Report: Colorado’s manufacturing sector recovers job numbers lost during recession
Friday September 4, 2015
COLORADO -- Manufacturing employment in Colorado increased for a fifth straight year, according to the 2016 Colorado Manufacturers Directory, an industrial database and directory published by Evanston, Ill.-based Manufacturers' News Inc.
The state added 3,839 industrial jobs from June 2014 to June 2015, an increase of 1.8 percent, the report said.
The report said Colorado is now home to 6,228 manufacturers employing 213,863 workers. During the five-year period that began June 2010, the state gained 14,370 industrial jobs, recovering the nearly 11,000 jobs lost during the recession.
“Colorado’s industrial base has reinvented itself following the recession’s steep losses,” said Tom Dubin, Manufacturers' News president. “The state gets high marks for its focus on innovation, while its educated labor pool and abundant natural resources continue to draw investment in a variety of sectors.”
Job growth in the state was led by the food processing sector, which climbed by 4.3 percent during the year. Employment in the second-largest sector – industrial machinery – posted a 6.7 percent gain.
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