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509 22,233 51% METALS & MACHINERY Benchmade A Manufacturing Powerhouse Greater Portland is home to firms that manufacture highly specialized products, including Freightliners from Daimler Trucks, passenger ferries and cargo ships at Vigor Industrial, and aerospace parts from Boeing. Other Portland-area firms include Schnitzer Steel and Precision Castparts. The region’s metals and machinery sector is outperforming its national peers in job growth by 10 percent. INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT 509 Total number of establishments 22,233 Total employment in metals and machinery industries 51% Manufacturers in Oregon account for 22%, or Employment growth versus $49.4 billion, of the state’s total economic output. the national average TOP METALS + MACHINERY FIRMS IN GREATER PORTLAND 10% Job growth outperforming Precision Castparts Vigor Industrial Leatherman Tool national peers in metals and Corp. 1,230 employees Group machinery sector. 3,849 employees 503 employees Greenbrier Schnitzer Steel 1,103 employees EVRAZ North 3,183 employees America A-dec 450 employees Daimler Trucks North 1,100 employees America Blount International 3,000 employees 527 employees The Boeing Company 1,500 employees —PBJ Book of Lists, 2019 SUCCESS STORIES BOEING OREGON MANUFACTURING The aerospace company employs over 1,500 at its plant INNOVATION CENTER in Gresham, where it makes parts for its jets. These parts The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center (OMIC) include a component used to extend and retract wing is a partnership between industry leaders, research flaps during flight. This is Boeing’s largest machine shop institutions and local agencies that provides advanced and provides components to every Boeing aircraft. technical training for the region’s workforce while developing new tools, techniques and technologies that PRECISION CASTPARTS address real-world manufacturing challenges facing the Founded in 1953, Portland-based Precision Castparts industry. There is no other training facility like OMIC in Corp. (PCC) is a global manufacturer of complex metal the United States. components and products. The company produces castings, forgings, nickel and specialty alloys, seamless Greater Portland vs. the national average: pipes, refiner plates, fasteners, and other related The concentration of products used for aerospace, industrial manufacturing, iron and steel energy, chemical processing, oil and gas, and pollution 2X manufacturing control industries. After a 2016 acquisition, PCC is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. VIGOR DAIMLER In 2017, Portland-based shipbuilder Vigor Industrial Portland is home to Daimler Trucks North America, the won a nearly $1 billion, 10-year contract to build a new continent’s leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer. The generation of U.S. Army landing craft. Vigor chose company produces and markets commercial vehicles Vancouver, Washington over Seattle for the project’s under the Freightliner, Western Star and Thomas Built manufacturing site. The shipbuilder is investing millions Buses nameplates. Soon, Daimler’s Portland campus in capital upgrades and equipment to the Vancouver will also house its new Automated Truck Research and riverfront site, which will employ as many as 400 skilled Development Center, which will develop automated workers. Vigor CEO Frank Foti praised Vancouver’s driving technology while exploring its impact on quality of life. “There is a culture of openness and society and benefits for customers. “We are pioneering friendliness that really draws you. There is great access technologies across the automated vehicle spectrum to both rural and suburban living, which appeals to a that make roads safer and help trucking companies great number of our craftspeople.” boost productivity,” said Sven Ennerst, head of truck product engineering and global procurement. Greater Portland vs. the national average: The concentration of metal product foundry 5X manufacturing Grand opening of Mercari offices in Greater Portland. METALS & MACHINERY ECOSYSTEM IRON + STEEL PLASTICS + POLYMERS MACHINERY MANUFACTURING Apex Industries Inc MANUFACTURING Alaskan Copper & Brass Co. Cascade Window Balzer Pacific Equipment Co Calstrip Northwest Inc Kaso Plastics Blount International Ideal Steel Inc Kinetics Inc Columbia Steel Casting Co Inc Northwest Pipe Co. Cornell Pump Co Oregon Metal Slitters Inc LIGHT METALS, Cranston Machinery Co Inc Pro-Tech Industries COMPOSITES, DRAWING, Ebara Technologies Inc Rose City Steel EXTRUDING J V Northwest Inc Sapa Extrusions Inc A-Dec Inc. Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business Service Steel Inc Bodycote IMT Inc Micropump Inc Schnitzer Steel Columbia Machine Inc Pacific Machinery & Tool Steel Peterson Cat Davis Tool Inc Pierce Pacific Mfg Inc FERROUS + NON- ESCO Corp Rockmore International Inc FERROUS METAL Helser Industries Rogers Machinery Co Ionbond LLC FOUNDRY PRODUCTS Skutt Ceramics Inc Consolidated Metco Inc Oregon Iron Works Sonsray Machinery Eagle Foundry Co Pentagon EMS Stanley Hydraulic Tools McGuire Bearing Co Pioneer Metal Finishing Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc Maiden Foundry Portland Bolt & Mfg Co Western Integrated Tech Precision Castparts Corp Qorvo Vancouver Iron & Steel Inc SAPA Anodizing Inc Thortex Advance Metal Tech MOTOR VEHICLE, Treske Precision Machining Inc AIRCRAFT, SHIP FABRICATED METALS MANUFACTURING Canron Western Constructors Cascade General Inc Evraz North America SAW BLADE + HANDTOOL Daimler Trucks North America Farwest Steel Reinforcing MANUFACTURING PECO Manufacturing Fought & Co Benchmade QPM Aerospace H W Metal Products Inc Carter Cutlery Temco Metal Products McDowell Welding & Pipe Inc Coast Cutlery Vigor Industrial Marks Metal Technology Inc CRKT The Boeing Company Metu-Streimer Gerber P & A Metal Fab Inc Kershaw Pella Vinyl Portland Leatherman Tool Group Rolok Products William Henry, Inc. The Greenbrier Companies Thompson Metal Fab Inc Transco Industries Inc Triax Metal Products Inc —JIAC Metals and Machinery US Metal Works, Inc. Manufacturing Report EDUCATED & ENGAGED METALS + MACHINERY TALENT POOL ENGINEERING GRADUATES CIVIL ENGINEERING: Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees PhDs 3,370 employees AVG. SALARY $85,440 Annual engineering graduates from Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Portland, Washington ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS: State University, Oregon Institute of Technology and George 2,380 employees Fox University: AVG. SALARY $92,460 Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS: 3,520 employees 420 BS 254 BS AVG. SALARY $100,890 86 MS 186 MS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: 6 PhD 20 PhD 420 employees AVG. SALARY $88,660 INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY Civil Engineering MECHANICS: 2,860 employees —National Center for 218 BS Educational Statistics, 2018 AVG. SALARY $59,130 81 MS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 13 PhD TECHNICIANS: 420 employees AVG. SALARY $52,130 ASSOCIATE’S DEGREES FOR MILLWRIGHTS: WELDING + MACHINISTS 460 employees AVG. SALARY $64,300 CHARTER 47 COLLEGE STRUCTURAL METAL FABRICATORS + FITTERS: CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY 33 COLLEGE 1,330 employees AVG. SALARY $47,270 CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY 25 COLLEGE ASSEMBLERS + FABRICATORS CLARK 81 ALL OTHERS: COLLEGE 8,190 employees MT HOOD COMMUNITY 76 COLLEGE AVG. SALARY $33,240 PORTLAND COMMUNITY 268 COLLEGE MACHINISTS: 2,510 employees —National Center for Educational Statistics, 2018 AVG. SALARY $47,190 OTHER METAL + PLASTIC GREATER PORTLAND APPRENTICESHIP MANUFACTURING: PROGRAMS 9,880 employees AVG. SALARY $30K - $44K • American Laborers • Union Pacific NW Apprenticeship Ironworkers • Oregon/SW Washington • Portland Sheet Carpenters Metal Workers HANDS-ON TRAINING PSU MATERIALS + MANUFACTURING RESEARCH CENTER This center conducts research for partners in Oregon through the Oregon Metals Initiative and the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center (OMIC). Facilities include: • Ondine Lab (PSU campus) Metallography + mechanical testing • Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Research - thermal condition and micro-joint reliability and testing and analysis • Pepco Lab (OMSI campus) macro-joining and welding engineering lab CLARK COLLEGE MECHATRONICS LAB This facility is unique as the only mechatronics lab on the West Coast to offer two-year degrees. State-of-the-art electrical and mechanical equipment provides hands-on learning. Coursework includes soft-skills training, as well as project management, business models and technical writing. The average student is 35 years old and the program graduates 12 students per year on average—many of whom have job offers before graduation. The program works with an industrial advisory council of local companies to ensure it meets business needs. CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL CENTER This educational and training facility co-located with the Beaver Creek Employment Area is a hub for Clackamas County’s advanced manufacturing and technology clusters. By hosting manufacturing, renewable energy, machining and other in- demand career technical education programs, the facility provides training for family-wage jobs and/or paves the way to transfer to a four-year university. Portland is the #1 place for business ‘‘and careers. —Forbes, 2017 ‘ ‘ GLOBAL CONNECTIONS America’s Best Airport Portland International Airport has been voted “America’s Best Airport” in Travel+Leisure magazine’s reader survey seven years in a row (2013-2019), and was ranked No. 1 in airport satisfaction by J.D. Power (Sept. 2019). Reykjavik Non-stop 74 destinations Vancouver BC Calgary Amsterdam Toronto London Daily non-stop New York Frankfurt 263 passenger departures Chicago Washington
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