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Associated Press
29-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Driving Innovation and Connection: Covia's Impact at Recent Industry Events
Over the last several weeks, Covia has played an active role in several significant industry conferences and tradeshows. These events demonstrate Covia's dedication to our customers, communities, and other important partners. They also provide opportunities for our team members to learn from industry experts, share best practices, showcase our cutting-edge technologies, and develop valuable new skills. As you will see, Covia continues to be a key contributor to the industry's evolution, reinforcing our position as a leader. Essential Minerals Association 2025 Annual Conference Andy O'Brien, Senior Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety, and Mona Legin, Ergonomics Specialist, represented Covia as invited speakers at this year's annual Essential Minerals Association conference. They emphasized the company's commitment to improving the health and safety of miners in the industry. Andy discussed the implementation of DustShield technology, which is designed to prevent overexposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) during screen changes. He illustrated its potential for adoption throughout processing stages and its ability to significantly reduce RCS levels. Mona concentrated on Covia's adoption of Soter Analytics technology, illustrating how wearable sensors and video evaluations detect ergonomic hazards, promote safer practices, and diminish reportable injury incidents. Covia was pleased to participate in the conference and engage with industry experts, which helped enhance our insight into the essential minerals sector. Eastern Coatings Show 2025 This week, Covia participated in the Eastern Coatings Show, an event that brings together leaders in coatings innovation. Covia's Senior Technology Manager, Scott Van Remortel, presented his technical paper titled 'Surface Treated Nepheline Syenite for Enhanced Performance in Industrial Coatings.' Applications data showing improved performance of industrial maintenance floor and general industrial top coats with nepheline syenite fillers treated with silane coupling agents will be presented. This new technology for both solvent and waterborne floor coatings and solvent-borne top coats will provide the formulators with low silica formulations that deliver higher filler loading, gloss retention, water, chemical and corrosion resistance. We were pleased to be among a respected group of presenters demonstrating how advanced mineral technology improves performance, durability, and sustainability in industrial coatings. Project Control Summit 2025: Navigating the Future of Project Controls Covia's Project Management Department participated in the Project Controls Summit to expand our project managers' knowledge of project controls. The Summit is the largest global gathering of project controls professionals. The summit fosters an environment in which project controls professionals and practitioners can engage in educational sessions focused on key sub-disciplines, including earned value management, change management, cost estimating and scheduling, contracting, and technology and innovation. Covia's participation aimed to expand Project Managers' knowledge of the Project Controls discipline, equipping them with the tools necessary to execute capital projects at Covia with optimal performance. The team gained valuable insights and established connections within the project controls community. They are eager to apply these learnings to improve project execution at Covia. Visit for more information about how everything we do helps you do what you do. It has been an eventful year for Covia thus far, and we are not even halfway through. Earlier this year, Covia team members actively participated in various events, showcasing their expertise and giving presentations. Their involvement highlights the team's commitment and passion for the industry. Cority Connect Conference Michele Oxlade, Senior Environmental Specialist and WHC Coordinator, and Erica Mitts, Cority Administrator and Operations Administration, attended the Cority Connect Conference. The goal of this conference is to inspire and empower health and safety professionals to protect worker health and safety and drive meaningful changes. Our sales and technical teams have also participated in a variety of prominent trade shows, demonstrating our commitment to the industry and engaging with key customers and stakeholders. Notable events included the Golf Industry Show, the New Jersey Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA NJ), the New England Regional Turfgrass Conference, and the Canadian Golf Show. Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Covia
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nearly 4 million new manufacturing jobs are coming to America as boomers retire—but it's the one trade job Gen Z doesn't want
America's manufacturing industry is expected to add 3.8 million new jobs by 2033, but Gen Z won't be rushing to hand in their applications. The young workers are ditching corporate careers and turning to trade work like carpentry in their droves. However, they still aren't thrilled by the idea of working factory floors for rock-bottom salaries. President Trump's immigration policies won't help the problem. Gen Zers are steadily abandoning the college-to-corporate pipeline, opting for trade school and blue-collar jobs instead. They're suiting up as electricians, plumbers, and carpenters for six-figure salaries—but there's one thriving industry they're still turning their nose up at. Manufacturing is one of America's hottest growing professions, with 3.8 million new jobs expected to open up by 2033, according to research from Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute. Yet half of those roles are predicted to go unfilled. Just 14% of Gen Z say they'd consider industrial work as a career, according to a separate study from Soter Analytics. Gen Z's interest in degree-less manufacturing jobs should be obvious—after all, they're already ditching cushy air-conditioned offices for blue-collar horizons. But they're choosing to sit this one out. That's likely because a quarter of them believe the industry doesn't offer flexibility and isn't safe, as per Soter Analytics' study—two non-negotiables for Gen Z, who value hybrid work and being cared for on the job. The workforce's youngest generation is swapping 'office siren' attire for hard hats and neon vests. But they won't be rushing to fill open seats on factory floors. Enrollment in vocational-focused community colleges jumped 16% last year—reaching the highest level since the National Student Clearinghouse began tracking the data in 2018. There also was a 23% surge in Gen Z studying construction trade from 2022 to 2023, and a 7% hike of participation in HVAC and vehicle repair programs. Most Americans, 78%, have seen a rising interest in trade jobs from young adults. These blue-collar careers allow Gen Z to be their own boss, have more flexibility over their hours, and still rake in six-figure salaries. The work is in high demand, and doesn't require a costly college degree, sinking many young people into debt. But factory work faces some issues that are complete turn-offs to Gen Z. Indeed, Manufacturing was once advertised as a stable career—padded with a pension, the industry was rife with opportunities in America's industrialized society. But today, plumbing and even waitressing present better financial opportunities (and are more dynamic) than being a functioning cog in an assembly line. Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. pay an average of about $25 per hour, or about $51,890 per year—far below the average American salary of $66,600. One reason why wages in the sector have stagnated may be chalked up to corporate suppression of factory labor unions. Workers have far less bargaining power to barter for better salaries that once made the jobs so attractive. Gen Z also don't want to be sequestered to 'boring' factory floors, when they might find more intrigue bartending or unclogging drains for better wages. The U.S. is desperate for more assembly workers and machine operators, and Americans recognize the need, with 80% believing the country would be better off if more U.S. workers were funneled into manufacturing. But talk is cheap—and few are actually willing to do it themselves. The same CATO Institute poll found that only 25% of Americans think they'd be better off working in a factory. "You're up against these huge technological changes in addition to trade and in addition to the fact that people are getting more educated,' Kyle Handley, an economist at the University of California, San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy, told Business Insider. 'The country's growing richer, and there are these other jobs in the service sector, which people have gravitated toward.' The once-thriving industry is under the microscope now more than ever as President Trump's policies wreak havoc on the sector's labor supply. America's manufacturing industry has long relied on immigrant workers to take on the jobs that U.S.-born citizens don't want to do. Deloitte's research found that a decline in immigration in recent years has already strained the labor supply. Now, Trump's crackdown on immigration and deportation efforts could set back the sector even more. Now, the problem is reaching a boiling point as America's workforce saddles up for a big change: baby boomers exiting for retirement. This story was originally featured on
