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A Letter from the Chair and a look ahead at IAMC events in 2026.

Every year about this time, while the inbox floods with holiday greetings and most of those around us begin to frolic, our team is focused on completing production of this issue right around the winter solstice. Which makes sense: The shortest day of the year serves as an annual reminder that we’re running out of time.

Tribute to a Friend

A letter from the Chair, and National Manufacturing Day is celebrated.

In October I attended the final convening of the ECMC Foundation CTE Leadership Collaborative in Austin, Texas. The funding is sunsetting for this family of six fellowship programs focused on furthering career and technical education.

A letter from the Chair, IAMC International Forum takeaways, new staff members and IAMC’s new social media spotlight — “I am IAMC.”

Sometimes an event in the relentless flood of news uncorks a torrent of memories. That was the case in August when I heard International Paper was shutting down its containerboard and packaging plants in Savannah and its timber and lumber operation in nearby Riceboro, Georgia, eliminating around 1,100 jobs. A nearby pulp mill in Port Wentworth is not closing, but has been sold.

A letter from the Chair, IAMC International Forum takeaways, new staff members and IAMC’s new social media spotlight — “I am IAMC.”

The Site Selection team pays a lot of attention to all the data and analysis out there in order to direct your attention to the data, analysis and storytelling in here.

A Letter from the Chair; award winners; a Q&A with AI expert Zack Kass.

Exactly 10 years ago, on May 14, 2015, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor of Michigan announced that a new, publicly owned bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, funded completely by Canada, would be named the Gordie Howe International Bridge after the Canadian hockey legend who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cup victories.

A letter from the Chair and an interview with water expert James Eklund.

If you build it … chances are you’ll expand it later.

A Letter from the Chair; the return of the member profile; and snapshots of FDI involving IAMC member organizations.

Years ago, I was invited to a major Canadian city to present our competitiveness award for province-level success.

A Letter from the Chair; the return of the member profile; and snapshots of FDI involving IAMC member organizations.

In 1983 when our founder Mac Conway launched SiteNet, he had already helmed the magazine and Conway Data for 29 years and published tens of thousands of pages of reports and directories. I can see them on our office shelves, bound in books. I was 19 years old then, a sophomore in college and bound […]

Holistic View Draws from Different Perspectives

MEMORIALS TO TOMORROW

Sustainability Includes Sustaining an Organization

Editor's View: MEMORIALS TO TOMORROW

Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]

To believe things are going to work out, or not to believe. That is the question. You’ll have to forgive this former poetry and theater major. Writing this on Shakespeare’s 460th birthday, I can’t help but ask, “Is it indeed nobler ‘to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against […]

IAMC members are preparing to gather in April for our next Forum in Greenville, South Carolina.