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After Active Duty, Veterans Find New Purpose in Refinery Work
What comes next for returning service members varies greatly. For McNeill and Harbin, both found rewarding work that instilled pride in them not too dissimilar from what they felt serving their country - in the fuel refining and petrochemical industries.
On National Manufacturing Day, Industry Job Growth Holds Strong
As American manufacturers champion their contributions to economic competitiveness and product innovation today, the industry has yet another reason to celebrate – U.S. manufacturing employment is still on the rise.
New Report Points to Fuel and Petrochemical Industries Stimulating Job Growth
The latest job numbers out today (Friday, September 7th) once again paint a rosy picture of the U.S. economy – 201,000 jobs were added in August, above expectations, and wages continued to increase.
A New Mission for Veterans: Finding A Fresh Sense of Purpose
After serving their country honorably, many members of the armed forces face a transition to civilian life that can often be exciting and confusing.
In Petrochemical Industry, A Second Wave Of Growth Brought By Shale
BAYTOWN, TEXAS – A decade ago, when Mike Zamora ran ExxonMobil’s Baytown petrochemical plant, his vision to expand the facility and boost its capacity was nothing but a pipe dream.
Why modernizing NAFTA could be a boon for the U.S. economy
Negotiations to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are a chance to boost the competitiveness of U.S. companies in Canada and Mexico and solidify the preeminent role U.S. refiners and petrochemicals producers play in enabling global transportation and manufacturing.
Hiring Our Veterans Is Good for Business
This Veterans Day, AFPM salutes all of the brave men and women that served our country in the military.
Good-Paying Jobs – Look No Further than the Refining and Petrochemical Industries
A central theme running through the “Better Deal” economic policy agenda that the Democratic Party rolled out this week is the importance of creating—and protecting—good-paying jobs – jobs that will help boost middle-class incomes and create new economic opportunities nationwide.