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PHIL featured in "Made in the Region" article in "Peoria Magazine"

3/3/2010 - We still make things in the U.S.? Why yes, yes we do. Despite an overall decline in domestic manufacturing over the last three decades, we haven’t lost everything to China. All kinds of products are still being made and manufactured here in the Peoria area.

When we consider local manufacturing, most of us tend to think of construction and earthmoving equipment, the agriculture and mining industries, and supplier parts for Caterpillar and John Deere. And certainly, that has been the backbone of the regional manufacturing sector for decades, and continues to be a critical component. But local manufacturing encompasses a much wider net than that. Here are 10 local firms making products—not always the typical ones you associate with manufacturing—right here in central Illinois...

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