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Alabama has a long and rich history of support
for and benefit from manufacturing. Whether it is steel from
Birmingham, textiles from Valley, chemicals from Decatur, paper
products from Courtland, or shipbuilding from Mobile, Alabama,
manufacturers have always found a way to make the right combination
of people, materials, and natural resources to raise the quality
of life for all its citizens.
Members of Manufacture Alabama are utilizing the
state’s
natural resources, combining them with the talents of our employees
to produce products which enhance the quality of all our lives.
Almost everything, either grown, eaten, driven, washed with, lived
in, worn or written on in Alabama is touched in some way by manufacturers.
Products that we use everyday such as the cars we drive, the medicines
we take, the clean water we drink, and the clothes we wear are
produced from, or the with help of, products from Alabama manufacturing
plants.
Alabama manufacturers have a significant economic impact on the
lives and residents of this state. Here are some of the facts:
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- Alabama is home to more than 5,200
manufacturing, assembly and processing establishments which
employ more than 312,000 people and export $8.3 billion in
products and services-Alabama
Development Office
- Alabama companies have expanded within
the past decade with an average of $2 billion
annually in capital investment- Alabama Development
Office
- Alabama is home to more than 200 foreign-based manufacturers
from 27 countries representing $16.8 billion in capitol
investment-Alabama Development Office
- Alabama’s top export products
include: transportation equipment, industrial machinery
(including computers), organic chemicals, medical or surgical
instruments, and mineral fuel- Alabama Development Office
- Manufacturing’s contribution to Alabama’s
economy: $27 billion –National Association
of Manufacturers
- Manufacturing as a percent of Alabama’s
Gross State Product: 19%- Alabama Development Office
- Manufactured Goods Exported: $10.8 billion- Alabama
Development Office
- Number of countries to which Alabama exports: 181-Alabama
Development Office
- Number of Alabama exporters: 3,035-Alabama Development
Office
- Percentage of Alabama exporters that are small or medium-sized
firms: 78%
- Number of manufacturing jobs related to Manufactured
Goods Exported: 200,000- Alabama Development Office
- Proportion of manufacturing jobs related to Manufactured
Goods Exported (2002): one in every six- United States
Census Bureau
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