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Manufacturing on a Roll
1,300-mile road trip celebrates Washington’ s manufacturing sector.
Jacqueline Allison
AWB’ s ninth-annual Manufacturing Week bus tour offered a peek inside shop floors across Washington, showcasing companies making everything from frozen vegetables and custom tents to carbon capture systems and explosively welded parts bound for Mars.
2025 Manufacturing Week Tour Stops
Emelie Crumbaker, owner of Misty Mountain Mfg., signs the Manufacturing Week bus outside her business in Seattle’ s Georgetown neighborhood.
AWB’ s ninth-annual Manufacturing Week bus tour rolled across Washington in October, highlighting manufacturers from Seattle to Spokane. The six-day, 1,300-mile journey offered a look inside 30 shop floors and training centers in this vital sector of Washington’ s economy.
From multi-generational businesses to startups, Washington is home to more than 7,600 manufacturing firms that employ 271,000 people.
Here’ s a look at stories from eight tour stops:
“ I really like to see the end product and that we actually made this.”
~ Emelie Crumbaker, owner of CEO of Misty Mountain Mfg, a custom cut-and-sew factory in Seattle
Access Laser CarbonQuest Dru Bru Eastern Washington University Eckstrom Industries Framatome Gig Harbor Boat Works Glassybaby High Energy Metals Largo Tents Misty Mountain Mfg. Northwest Steel Fab Olympic College Premier Manufacturing Rozema Boat Works Sierra Pacific Industries Pacific Seafoods Port Townsend Foundry Skone & Connors Produce( Basin Gold) Royal Family Farms TiLite / Permobil Tube Art Group Twin City Foods Sekisui Aerospace Sila Nanotechnologies Tidewater Barge Lines West Valley High School WIT Cellars fall 2025 45