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Manufacturing

—Mike McLean

Lloyd Industries' plan beyond pans

Company expands into manufacturing nonculinary items
May 25, 2017
Mike McLean
Lloyd Industries Inc., the prominent Spokane Valley pizza pan and bakeware maker, is expanding the nonculinary manufacturing side of its operations with the launch of a newly named affiliate, Lloyd Metal Fabrication, says Traci Rennaker, the company's p
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—Kaiser Aluminum Corp.

Kaiser ramps up plant investment at Trentwood

Massive plate shear part of $150 million in improvements
May 11, 2017
Kaiser Aluminum Corp. officials say the company has started spending more aggressively on the $150 million investment the company has committed to at its Trentwood plant in Spokane Valley. Kaiser announced near the end of 2015 it would be investing the m
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—Kevin Blocker

Deer Park's loyal Knights

Family business anchors new industrial park
April 27, 2017
The Deer Park business community has high financial hopes for its new business park and industrial center, which now has as its first tenants, two subsidiaries of the 49-year-old Knight Construction & Supply Inc. Knight EZ Dock Inc. and Knight Wall Syste
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—LeAnn Bjerken

Wemco stays on uptick in new digs on the West Plains

Equipment maker plans to expand design services
April 27, 2017
LeAnn Bjerken
It's been two years since Wemco Co., an Airway Heights-based light-industrial equipment manufacturer, expanded into a new production facility, and according to one company official, it's not yet done growing. Matt Turner, Wemco's executive vice pr
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—Mike McLean

Sales swell for StanCraft Boats

North Idaho manufacturer looks to expand its new facilities in Hayden
April 27, 2017
Mike McLean
Barely a year after settling into its Hayden headquarters and production facility, Stan-Craft Boat Co., the North Idaho-based maker of hand-built wooden boats, has launched plans to expand its operations there this summer, says StanCraft president and co-
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—Kevin Blocker

Action Fasteners reports rising revenue trend

Distributor expects sales to rise 15 percent this year
April 13, 2017
Tim Jackson started Action Fasteners & Supply Inc., of Spokane, in 1994 out of his garage with two sheets of plywood and four sawhorses. Today, the wholesale fastener distribution company at 3335 E. Trent operates in 10,000 square feet of space and is a
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—Treva Lind

Ohmygaia LLC: A natural solution to sweat

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March 30, 2017
Treva Lind
It's good to press hard in a race running toward the finish line, but one Coeur d'Alene woman wanted to get to that point with a little less perspiration. A runner of marathons, Wendy Harris heard the same complaint from other female distance runners
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—Kevin Blocker

Startup SafeGuard Equipment energizes investors

Electrocution-alert maker to debut device this year
February 16, 2017
Three recent University of Idaho graduates, each hailing from families of electrical workers, have generated substantial attention from Spokane-area startup investors as a company they've founded, SafeGuard Equipment Inc., develops a wristband that woul
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-Kevin Blocker

Garco Building Systems to keep some staff in Spokane

NCI hasn't decided what it will do with plant facility
December 15, 2016
Despite the recent layoff of 112 manufacturing workers and the shuttering of manufacturing operations at Garco Building Systems' Airway Heights facility, the company says it will retain nearly 50 workers here in information technology, sales, and procur
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Able Label grows under former Red Lion executive

Expanded facility helps meet increase in orders
December 1, 2016
Mike McLean
Art Coffey, former CEO of Red Lion Hotels Corp. and now president of Able Label, says the Spokane label-manufacturing company has seen consistent strong growth since he and his wife, Kaleen, bought it and moved it to larger quarters. The company is locat
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