Knoxville Here We Come

I'm proud to announce the addition of Brad Parish to the Southern Manufacturing Search team. Brad brings multiple years of recruiting experience in the engineering space and will cover the Knoxville, TN market as well as the surrounding region. Please stay tuned to http://www.southernmfgsearch.com/ and this blog for more information including job postings and other pertinent information.

July numbers are in.

While industrial production increased only 0.2% in July after having advanced 0.4% in June, manufacturing fared better gaining 0.4%. This figure was boosted by a rise of 3.6% in the production of motor vehicles and parts.

Excluding motor vehicles and parts, the index for manufacturing increased 0.2%.

In July, the capacity utilization rate for total industry edged up to 79.9%, a level 1.1 percentage points below its average for 1972-2007.

Source: IndustryWeek