Posts Tagged“manufacturing”

What Are The Benefits of In-House Solvent Recycling Systems?

If you are an environmental health and safety manager working in manufacturing, you will no doubt have heard quite a lot about solvent waste, and solvent recycling systems. Most of the recommendations around these systems are different from the majority of solutions which we are offered in this industry, which usually include paying for someone to come and recycle or dispose of various waste products from the manufacturing process. With solvents however, we are encouraged to invest in solvent recycling systems, and then dealing with our solvents in-house. If you are at all skeptical about this then you shouldn’t be,…

How automation leads to new career opportunities in manufacturing

The manufacturing sector in the United States and most other western nations has seen an outward migration, with many jobs going to overseas, developing countries where the cost of labor is significantly cheaper. Indeed, U.S. manufacturing, which once accounted for 28 percent of all jobs in the early 1960s, has declined to less than 9 percent in 2011, according to a Deloitte University Press study. This decline in U.S. manufacturing was best highlighted in 2012, when President Barack Obama asked Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, if it was possible that the company might shift its iPhone manufacturing operations back…