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Manufacturing

It’s important for Alaska to develop value-added industries such as manufacturing. There are already several businesses producing unique materials and products throughout the state. This industry’s great growth potential allows Alaska Business many opportunities to explore new businesses, ideas, and developments. Some key items that are made in Alaska include construction materials for both residential and commercial properties, food for wholesale, and industrial textiles and materials.

Latest Manufacturing News

Building a Business with Recycled Plastic

Building a Business with Recycled Plastic

Alaska Plastic Recovery, the company behind Grizzly Wood, has made it through its first big year of work, traveling to and collecting more than 600,000 pounds of recycled plastic in eight Southcentral communities and turning it into formed-plastic lengths of recycled plastic lumber, or RPL, and bricks, useful for making signposts, decking, picnic tables, benches, and retaining walls.

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Sustainable Swag

Sustainable Swag

Just about any conference, convention, conclave, or convocation is littered with swag, but that doesn’t mean swag has to become litter. Attention to sustainability by event hosts and swag producers ensures that party favors won’t reflect poorly on the entities whose names are stamped on them.

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Spotlight Digital Profiles

Calista Corporation
The Contractors Plan
Provided by Fringe Benefit Group
Span Alaska Transportation
Personnel Plus
Avis Alaska
Lynden
Thomas Head & Greisen, PC
American Marketing Association Alaska Chapter
Doyon, Limited

Structured

People AK

Anchorage Economic Development Corporation

Oxford Assaying & Refining

Associated General Contractors of Alaska

JEFFCO Grounds Maintenance
SES Space & Defense

Crowley Fuels Alaska

TOTE Maritime Alaska
SeaTac Marine

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Alaska Business March 2024 cover
In This Issue
Wealth of the Arctic
March 2024
Point your compass north of the Arctic Circle to explore construction, industry support, resource development, and other opportunities available in the polar region. This issue also celebrates the Arctic Winter Games being hosted in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough this month, and it reveals how the 1964 Good Friday earthquake continues to reverberate, sixty years later.