It’s been a few years, but Douglas Johnson still bristles when he thinks of the day former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy got it so wrong.
Addressing a crowd of small manufacturers, Malloy proclaimed Connecticut doesn’t make widgets anymore.
Johnson, owner of Marion Manufacturing in Cheshire, looked around and saw lots of people like him all Connecticut widget makers.
Today, leadership has changed at the Capitol and Johnson is having quite a year as the de facto face of the state’s widget makers.
Westbrook-based The Lee Co. is one of many Connecticut businesses helping NASA reach its goal for future missions to the moon and beyond.
Lee has been supporting NASA and its subcontractors since the space race began in the 1950s.
Executive Vice President of Hydraulics Jeffrey Dickey said the company supplied parts that kept the oxygen supply of astronauts safe while they walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972.
“The current NASA work gives us a great sense of pride to be helping us get back to the moon with Artemis,” said Dickey.
An awards ceremony held at The Jackson Laboratory facility in Farmington on April 13 celebrated the induction of three iconic high-tech manufacturing companies from Connecticut into the American Manufacturing Hall of Fame (AMHoF).
Amid escalating U.S. tensions with China over Taiwan, two of the newest inductees for a Connecticut manufacturing hall of fame are seeing a direct impact the General Dynamics Electric Boat submarin.