National Association of Manufacturers
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| Founded | 1895 |
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| Type | Advocacy |
| Focus | Manufacturing and Small Business Advocacy |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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Jay Timmons, President & CEO |
| Slogan | Leading Innovation, Creating Opportunity, Pursuing Progress |
| Website | nam.org |
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, with 10 additional offices across the country. It is the nation's largest manufacturing industrial trade association, representing 11,000 small and large manufacturing companies in every industrial sector and in all 50 states.
The NAM's policy issue work is focused in the areas of labor, employment, health care, energy, climate, corporate finance, tax, bilateral trade, multilateral trade, export controls, technology, regulatory and infrastructure policy. According to Bloomberg, Duke Energy did not renew its membership with the NAM partly because of differences over climate policy.
NAM recently partnered with the National Council of La Raza to support legalizing 11 million illegal immigrants and increasing annual immigration numbers "because it provides the skilled workers manufacturers need, and it is simply the right thing to do."
According to NAM, manufacturing employs nearly 12 million workers, contributes more than $1.6 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, is the largest driver of economic growth in the nation and accounts for the lion's share of private sector research and development.
NAM supported the EPS Service Parts Act of 2014 (H.R. 5057; 113th Congress), a bill that would exempt certain external power supplies from complying with standards set forth in a final rule published by the United States Department of Energy in February 2014. The United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce describes the bill as a bill that "provides regulatory relief by making a simple technical correction to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to exempt certain power supply (EPS) service and spare parts from federal efficiency standards."
The NAM's Board of Directors includes Chairman David Farr, CEO of Emerson Electric Company, President Jay Timmons, CEO of NAM; Executive Committee Member Mary Vermeer Andringa, President and CEO, Vermeer Corporation; and Chair of the Board Douglas Oberhelman, CEO, Caterpillar Inc., among others.
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