Reports
Minnesota Technology Landscape Overview
Prepared exclusively for MNCEME by Guideline, Inc.
Executive Summary
The Minnesota Center for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence (MNCEME) is chartered to build partnerships between higher education, business, and industry, and to stimulate economic development through education, training, and applied research. Currently, MNCEME has an initiative to gain a better understanding of the engineering and manufacturing development landscape in the State of Minnesota. With the present project Guideline aims to support this initiative by defining Minnesota’s technology strengths, identifying key small and mid-sized Minnesota manufacturing companies, examining core areas of technology development led by Minnesota innovators, identifying emerging technologies for which Minnesota is in a good position to gain a dominant position, and recommending curricular changes needed to support growth in the identified industries.
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Executive Summary
Some Manufacturer’s find California Cheaper than China
CP Lab Safety was worried about escalating product costs. So it decided to move its manufacturing overseas – to California.
After more than seven years of using a contract manufacturer in China’s Guangdong province, the Novato company this spring shifted production of its Eco Funnel and some 80 other products in its portfolio to Wright Engineered Plastics in Santa Rosa.
It was a no-brainer for CP Lab Safety CEO Kelly Farhangi: “In the U.S., you can manufacture on a cost comparable to China.”
