witnesses told Connecticut Police the suspect had been to YZ Manufacturing before the shooting. Zeevi's associate, 48-year old Ronen Konfino of New York, was also shot in the incident, but he was able to dial 9-1-1 to get help. ...
Cops: Murder Suspect Natty and Knows DiamondsWestport

Incandescent Bulb Spared in U.S. Lawmakers' Spending Measure
San Francisco Chronicle
... model's pear shape -- according to Kyle Pitsor, vice president for government affairs at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, whose members include Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE and Royal Philips Electronics NV in Amsterdam. ...

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Good News on Manufacturing, Jobs Help Stocks Break Slump
HispanicBusiness.com
Readings higher than zero signal expansion among companies in the region, which covers New York, northern New Jersey and southern Connecticut. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's general economic index increased to 10.3 in December from 3.6,

Cigarette machines draw protests from state regulators
Joplin Globe
In August, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, on behalf of Kevin B. Sullivan, state commissioner of revenue services, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Hartford against Tracey's Smoke Shop and Tobacco LLC for illegally manufacturing ...

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Industrial Production in US Unexpectedly Fell in November
BusinessWeek
Readings greater than zero show companies in the so-called Empire State Index, which covers New York, northern New Jersey, and southern Connecticut, are boosting output. A separate central bank report today may show manufacturing across eastern ...
US industrial

New York Manufacturing Index Rises More Than Forecast to 9.5
BusinessWeek
Readings higher than zero signal expansion among companies in the so-called Empire State Index, which covers New York, northern New Jersey and southern Connecticut. Manufacturers may stay at the forefront of the economic expansion as they boost ...
US Industrial