Phil Castle, The Business Times Bruce Strong has enjoyed a front-row seat to the development and increasing use of three-dimensional printers — equipment he says has the potential to revolutionize the way products are manufactured. It’s no longer so much a question of where and how 3-D printing technology is used, Strong says. “Where isn’t […]
Job growth continues in the United States, but at a slowing pace. According to the latest Labor Department estimates, nonfarm payrolls increased 96,000 in August, less than what many economists had expected. Moreover, initial estimates for payroll gains the previous two months were revised downward. The national unemployment rate slipped two-tenths of a point to […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times: Eye-popping gains in the number and dollar volume of real estate sales in Mesa County make Annette Miller increasingly upbeat about prospects for the market. “It’s pushing this year up,” said Miller, senior vice president of Heritage Title Co. in Grand Junction and a long-time observer of the local real […]
An index tracking business conditions in Colorado has seesawed back up in part on improved hiring in the construction sector, regaining ground lost the previous month. The Business Conditions Index jumped 9.4 points in August to 59, more than erasing a nine-point decline in July. The index remains below the 61.4 posted in March, however. Ernie […]
Two Grand Junction companies continue to rank among the fastest-growing firms nationwide. JG Management Systems (JGMS) and Rocky Mountain Sanitation are included in the 2012 Inc. magazine listing of the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. JGMS ranks 4,162nd. Rocky Mountain Sanitation ranks 4,974th. Inc. magazine long has compiled a list of the […]