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Article: Oregon Metals Initiative established to boost important state industry. (Industry News)
- Article from:
- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- November 1, 1990
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A growing Oregon industry employs 40,000 workers at generally high-wage jobs, but most Oregonians cannot name it. it's the metals industry.
Although Oregon comprises the nation's premier railcar builder, the center for U.S. aluminum smelting, a foremost precision metalcasting company and hundreds of small metalworking firms, most Oregonians do not think of this industry as a major contributor to the state's economy..
However, the Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI), a new $4 million venture of the federal and state governments, research institutions and Oregon metals companies, will help highlight this industry. This comes at a time when Oregon is ...