Article: South Florida Manufacturing Association Encourages Businesses to Buy Local.

By Marcia Heroux, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 6--A flashy advertising campaign probably would be wasted on Hialeah Metal Spinning Inc. It's hard to make a metal component sexy.

But round metal parts made by the Hialeah manufacturer are useful, providing, for example, support in the base of a lampshade or the funnel in a juicing machine.

So how does a company like Hialeah Metal Spinning get the word out about what it makes?

The South Florida Manufacturing Association has a solution: an event on Tuesday with the theme, "Do You Buy/Sell South Florida?"

The idea is to get South ...

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