NEWS DESK WHAT’S NEW IN MANUFACTURING n Manufacturing Jobs Grab Spotlight in 2014 M
onthly US manufacturing employment gains last year more than doubled from 2013, picking up a total of 193,000 manufacturing jobs during the past 12 months, the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its most recent monthly report. Manufacturing added an average of 16,000 jobs a month in 2014, up from an average of 7000 jobs a month the year before. In December, manufacturing employment increased by 17,000, with durable goods accounting for 13,000 of the boost. In all, US manufacturing jobs totaled 12.24 million nonseasonally adjusted jobs during December, according to preliminary bureau fi gures.
The US ended the year with the most manufacturing jobs
on record since 2008, when 13.4 million workers were em- ployed in the sector. US manufacturing jobs peaked at 19.4 million in 1979.
In all, US total nonfarm payroll employment surged by 252,000 jobs in December as the US unemployment rate declined to 5.6% from 5.8% in November.
Tennessee Will be Home to Composites Manufacturing Institute
P
resident Barack Obama on Jan. 9 announced that a 122-member consortium, working with the US De- partment of Energy, will oversee an advanced manu- facturing institute aimed at speeding development of new composite materials. The group will be known as the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, and be led by the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the university said in a statement on its website.
The composites institute, to be based in Knoxville, will be part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), an initiative of the Obama administration to speed de- velopment of advanced manufacturing. The institute had been announced previously, but a location hadn’t been selected. The Tennessee institute will concentrate on advanced
fi ber-reinforced polymer composites, such as carbon fi ber, that are lighter and stronger than steel. Goals of the institute include developing lower-cost and more energy effi cient manufacturing processes for composite materials, as well as fi nding ways to make the materials easier to recycle.
The composites group
will receive $70 million from the US Depart- ment of Energy and $189 million from partners in the institute, according to the university’s state- ment. Other consortium members include the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Renewable
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