Strategic industries
The productive core: factories, energy, infrastructure.
Manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure are the productive core of the economy. We develop the factories, industrial systems, energy assets, and enabling infrastructure that rebuild capacity and the jobs that come with it.
By the numbers
A vast base — and a share still shrinking.
Manufacturing still employs millions of Americans, yet its share of the economy keeps sliding.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, retrieved via FRED (series VAPGDPMA).
Manufacturing’s 1979 employment peak — a level the sector has never returned to.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES
Manufacturing jobs added back since the sector’s 2010 employment trough.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES
U.S. share of global manufacturing output — second only to China.
World Bank / UN, 2023
The jobs picture
Headcount held; the trend flattened.
After rebuilding from the 2020 low, U.S. factory headcount has settled onto a plateau — steady even as the sector’s share of GDP keeps easing.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, retrieved via FRED (series MANEMP).
Common questions
A plant runs the day it can be powered.
Factories cannot run without power, water, and logistics, so energy assets and the infrastructure that supports industry are part of the same productive core, not a separate concern.
Factories and the industrial systems around them — production lines, shared facilities, and the supplier and workforce base that lets them operate at scale.
Both. Energy assets and the infrastructure that delivers power to industry are developed together, because a plant’s viability depends as much on reliable supply as on the generation itself.
Closely. The enabling infrastructure a factory needs — power, water, logistics — is often developed through the same corridor logic, so manufacturing and infrastructure work reinforce each other.
Manufacturers, energy and utility firms, site owners, states and regions, and sponsors — coordinated so that production, power, and the infrastructure between them advance in step.
Because a factory cannot start without it, and the wait is now measured in years rather than months. Site readiness, permitting, and workforce availability all matter, but on most projects the date a plant can run is the date it can be powered — which is why the connection is developed alongside the building, not after it.
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