Oregon Metals Initiative established to boost important state industry. (Industry News)

Modern Casting | November 1, 1990 | Copyright

A growing Oregon industry employs 40,000 workers at generally high-wage jobs, but most Oregonians cannot name it. it's the metals industry.

Although Oregon comprises the nation's premier railcar builder, the center for U.S. aluminum smelting, a foremost precision metalcasting company and hundreds of small metalworking firms, most Oregonians do not think of this industry as a major contributor to the state's economy..

However, the Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI), a new $4 million venture of the federal and state governments, research institutions and Oregon ...

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