Manufacturing

Crane repair company expands
Tri-City footprint
A 51-year-old crane repair company recently opened its second location in the Tri-Cities. WHECO Corp. started out as a parts...

Tri-City manufacturing sector has a distinct flavor
Manufacturing in the two counties didn’t shine during the pandemic. According to recent work the Institute undertook for the Port...

Q&A with Lance Stephens
Lance Stephens Richland site manager VP North American fuel manufacturing Framatome Lance Stephens Number of employees you oversee: 550 Brief...

Area manufacturing jobs rebound but not to pre-pandemic levels
The state predicts the number of manufacturing jobs will drop in the next decade, yet industry groups intend to do...

Isoray raises $50M to expand Cesium-131 cancer treatments
Lori Woods Isoray Inc., the Richland company that makes radioactive seeds to treat prostate cancer, has...

Leggari Products builds DIY juggernaut fueled by the power of social media
Tim Krumland With up to 100 orders leaving their Big Pasco warehouse daily, record revenue last...

Pasco Machine prepares next-generation workforce for next 100 years
Jason Story, owner of Pasco Machine, stands underneath his machine shop’s current sign while holding a...

Manufacturing in the greater
Tri-Cities is solid but hardly diversified
Unique among nearly all Eastern Washington population centers, the greater Tri-City manufacturing sector doesn’t land in the top five sectors....