By: I Make America TeamOctober 12, 2017
AEM member companies converged in the nation’s capital this week for the association’s first-ever I Make America fly-in. AEM board members and executives from 25 member companies joined AEM staff for a packed schedule, which featured roughly 100 meetings with members of Congress and their staff. The fly-in kicked off Monday afternoon with legislative briefings […]
By: I Make America TeamSeptember 7, 2017
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee got a first-hand look at Ag equipment and the issues that affect farm equipment manufacturers at Farm Progress Show 2017. Perdue joined Congressman Mike Conaway, the Ag committee chairman, and a delegation of additional members of Congress from that committee for […]
By: I Make America TeamSeptember 7, 2017
Senator Ron Wyden visited Blount International’s headquarters in Portland on Wednesday for the second I Make America event in Oregon this year. Wyden, who is the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee (which would be tasked with writing tax reform legislation), toured the company’s manufacturing facilities and spoke to more than 500 Blount employees. […]
By: I Make America TeamSeptember 7, 2017
The I Make America tour marched onward last week with a trio of visits to factories across the Midwest. Volvo CE hosted Sen. Bob Casey in its Shippensburg, Pennsylvania production facility, while Congressman Mike Gallagher visited MCL Industries, Inc. in Pulaski, Wisconsin, and Congressman Tim Walberg visited Paladin Attachments in Dexter, Michigan. Each company hosted […]
By: I Make America TeamAugust 7, 2017
As Congress prepares to take up an infrastructure bill, the top Democratic congressman on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee visited Johnson Crushers International (JCI) for a special I Make America event. Congressman Peter DeFazio, the ranking member of the House committee in charge of writing an infrastructure bill, visited the division of Astec Industries […]
By: I Make America TeamAugust 7, 2017
The I Make America tour stretched across the United States last week Friday, as Governor Mary Fallin and Congressman Steve Russell visited Terex Corporation’s factory in Oklahoma City. And to round out Friday’s doubleheader, Sen. Ron Johnson visited Kondex Corporation in Lomira, Wisconsin for a separate I Make America event there. Fallin and Russell joined […]
By: I Make America TeamJuly 16, 2017
AEM launched a major new advertising blitz as part of its I Make America campaign to raise the equipment manufacturing’s profile in the nation’s capital.
By: I Make America TeamJuly 16, 2017
Congressman Dave Loebsack joined Vermeer President and CEO Jason Andringa and other company leaders for a tour of the 1.4 million square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
By: I Make America TeamMay 4, 2017
Congressman Peter Roskam headlined the second I Make America event of 2017 on Monday, as the tour moved on to General Kinematics in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Rep. Roskam toured the 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and met with the 160 men and women that engineer and manufacture state-of-the-art vibratory and rotary equipment for the foundry, mining, bulk […]
By: I Make America TeamMay 4, 2017
AEM officially kicked off its I Make America 2017 Tour this week. This marks the sixth year that AEM travels around the country to visit with member companies and their employees, discuss issues that affect the industry and highlight how equipment manufacturers are essential to the continued growth of the U.S. economy. This year’s theme […]
By: I Make America TeamMay 4, 2017
The 2017 I Make America tour got underway at CLAAS of America last Thursday with a visit from first-term Congressman Don Bacon. To support this year’s tour and its theme (“Our Products, Our Jobs”), CLAAS hosted its congressman as part of the company’s continued leadership in the I Make America program. The company hung a special banner paying tribute to […]
