Molly Monson-StutesmanVice president of sales and marketingGoose Ridge Estate Vineyards and WineryNumber of employees you oversee: 300Tell us about Goose Ridge Estate Vineyards and GR Distillery:Goose Ridge Estate Vineyards and Winery is family owned and operated. As a fourth-generation agribusiness, our family started herding cattle and began sowing the land...

Manufacturing in the greater Tri-Cities certainly isn’t the largest sector. By recent (2018) average annual headcount, it ranks ninth, with about 8,200 workers.If you’re wondering, government – at all levels – is largest.Manufacturing also isn’t a greater provider of high wages in the local economy. In 2018, it paid an...

Rob MercerPresidentMercer Wine Estates / Mercer RanchesNumber of employees you oversee: 80How did you come to this kind of work? Family heritageWhy did your family settle here?Looked west for economic opportunity, originally raising sheep.How has your approach evolved?From the late 1800s to the late 1960s we raised sheep and then...

Regional manufacturing jobs to grow 1.84 percent this yearManufacturing jobs in Benton andFranklin counties are expected to grow at a faster rate than the state averageas food manufacturing rebounds in 2019. Locally, there are more than 8,100manufacturing jobs, which accounts for about 7 percent of total nonfarmemployment in 2018, according...

Plastic Injection Molding expansion allows for improved capacity, speedA north Richland company is poised forgrowth with the addition of a new 28,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in theback of its existing building that includes a 4,000-square-foot mezzanine.Plastic Injection Molding Inc.manufactures filter body parts for agricultural irrigation, special parts formedical diagnostic equipment, and...

Partnership to ensure continued nuclear explosion monitoringMedical isotopes are used daily around the world tovisualize and diagnose cancer, heart disease and other seriousailments. However, their production can emit gasses that, while posing nodanger to the public, have features that look similar to those produced by anuclear explosion.The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest...

Tri-Tech Skills Center officials hope a new program that includes drone-making will show students the sky’s the limit when it comes to job opportunities and careers in the unmanned flight and manufacturing industry.The new program launches this fall in a building recently constructed on the school’s Tri-Tech East campus in...

Jobs in manufacturing have slowed down progressively during the last year across Benton and Franklin counties. The region appears to finally be catching up with the state growth rate for manufacturing jobs, which has been minimal.The most recent figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics for April 2018 show...

Tri-Cities’ northern neighbor, Adams County, is moving forward with plans for infrastructure to support the growth of its food processing and distribution sectors, based on positive projections for the area’s potential as a low-cost hub for these industries.Results from two recent site selection studies conducted by The Boyd Company, a...

Jeanne Dillner, CEO of SIGN Fracture Care InternationalBrief background of business:SIGN Fracture Care International is a humanitarian organization based in Richland. Our mission is to give the injured poor in developing countries access to affordable orthopaedic surgery. We accomplish this by providing surgeons in these countries with orthopaedic education along...