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American Military News
10-05-2025
- Business
- American Military News
‘Made in USA' gives edge to Denver manufacturer, but doesn't spare it effects of tariffs
Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. is one of the prime reasons behind the Trump administration's tariffs, but Hercules Industries is ahead of the game. The Denver company's heating, ventilation and air conditioning products have been made in America since its start in 1962. Roughly 95% of the steel Hercules uses is made in America. And as other countries and companies deal with 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Hercules Industries is reaping the benefits of long-term relationships with domestic suppliers. The tariffs are causing many of the country's smaller manufacturers to worry about the short-term implications of the trade war. So much so that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked the administration for an exemption for small businesses that import goods. Patrick Newland, whose grandfather, William Newland, started Hercules Industries, said having mostly domestic suppliers gives the company a bit of advantage in the face of tariffs. But it doesn't make the company immune to trade-war fallout. Colorado economists question the goals, approach of U.S. tariffs 'Since the tariffs, we have seen a slow increase in prices. We have seen domestic mills raise their prices every month,' said Newland, the vice president of business development. While the company is paying more for its steel, most of which is shipped from the South, it is holding off on raising customers' prices. Newland hopes that will help Hercules pick up more business. 'We're getting more leads because of the tariff increases and uncertainty,' said Nicole Thompson, marketing director, during a tour of the commercial production area. As costs rise for other countries, 'people are looking to source materials domestically,' Thompson said. Don Modesitt, the product manager for Hercules Industries, said the company can look out for its customers thanks to a strong inventory and long-term contracts with steel mills that allows it to plan ahead. 'As an American company that promotes American manufacturing and purchases American products as much as we can, Hercules does everything we can to be proactive, to keep prices as low as we can for our customers and to price them as fairly as we can,' Modesitt said. 'We realize it's not just our pain, it's also our downstream customers' pain,' added Modesitt, who's been in the metals industry since 1975. The impacts on those 'downstream' users of steel products will be substantial, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said. For every worker in steel production, the chamber said in a blog, there are about 80 Americans working for manufacturers that use steel. 'Ultimately, these tariffs will lead to higher costs for American businesses and consumers and fewer exports for American companies,' the chamber said. President Donald Trump has said Americans might feel pain from higher tariffs, but has urged people to 'hang tough' for the jobs and business growth he predicts will follow. Modesitt also believes the tariffs will ultimately benefit steel manufacturing and other U.S. industries, but 'not without short-term pain.' He sees the steel and aluminum tariffs as a way to counter China's practice of subsidizing production, allowing Chinese companies to sell at lower prices and undercut other countries. 'If tariffs start to equalize the way in which we work with the global economies, then down the road we will definitely be stronger than we are now,' Modesitt said. 'We will definitely have more American manufacturing here.' Keith Maskus, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Colorado-Boulder, doesn't expect the tariffs to generate many jobs or boost manufacturing much. Steel and aluminum tariffs were imposed during the first Trump administration in 2017 and 2018. 'It's estimated that they probably generated an additional 1,200 to 1,500 jobs in those sectors,' said Maskus, who was chief economist at the U.S. State Department in the Obama administration. But domestic steel companies raised their prices, which increased costs for other industries using steel and aluminum and resulted in the loss of 4,500 to 5,000 jobs, Maskus said. 'The tradeoff is a bad one.' 'We're here to stay' Whatever turmoil tariffs cause in the short or long term, Hercules Industries is making commitments to being around for the long haul. The company recently held a grand opening for a new 100,175-square-foot plant to house its commercial manufacturing of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC products, for hotels, recreation centers, hospitals and other buildings. The new commercial building allowed the company to expand its processing operations in another building down the block in northeast Denver. 'When you look at a new building like this, and the investment that we put into it, it obviously says a huge amount about our confidence in the future … we're here to stay and this is a huge investment in what we see in the future in Colorado,' Andy Newland, Hercules Industries president, said in a statement. Hercules has factories and centers in six Western states: Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The company has about 280 employees in Colorado and a total of 685. In 2019, what was a family-owned business became an employee-owned business. The three Newland brothers who took charge of the company from their father and uncles created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. John Newland is the district manager in the company's northern region. In the commercial fabrication building, Hercules employees take the sheets of various types of steel and fashion them into ducts, pipes, 'elbow' fixtures that fit into corners of buildings and other parts. The largest pipe is 82 inches in diameter. A big laser machine that's programmed by people in another part of the building is used to cut various shapes. 'We like to say, 'Draw it. We'll make it,' ' said Aga Waronska, the commercial branch manager. 'We can cut big and thick and we can also cut very small.' To make her point, Waronska pulled out of a drawer two steel bicycles so tiny that it was hard at first to tell what they were. Down the street, Mike DeRammelaere, the manager at the processing center, walked past big loops of steel that arrive via rail that leads right up to the building. One wrapped coil weighs 40,000 pounds. Depending on the steel's thickness, a loop can stretch up to tens of thousands of feet, Modesitt said. The coils are fed into machines that flatten and cut the steel into sheets, which are taken to the commercial division for fabrication. Other steel is slit into various sizes and shipped to another facility in Denver to make products geared toward the residential market. Hercules also sells smaller coils to other companies that make products but don't have the kind of machinery needed to handle larger sheets of metal. DeRammelaere, who's been with Hercules for 17 years, said the company averages four deliveries a week from the steel mills. 'We're able to process two full rail cars a day, which is about 400,000 pounds of material,' he said. Steel prices have leveled off, DeRammelaere said. 'Stainless steel and aluminum really shot up during the onset of tariffs.' But aluminum has become increasingly difficult to procure within the U.S., DeRammelaere said. 'A lot of U.S. companies shut down smelters 20 to 30 years ago. The majority of it comes out of Canada.' Hercules Industries anticipates a busy two years ahead. The company projects 15% increases in steel used each of the next two years. ___ © 2025 MediaNews Group, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Miami Herald
08-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
‘Made in USA' gives edge to Denver manufacturer, but doesn't spare it effects of tariffs
Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. is one of the prime reasons behind the Trump administration's tariffs, but Hercules Industries is ahead of the game. The Denver company's heating, ventilation and air conditioning products have been made in America since its start in 1962. Roughly 95% of the steel Hercules uses is made in America. And as other countries and companies deal with 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Hercules Industries is reaping the benefits of long-term relationships with domestic suppliers. The tariffs are causing many of the country's smaller manufacturers to worry about the short-term implications of the trade war. So much so that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked the administration for an exemption for small businesses that import goods. Patrick Newland, whose grandfather, William Newland, started Hercules Industries, said having mostly domestic suppliers gives the company a bit of advantage in the face of tariffs. But it doesn't make the company immune to trade-war fallout. Colorado economists question the goals, approach of U.S. tariffs "Since the tariffs, we have seen a slow increase in prices. We have seen domestic mills raise their prices every month," said Newland, the vice president of business development. While the company is paying more for its steel, most of which is shipped from the South, it is holding off on raising customers' prices. Newland hopes that will help Hercules pick up more business. "We're getting more leads because of the tariff increases and uncertainty," said Nicole Thompson, marketing director, during a tour of the commercial production area. As costs rise for other countries, "people are looking to source materials domestically," Thompson said. Don Modesitt, the product manager for Hercules Industries, said the company can look out for its customers thanks to a strong inventory and long-term contracts with steel mills that allows it to plan ahead. "As an American company that promotes American manufacturing and purchases American products as much as we can, Hercules does everything we can to be proactive, to keep prices as low as we can for our customers and to price them as fairly as we can," Modesitt said. "We realize it's not just our pain, it's also our downstream customers' pain," added Modesitt, who's been in the metals industry since 1975. The impacts on those "downstream" users of steel products will be substantial, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said. For every worker in steel production, the chamber said in a blog, there are about 80 Americans working for manufacturers that use steel. "Ultimately, these tariffs will lead to higher costs for American businesses and consumers and fewer exports for American companies," the chamber said. President Donald Trump has said Americans might feel pain from higher tariffs, but has urged people to "hang tough" for the jobs and business growth he predicts will follow. Modesitt also believes the tariffs will ultimately benefit steel manufacturing and other U.S. industries, but "not without short-term pain." He sees the steel and aluminum tariffs as a way to counter China's practice of subsidizing production, allowing Chinese companies to sell at lower prices and undercut other countries. "If tariffs start to equalize the way in which we work with the global economies, then down the road we will definitely be stronger than we are now," Modesitt said. "We will definitely have more American manufacturing here." Keith Maskus, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Colorado-Boulder, doesn't expect the tariffs to generate many jobs or boost manufacturing much. Steel and aluminum tariffs were imposed during the first Trump administration in 2017 and 2018. "It's estimated that they probably generated an additional 1,200 to 1,500 jobs in those sectors," said Maskus, who was chief economist at the U.S. State Department in the Obama administration. But domestic steel companies raised their prices, which increased costs for other industries using steel and aluminum and resulted in the loss of 4,500 to 5,000 jobs, Maskus said. "The tradeoff is a bad one." 'We're here to stay' Whatever turmoil tariffs cause in the short or long term, Hercules Industries is making commitments to being around for the long haul. The company recently held a grand opening for a new 100,175-square-foot plant to house its commercial manufacturing of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC products, for hotels, recreation centers, hospitals and other buildings. The new commercial building allowed the company to expand its processing operations in another building down the block in northeast Denver. "When you look at a new building like this, and the investment that we put into it, it obviously says a huge amount about our confidence in the future … we're here to stay and this is a huge investment in what we see in the future in Colorado," Andy Newland, Hercules Industries president, said in a statement. Hercules has factories and centers in six Western states: Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The company has about 280 employees in Colorado and a total of 685. In 2019, what was a family-owned business became an employee-owned business. The three Newland brothers who took charge of the company from their father and uncles created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. John Newland is the district manager in the company's northern region. In the commercial fabrication building, Hercules employees take the sheets of various types of steel and fashion them into ducts, pipes, "elbow" fixtures that fit into corners of buildings and other parts. The largest pipe is 82 inches in diameter. A big laser machine that's programmed by people in another part of the building is used to cut various shapes. "We like to say, 'Draw it. We'll make it,' " said Aga Waronska, the commercial branch manager. "We can cut big and thick and we can also cut very small." To make her point, Waronska pulled out of a drawer two steel bicycles so tiny that it was hard at first to tell what they were. Down the street, Mike DeRammelaere, the manager at the processing center, walked past big loops of steel that arrive via rail that leads right up to the building. One wrapped coil weighs 40,000 pounds. Depending on the steel's thickness, a loop can stretch up to tens of thousands of feet, Modesitt said. The coils are fed into machines that flatten and cut the steel into sheets, which are taken to the commercial division for fabrication. Other steel is slit into various sizes and shipped to another facility in Denver to make products geared toward the residential market. Hercules also sells smaller coils to other companies that make products but don't have the kind of machinery needed to handle larger sheets of metal. DeRammelaere, who's been with Hercules for 17 years, said the company averages four deliveries a week from the steel mills. "We're able to process two full rail cars a day, which is about 400,000 pounds of material," he said. Steel prices have leveled off, DeRammelaere said. "Stainless steel and aluminum really shot up during the onset of tariffs." But aluminum has become increasingly difficult to procure within the U.S., DeRammelaere said. "A lot of U.S. companies shut down smelters 20 to 30 years ago. The majority of it comes out of Canada." Hercules Industries anticipates a busy two years ahead. The company projects 15% increases in steel used each of the next two years. 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Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Area counties team up for specialized foster program
Apr. 21—LIMA — Child welfare agencies from Allen, Auglaize and Hardin counties are launching a multi-agency, tri-county Treatment Foster Care program. Allen County Children Services Executive Director Sarah Newland spoke at the Lima Rotary Club on Monday, explaining what the program means and what the public can expect moving forward. The program will create specialized, highly trained foster homes to treat children with behavioral and mental health needs in the homes to produce better outcomes for the children while keeping them in their communities. In the past, children from Allen County have been placed outside of the county to meet their needs. "With the rising number of kids that have special needs, higher needs and a decline in placement statewide, we are trying to find options for our youth that can meet their needs locally," Newland said. "We want kids back in our community." Allen County Children Services took in 762 reports in 2024, 72 percent of which were due to neglect or physical abuse. It also handled cases involving 414 positive drug screens. Children in group homes from Allen County are as far away as Cincinnati, Dayton and the northeastern part of the state. "It's not the best for kids," Newland said. "(We want to be able to) keep them in the school district, be around their family, so, that is our goal." The plan to develop Treatment Foster Care is moving forward, including recruiting and supporting treatment foster homes willing to take on eligible children for the program with individual support, training, on-call 24/7 caseworker support and counseling for crisis response, according to information from Children Services. Anyone interested in fostering can call the Allen County Children Services at 419-227-8590. "We are always looking for foster care placements," Newland said. Allen County Children Services is located at 123 W. Spring St., Lima. Reach Cade Higgins at 567-242-0351 Featured Local Savings
The Guardian
24-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Is the Grand National losing its spirit as big-name stables dominate field?
There is still more than enough time for a slice of bad luck to rule out a runner or two, but for practical purposes, the probable field for the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week was largely confirmed at last week's forfeit stage. It was not long before the complaints began to arrive – from some British trainers, at least. Kim Bailey and Dr Richard Newland, both past winners of the world's most famous steeplechase, voiced concerns that the race is now dominated by the biggest stables in Ireland, and two trainers – Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott – in particular. Sara Bradstock, meanwhile, expressed frustration that Mr Vango, the star of her small stable near Wantage, is unlikely to make the cut despite having plenty of form – and a handicap mark – that would make him a very live contender. Their comments echo widely shared concerns among many jump-racing fans that the Grand National is either turning into, or has already become, 'just another race like all the others', with the essential qualities that made it unique stripped away in the name of progress. The fences are easier, the distance has been (slightly) reduced, and last year's race was the first to be run with a maximum field of 34, making it ever more difficult for a smaller yards and owners to get a piece of the action with an honest, homespun staying chaser near the bottom of the weights. The essential complaint is that while the Grand National we all grew up with is still there in body – Becher's, the Chair, the spruce-topped fences – it is no longer there in spirit. By several measures, the critics have a point. Seven of the 32 starters in last year's National were trained in British yards and six of the first seven past the post were saddled by Mullins, Elliott or Henry de Bromhead. In terms of the increasing dominance of Irish-trained runners, though, the National is simply reflecting the overall state of play in jumps racing as a whole. Ireland had 20 of the 28 winners at Cheltenham this month, when Mullins's 10 winners included a 100-1 shot in the Triumph Hurdle, one of a remarkable 11 runners from the yard in the 17-strong field. Newland and Bradstock have expressed support for a three- or four-horse limit on the number of runners a trainer can saddle in the National (Newland went even further last year and seemed to suggest a blanket ban on Irish-trained runners in Britain or, failing that, a limit of one-per-stable in major races). 'Why can't they put a limit in place?,' Newland said in the Racing Post last week. 'There are three or four really big players and it's killing our sport. Spreading those horses around more yards benefits so many more and makes the sport healthier.' A limit on the number of runners representing a particular owner or trainer is penalising success, which would be a very odd way for any competitive sport to go about its business. It would also effectively mean telling the sport's biggest owners how and where to spend their money, which is hardly going to incentivise them to keep playing what will always be a numbers game. Mullins's 11 contenders in the Triumph were running for eight different owners. It is also fair to ask whether the situation is as desperate as some like to claim. Eighteen of the 34 runners currently guaranteed a run in this year's race are trained in Britain, including the second-favourite, Iroko, from Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero's (relatively) small stable in Cheshire. Another British trainer with a guaranteed run is the Newmarket-based Michael Keady, who bought Horantzau D'Airy for £52,250 in an online auction, and has yet to saddle a winner over jumps. The favourite is Intense Raffles, one of about 20 horses at Tom Gibney's yard in County Meath. Gibney is, in other words, a classic example of a small trainer tilting at the biggest prize in jumping, in the manner of so many others down the years. He just happens to be based in Ireland, not Britain. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion It is also just less than two years since Corach Rambler, whose owners included a student who bought a share in Lucinda Russell's chaser to give him something to look forward to during lockdown, landed the spoils at Aintree. The Grand National can still produce heart-warming stories while in terms of its overall competitiveness it is arguably stronger than ever. Behind Intense Raffles, at 7-1, there are 13 horses 33-1 or shorter, every one of which has at least one run to their name that gives them a chance. The changes to the Grand National over the past 10 years in particular were made for a reason. The British Horseracing Authority and Aintree concluded that a situation in which the most-watched race of the year, by far, also carried measurably higher risks for horses and riders was not sustainable for either the National itself or the sport as a whole. While it is undoubtedly a pity that Mr Vango is unlikely to squeeze into the field at Aintree next month, he is good enough and young enough to be a serious contender in 2026 . His probable absence this time around is no cause for a rethink about the race or its conditions.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Rep. Davids and Kansas Farm Bureau discuss Trump tariffs
MERRIAM, Kan. — Ahead of President Donald Trump's address Tuesday night, Kansas' 3rd District Congresswoman, Democrat Sharice Davids, hosted a call Tuesday morning. A guest of hers, included someone who works closely with Kansas farmers. This comes as Trumps administration is proceeding with tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, a move he says is to combat 'US national security threats.' . 'I have concerns right now. President Trump's trade policies certainly have the potential to impact and hurt Kansas,' Rep. Sharice Davids said Tuesday. 'Too many people have already seen the consequences of trade instability before.' Target CEO says Trump's tariffs will likely raise prices on items within 'days' Davids said there is potential for this to be a 'reckless approach.' She hopes to hear from Trump on a number of issues, including urgency of the Farm Bill. Davids also says to keep the economy strong, there will need to be trade policies that are going to open doors for farmers. 'We are looking at a situation where Kansas farmers are at risk of facing higher costs,' she shared, adding its not just the agriculture industry that will feel it. 'There's a potential that every Kansan will feel this with rising prices on things like gas, and groceries, vehicles costing thousands more a year.' 'The initial effect could be higher prices from inputs like from Canada on our fertilizer, or from any country, as far as that's concerned,' Newland said. 'But right now, the tariffs, as far as Canada, Mexico, and China are concerned, we are still in the process of marketing more grain.' Joe Newland, the president of the Kansas Farm Bureau, was on Tuesday's call. Newland said trade is vital for Kansas agriculture, adding that he believes there will be impacts caused by tariffs. See the latest headlines in Kansas City and across Kansas, Missouri 'They (these tariffs) will probably hurt us in the short term, but in the long term, we want to make sure we can keep everything strong,' Newland shared. The , a non-partisan research organization, says tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could cost the average US household over $1,200 a year. The President's Joint Address will take place Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. central time. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
