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What distracts our smartest people, adds no benefit to business and makes us less competitive?

Five years ago, two Marlin Steel employees stood three feet shorter than cartons holding our files to respond to government regulations. The

Bullish on USA manufacturing

Marlin Steel President Drew Greenblatt at RMI meeting Nice blog post this morning from the

Marlin's Drew Greenblatt speaking at Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland forum

To launch the 2013 "Breakfast Series" of the Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland, Drew Greenblatt,

Creating Wire Forms to Protect Military Surveillance Equipment

AAI Corp. needed specialized

Resistance Isn't Futile: 5 Tips on Resistance Welding

This Q&A on welding for material handling baskets was produced with help from a good friend of

Our Logo in Lego and Sheet Metal

We donated a sign for a good cause that we cut from sheet metal with our latest robot, the TruLaser 1030, made in Connecticut by Trumpf. We'll show you the sheet metal sign in a future blog post after it's displayed. It was not our typical job, but

Pulling back the curtain on Intellectual Property theft

Eric H. Holder Jr., the U.S. Attorney General, starkly divided American companies into two groups at a meeting yesterday to describe the President’s strategy to combat the theft of U.S. trade secrets through the Internet. “Those

5 steps to avoid bad hires: It's not just an art, it's science

From Drew Greenblatt’s latest column in Inc. magazine on how we bring more science to the art of landing good hires at Marlin Steel: