Industrial sector in spotlight: What Tesla, Samsung, other big projects mean for Austin-area manufacturing

Ed Latson believes the industrial sector of the Central Texas economy is getting a long-overdue moment in the spotlight.

“The industrial sector finally has people’s attention,” said the CEO of the Austin Regional Manufacturers Association. “We’ve always been really strong in developing advanced hardware. We have a great electronics sector here. But most people didn’t really have that awareness. We saw ourselves as a tech town, but people thought of tech as Google and Facebook and Indeed, they didn’t think about it as Samsung and NXP and Applied Materials. But those are […]

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