1990 – The Growth Years

As the age of the internet dawned, UMA created a worldwide website to provide members with timely updates on critical legislative issues. Increasing diversity during this decade prompted the UMA Board of Directors to approve the “Guiding Principles for Supporting...

1980 – New Heights Along the Skylines

In the year of UMA’s Diamond Jubilee Anniversary, employment reached 93,300 men and women working in more than 1,600 plants. Manufacturing in Utah was once again expanding into an enviable industry. Approximately $250 million were being invested in manufacturing...

1970 – A New Commonwealth Economy

During the late 1970s, a new commonwealth economy emerged from the essentially colonial economy of the 1950s and 1960s as Utah entrepreneurs generated much of the state’s growth internally. By the late 1980s, Utah had developed a postindustrial and postcolonial...

1963 – The Space Age

By 1963, manufacturing employment had climbed to 54,700, as new companies were being formed in the state; new industry was coming to Utah, and older, established Utah firms were expanding and modernizing facilities. Fast forwarding to today, the manufacturers of the...

1956 – Manufacturing Boom

By 1956, manufacturing employment had grown to 35,300 Utahns in such industries as production, meat packing, canning, frozen foods, dairy products, milling, publishing, chemicals, paints, tools and more. Utah stepped into what could be called the “Sophisticated...