The advanced manufacturing and technology industry is transforming the way companies do business worldwide. With the use of these materials, manufacturers are able to create competitive and innovative products which can be marketed globally.
Salem plays a key role in this industry. Many companies continue to invest in this area due to the low real estate and development costs, reliable and affordable utilities, low cost/high quality labor, no sales tax, and no local business license fee.
Advanced manufacturing and technology jobs represent more than 13 percent of all private sector jobs in our region. There are more than 1 million workers within 45 miles of Salem, including 33,000 employed in the high tech industry. Salem is also located within an hour of 80,000 college students. Additionally, our high quality, abundant water, availability of shovel ready land (at the Mill Creek Corporate Center), and central location, make us a prime location for technology and advanced manufacturing.
“For 30 years we’ve drawn from the manufacturing talent in the Willamette Valley…30 companies and growing!”
—Russ Monk, Director of Operations, HIT
Local companies in these sectors include:
- Garmin AT
- Cabinet Door Service
- Rigado
- Performance Health Technology
- Open Dental Software
- West Salem Machinery
- Layton Manufacturing
- GK Machine
