In May, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of the Department of Homeland Security declared that it had selected a brace of finalists in the competition to design the Trump administration’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico. The announcement was the first sign that the project, a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s campaign for president last year, was gaining traction in the real world, with the qualifying companies slated to begin building prototype segments in a matter of a few weeks.
Fishing is ‘of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than it is relative to the rest of the UK’, according to The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ‘Scotland has just 8.4% of the UK population, but its ports land over 60% of the total catch in the UK.’
NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. – A local company is hoping to bring new jobs to the area by helping to build the controversial border wall along the border with Mexico.
Manufacturing Today
Profiles: Riverdale Mills
Riverdale Mills Corporation manufactures more than 3,500 configurations of welded wire mesh for the marine, aquaculture, security, and construction and farming industries.
Blackstone Valley Xpress
Riverdale Mills At Home In A World Of Wire
There may be few throwbacks left to the Blackstone Valley’s glory days as the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. But one of them—Riverdale Mills Corp. in Northbridge—is a 21st Century powerhouse.
By the time bidding closed Tuesday, there was no lack of companies competing to build the wall President Trump has proposed for the border between the U.S. and Mexico. In fact, by The Associated Press’ count, upwards of 200 organizations had expressed interest in designing and building it for Customs and Border Protection.
WBJournal.com
Riverdale Mills Seeks to Help Build Trump’s Border Fence
If President Donald Trump builds his proposed border wall, a Northbridge company wants to have a hand in it.
American Security Today
Riverdale Mills WireWall® Secures Borders & Embassies Worldwide
For over 30 years, Riverdale Mills Corporation has worked with security consultants and companies worldwide to ensure military bases, embassies, transit systems, airports and prisons are highly secure and well-protected.
Fishing News
Aquamesh®: The Galvanised After-Weld Difference
Riverdale Mills has always been an ardent supporter of the lobster industry, providing industry insight for research and development, and creating products to help ensure the sustainability of the industry and the financial wellbeing of the fishermen. Riverdale’s welded wire marine mesh products are designed to do the same.
Voice of America (VOA)
Small US Company Bucks a Trend, Adding Manufacturing Jobs
NORTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — A rising tide of automation, trade problems and lagging growth in productivity has slashed millions of jobs from the U.S. manufacturing sector. At the same time, a small factory in Northbridge, Massachusetts, has been hiring, expanding and exporting.