What’s New In 3D Printing?

In terms of technology, it doesn’t get much cooler than 3D printing. This cutting edge technique has enabled manufacturers and makers to create an incredible variety of 3D objects–it’s not just black ink and white paper anymore. And after revelations about how food of the future may come from a printer, or how printed prosthetic […]

The American Challenge in Manufacturing

Behlen Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Nebraska is metal fabricator of livestock equipment, metal buildings, and grain bins. The metal fabrication company has been around since 1936 when Walter Behlen began working out of his garage in the small town in Nebraska. Today, Behlen Manufacturing Company has grown into something much bigger. A recent article published […]

Greater Omaha Business Excellence Awards Celebrate Nebraskan Innovation and More

There’s no doubt that success is sometimes due to a lucky break, opportune timing, or just plain unadulterated chance (ever read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers?”). But on the other hand, the majority of successful innovators and businesses generally involve a high dose of hard work and drive, along with a desire to improve the world or […]

3 Ways to Sharpen Your STEM Skills This Summer

At the beginning of 2014, we recapped a few goals for manufacturing students (and all students, really) to sharpen their STEM skills. It’s critical to strengthen abilities in science, technology, engineering, and math to pursue a future in a skilled trade or manufacturing industry, and what better time to do so than when you are […]

Happy Memorial Day

From all of us here at NeMAC, we’d like to wish all of our readers and friends a happy and safe Memorial Day. We extend our thanks and gratitude to all those men and women who have bravely served our country. — photo credit: atomicshark via photopin cc

Four Reasons Manufacturing Is Returning to the United States

If you’ve been following this blog, you read about the good news this week: manufacturing is growing in the U.S. Indeed, after decades of negative growth, fewer American companies are shipping production overseas. Over the last four years, American manufacturing has grown by about 650,000 jobs. But why exactly has there been a rebound? Here […]

By The Numbers: Manufacturing Is Looking Good!

In a time where manufacturing just can’t seem to stay out of the news (for good reason, of course!), the good news just keeps on coming. Early numbers are out for May, and all around the country, manufacturing is looking very good! Here in the Midwest, things look strong. According to a survey today from […]

ConAgra Foods: Always Hiring Nebraskans!

In a post last week, we mentioned the success of recent Nebraskan grads being hired by a wide variety of companies. In particular, it always feels gratifying when Nebraskans live, work, and volunteer in their home state. This is only made possible when companies located in Nebraska, headquarters or not, commit to hiring graduates from […]

Manufacturers in Nebraska: DI Manufacturing

The gluten-free phenomenon has been with us for a while now. You’ve probably seen gluten-free cookbooks in bookstores and gluten-free menus at restaurants. You may have even sampled some food specifically prepared sans-gluten. Gluten is a composition of two different proteins that nourishes plant embryos and makes baked dough chewier. Gluten is found in wheat, […]

Nebraskan Grads Having Great Luck Landing Jobs

This past weekend, the commencement ceremonies at several Nebraska Universities sent off a new class of graduates with best wishes and a framed diploma, ready for job hunting and finding the path to their eventual career. Amidst the excitement and happiness surrounding the completion of four (or two, or one) years of rigorous study in […]