Montana Mnufacturing Center Spring 2007 Newsletter

Encouraging signs about global market
expansion as a real growth opportunity here in Montana are in the news. Manufacturing has flipped the historic Montana trend of exporting more agricultural
commodities (60%) than value-added goods (40%). The blend is now 40:60. With 96 percent of the world’s consumers living outside the U.S., we need to keep this trend growing
since value-added products
return more dollars to the state.

Full Newsletter:
http://www.mtmanufacturingcenter.com/PDFs/spring07.pdf