Shasta EDC Blog

Perhaps you’ve seen people appearing to fly across lakes, rivers, or ocean waters and even pulled over your car to see what they were doing. They could very well be having the time of their lives riding a SkySki made right here in Shasta County! Laird Hamilton, one of the world’s best surfers, is very familiar with SkySki as they make parts for him.   READ MORE...

Turning passion into profit. John Yates, co-founder of Yates Gear, will be the first to tell you it was all about creating the equipment he and his climbing buddies needed because it simply didn’t exist in the late 70’s. It’s an interesting career switch he made from getting a degree in “range management” at Humboldt State to then manufacturing and selling climbing and technical rescue equipment worldwide as a career.  READ MORE...

Rutaesomn | Linnet BioPharmaceuticals is a Redding, CA based start-up company launched four months ago. If you were at the Shasta EDC Game Changer Luncheon, you will have seen them. Their product is a sleep aid which speeds up the body’s natural process of eliminating caffeine.  READ MORE...

Innespace Productions, the parent company of Seabreacher, this week’s Shasta County manufacturing-company-in-the-spotlight, makes a show stopper personalized watercraft whose purchasing audience includes worldwide VIP’s and corporations.  READ MORE...

Sof-TEK Integrators, Inc. was launched in Redding, CA in 2000 out of the owners’ (self-described as “deep propeller heads”) desire to maintain control over the magic that too often walks out the door when the business deal gets done. For obvious reasons, that didn’t sit well with them. There had to be a better way.  READ MORE...

Recently I attended an International Asset Management Council (IAMC) conference in Austin, Texas. One interesting discussion was a presentation on ‘in-shoring’, the name given to jobs returning to the States from overseas. In the first blog I shared some comments regarding International manufacturing trends.  READ MORE...

Recently, I attended an International Asset Management Council (IAMC) conference in Austin Texas. One interesting discussion was a presentation on ‘in-shoring’, the name given to jobs returning to the States from overseas. In this blog I will share some comments regarding International manufacturing trends.  READ MORE...

Increasing opportunities, stimulating the economy through business growth, and job creation is always an Economic Developers goal.  For any economy manufacturing offers all three of these goals and delivers.  In this article below "Why Manufacturing is Critical to the Economy", pinpoints why manufacturing makes such a big impact on a community.  The second portion of this article takes a look at strategies to strengthen American manufacturing.  What are your thoughts on Manufacturing as a stimulator for Shasta County's economy?    READ MORE...

America Revealed, a series playing on PBS has an episode "Made in America" that I found very encouraging for manufacturing and hit home on the importance of innovation to the US economy. American manufacturing is still #1. It accounts for 12% of the US economy, employs about 11 million people and spurs a lot of spin off jobs that are important to the economy. Our factories don’t look like they used to - they require fewer people and make different products, but we manufacture more now than in any time in our history. Some of our most traditional industries are riding a remarkable wave of innovation and new ones are spring up all the time. WATCH  READ MORE...