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Over the years, she's talked with Kamau Bell, David Byrne, Kamala Harris, Tony Kushner, Armistead Maupin, Van Dyke Parks, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tommie Smith, among others.\r\n\r\nBefore all this, she hosted \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> for 7+ years, reporting on topics like \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/on-a-mission-to-reform-assisted-living\">assisted living facilities\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\">robot takeover\u003c/a> of Amazon, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/50822/in-search-of-the-chocolate-persimmon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chocolate persimmons\u003c/a>.\r\n\r\nAwards? Sure: Peabody, Edward R. Murrow, Regional Edward R. Murrow, RTNDA, Northern California RTNDA, SPJ Northern California Chapter, LA Press Club, Golden Mic. Prior to joining KQED, Rachael worked in Los Angeles at KPCC and Marketplace. She holds degrees in English and journalism from UC Berkeley (where she got her start in public radio on KALX-FM).\r\n\r\nOutside of the studio, you'll find Rachael hiking Bay Area trails and whipping up Instagram-ready meals in her kitchen.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/87bf8cb5874e045cdff430523a6d48b1?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"rachaelmyrow","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelmyrow/","sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"news","roles":["edit_others_posts","editor"]},{"site":"futureofyou","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"food","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"forum","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Rachael Myrow | KQED","description":"Senior Editor of KQED's Silicon Valley News Desk","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/87bf8cb5874e045cdff430523a6d48b1?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/87bf8cb5874e045cdff430523a6d48b1?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/rachael-myrow"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"news_11752344":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11752344","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11752344","score":null,"sort":[1559683029000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"white-houses-about-face-on-mexican-trade-a-gut-punch-to-u-s-businesses","title":"White House's About-Face on Mexican Trade a 'Gut Punch' to U.S. Businesses","publishDate":1559683029,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Companies with supply chains straddling the U.S. Southern border find themselves in the crosshairs of a new threat after President Trump pledged to raise tariffs on imports from Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, business leaders thought that trade disputes with Mexico and Canada were nearly resolved after the Trump administration sought congressional approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=“medium” align=”right” citation=\"Ann Wilson, Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association\"]'Manufacturers flourish in this country when they have certainty. Now we have a real question about whether that certainty even exists.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just did not see this coming,\" says Ann Wilson, senior vice president of government affairs for the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association. \"Manufacturers flourish in this country when they have certainty. Now we have a real question about whether that certainty even exists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson says her industry was relieved last month when the administration lifted tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. Now, it's all back in flux. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has pledged to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729564109/mexico-tariffs-likely-to-take-effect-next-week-trump-vows-in-london\">raise tariffs on all Mexican products\u003c/a> — starting at 5% next week and rising to 25% by October. Wilson says higher tariffs would increase supply costs and hurt car sales, a double whammy. Taken together, uncertainty over trade has been a drag on the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not clear what the latest tariff threats will mean for passage of the president's own trade proposal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump is using the threats to try to force Mexico to address illegal migration, but businesses say tariffs would hurt both countries' economies and would be counterproductive. And Mexico might impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729402832/mexican-government-privately-warns-trump-administration-of-counter-tariffs\">its own tariffs\u003c/a> on American products. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto-parts makers — and many other industries that are closely intertwined with Mexico — are reeling from what seems like a sudden about-face by the Trump administration. Clothing prices already spiked after the administration raised tariffs on imports from China by 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Lamar, executive vice president of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, says he was on the phone with White House officials discussing the trade deal when he heard about the new tariff threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally at the same time,\" he says. \"It does come as a gut punch in the efforts of those who are trying to get USMCA approved.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, Lamar says, tariffs have become too unpredictable. \"It is a surreal — [and] in some cases existential — crisis that every day or every couple of days these companies come into work and find that their product may be subject to additional taxes,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, businesses such as clothing manufacturers have months to adapt to tariffs and can optimize their supply chains down to the last button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Tariffs and Trade Wars\" tag=\"trade-war\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David French, senior vice president of government relations at the National Retail Federation, calls this \"tariff engineering.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where a pocket is located, what kinds of trim are attached, whether it's button or snaps — all of these things might enter into the kinds of decisions that go into tariff engineering,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when decisions on tariffs turn on a dime, it's hard to plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the challenge for Chris Miller, whose job involves vetting and buying meats, cheeses, seafood and produce sold at Mom's Organic Market, a grocery chain based in Rockville, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the season, the produce aisle relies heavily on imports of Mexican avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and stone fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the Mexican season is in for a lot of these items, that is the primary source,\" Miller says. He says new tariffs on Mexico would drive up prices on imports from other countries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the market goes up as a result of the tariffs, then — in my experience — the Canadian market will most likely follow,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This already happened with frozen fish. Prices increased everywhere after the U.S. raised tariffs on imports from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mom's Organic gets a much wider range of goods from Mexico, so Miller says he isn't sure how consumers might react to the new tariffs — or what the impact on his sales might be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=White+House%27s+About-Face+On+Mexican+Trade+A+%27Gut+Punch%27+To+U.S.+Businesses+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. industries, from grocers to clothing-makers, say President Trump's threatened tariffs on goods from Mexico raise uncertainty. 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Now we have a real question about whether that certainty even exists.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"“medium”","align":"”right”","citation":"Ann Wilson, Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just did not see this coming,\" says Ann Wilson, senior vice president of government affairs for the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association. \"Manufacturers flourish in this country when they have certainty. Now we have a real question about whether that certainty even exists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson says her industry was relieved last month when the administration lifted tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. Now, it's all back in flux. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has pledged to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729564109/mexico-tariffs-likely-to-take-effect-next-week-trump-vows-in-london\">raise tariffs on all Mexican products\u003c/a> — starting at 5% next week and rising to 25% by October. Wilson says higher tariffs would increase supply costs and hurt car sales, a double whammy. Taken together, uncertainty over trade has been a drag on the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not clear what the latest tariff threats will mean for passage of the president's own trade proposal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump is using the threats to try to force Mexico to address illegal migration, but businesses say tariffs would hurt both countries' economies and would be counterproductive. And Mexico might impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729402832/mexican-government-privately-warns-trump-administration-of-counter-tariffs\">its own tariffs\u003c/a> on American products. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto-parts makers — and many other industries that are closely intertwined with Mexico — are reeling from what seems like a sudden about-face by the Trump administration. Clothing prices already spiked after the administration raised tariffs on imports from China by 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Lamar, executive vice president of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, says he was on the phone with White House officials discussing the trade deal when he heard about the new tariff threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally at the same time,\" he says. \"It does come as a gut punch in the efforts of those who are trying to get USMCA approved.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, Lamar says, tariffs have become too unpredictable. \"It is a surreal — [and] in some cases existential — crisis that every day or every couple of days these companies come into work and find that their product may be subject to additional taxes,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, businesses such as clothing manufacturers have months to adapt to tariffs and can optimize their supply chains down to the last button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Tariffs and Trade Wars ","tag":"trade-war"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David French, senior vice president of government relations at the National Retail Federation, calls this \"tariff engineering.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where a pocket is located, what kinds of trim are attached, whether it's button or snaps — all of these things might enter into the kinds of decisions that go into tariff engineering,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when decisions on tariffs turn on a dime, it's hard to plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the challenge for Chris Miller, whose job involves vetting and buying meats, cheeses, seafood and produce sold at Mom's Organic Market, a grocery chain based in Rockville, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the season, the produce aisle relies heavily on imports of Mexican avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and stone fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the Mexican season is in for a lot of these items, that is the primary source,\" Miller says. He says new tariffs on Mexico would drive up prices on imports from other countries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the market goes up as a result of the tariffs, then — in my experience — the Canadian market will most likely follow,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This already happened with frozen fish. Prices increased everywhere after the U.S. raised tariffs on imports from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mom's Organic gets a much wider range of goods from Mexico, so Miller says he isn't sure how consumers might react to the new tariffs — or what the impact on his sales might be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=White+House%27s+About-Face+On+Mexican+Trade+A+%27Gut+Punch%27+To+U.S.+Businesses+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11752344/white-houses-about-face-on-mexican-trade-a-gut-punch-to-u-s-businesses","authors":["byline_news_11752344"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_3167","news_2403","news_18696","news_22934","news_244"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11752345","label":"source_news_11752344"},"news_11738951":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11738951","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11738951","score":null,"sort":[1554987613000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"something-in-the-silicon-valley-air-why-multinational-firms-send-their-entrepreneurs-here","title":"Something in the Silicon Valley Air: Why Multinational Firms Send Their Entrepreneurs Here","publishDate":1554987613,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\"The first impression here, I’m thinking, 'OMG, I’m really in Silicon Valley.” That is what you see on the TVs!'\" gushed Jasmine Meng, 28, a materials engineer from Shanghai who is spending the first half of 2019 trying to launch a startup in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for Meng, she has got the full backing of a giant German multinational, but more on that later. Let's talk first about Meng's winning startup idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In China’s big cities, horrendous air pollution is a regular thing, not just the occasional outgrowth of wildfires like those seen last fall in California. Air pollution is a top reason why you see so many Chinese people wearing face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven't visited China recently, you can watch any number of news reports depicting the country's struggle with air pollution:\u003cbr>\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaLuyS7yrIw]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am the potential customer of our products,\" Meng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that problem led Meng to come up with this pitch: a better face mask, one that is better fitting, better functioning, and frankly, less ugly. \"It can protect your health and in the meantime, not compromise your style,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She delivered this pitch to her employer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mann-hummel.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mann+Hummel\u003c/a>, which makes most of its billions annually from industrial air filter manufacturing; conventional car filters, to be specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Headquartered near Stuttgart, Germany, Mann+Hummel has been looking for alternative directions to pivot into, given that the conventional car market is changing dramatically, disrupted in large part by Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R17ZNvGofe4]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Germany has long been famous for its high quality engineering and manufacturing. But the future of both is all about software: automation and artificial intelligence. You want to be a player in that future? You’re going to have people working here, in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if Mann+Hummel is to survive, it needs new blockbuster products, too. So a few years ago, the company launched a startup contest called \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mann-hummel.com/en/part-innovative-start-scene/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InCube\u003c/a>. The winning idea gets you six months at a startup incubator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>, in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how Meng has come to be Chief Product Officer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/purar_us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purar\u003c/a>, “fighting smog with fashion” for a little more than three months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meng and her team members from Germany, England and Mexico are halfway through their time at \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>, a startup accelerator that partners with large companies like Mann+Hummel to — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732182/is-the-future-of-automotive-engineering-in-silicon-valley-ask-this-german-auto-giant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among other things\u003c/a> — launch startups on a test run basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purar has six months to develop Meng’s concept, identify and ink partnerships, and ultimately, make the case to headquarters that its fashionable face masks should become a Mann+Hummel department, subsidiary or spinoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been three InCube cohorts so far, all connected to filtration: indoor, water and now wearables. The first team, focused on building filtration, landed a partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.shimizu-industry.co.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shimizu Industry\u003c/a> of Japan and has since become a spinoff company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fail fast, is what they say,\" said Candace Widdoes, Plug and Play’s Chief Operating Officer. Is six months enough time to get anything started? \"Oh absolutely. We do three-month cohorts. Either you do something in three months or not! Six months is plenty of time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11739123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11739123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"The Purar team is surrounded, of course, by the requisite walls of sticky notes. But team members say the atmosphere at Plug and Play Tech Center is invigorating and optimistic. The entrepreneurs and investors they meet here are as keen to talk about collaboration as they are competition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-1200x944.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purar team is surrounded, of course, by the requisite walls of sticky notes. But team members say the atmosphere at Plug and Play Tech Center is invigorating and optimistic. The entrepreneurs and investors they meet here are as keen to talk about collaboration as they are competition. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that we operate outside rigid and fixed corporate structures, brings many advantages to it,\" said Purar’s Chief Marketing Officer, Isabell Kloess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is Silicon Valley's business culture different from that in Germany? For one thing, development projects often take three years, not three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in Silicon Valley, \"everything's happening fast. So we have to be fast. Everybody is so curious. Everybody is really smart. There's more emphasis on the sort of cooperative model where it's like maybe there's a way we can both thrive by working together on the same project,\" said Kloess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, back in Germany, \"a lot of things are standardized and planned out. One of my projects within the company prior [to Purar] was actually to standardize all of (the) processes worldwide,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11739124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11739124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-800x552.jpeg\" alt=\"The Purar team recently visited the Intertextile expo in Shanghai, looking for potential suppliers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-800x552.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-160x110.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purar team recently visited the Intertextile expo in Shanghai, looking for potential suppliers. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Purar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloess doesn’t begrudge the steady, slow methodology of her employer back home. It’s typical, and often necessary, for a so-called “legacy company to operate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that mindset often proves resistant to new ideas, killing them off — and driving out the people who generate them. Sending those people to Silicon Valley gives them a genuine chance to try something that ultimately rebounds to the benefit of the mother ship back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes the corporate employee more entrepreneurial,\" Widdoes said. \"Even if they go back to Mann+Hummel, they bring this incredible experience back with them. No matter what, it's a win-win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the talk about Purar being independent, the team’s pitch includes the backing and experience Mann+Hummel brings to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens if Purar fails?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then the next team starts,\" Kloess said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Silicon Valley startup accelerator hosts employees from companies around the globe to — what else — launch startups on a test run basis.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1589058899,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":927},"headData":{"title":"Something in the Silicon Valley Air: Why Multinational Firms Send Their Entrepreneurs Here | KQED","description":"A Silicon Valley startup accelerator hosts employees from companies around the globe to — what else — launch startups on a test run basis.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Something in the Silicon Valley Air: Why Multinational Firms Send Their Entrepreneurs Here","datePublished":"2019-04-11T13:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-09T21:14:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11738951 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11738951","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/11/something-in-the-silicon-valley-air-why-multinational-firms-send-their-entrepreneurs-here/","disqusTitle":"Something in the Silicon Valley Air: Why Multinational Firms Send Their Entrepreneurs Here","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/04/MyrowGermanyInSiliconValley.mp3","audioTrackLength":257,"path":"/news/11738951/something-in-the-silicon-valley-air-why-multinational-firms-send-their-entrepreneurs-here","audioDuration":257000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"The first impression here, I’m thinking, 'OMG, I’m really in Silicon Valley.” That is what you see on the TVs!'\" gushed Jasmine Meng, 28, a materials engineer from Shanghai who is spending the first half of 2019 trying to launch a startup in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for Meng, she has got the full backing of a giant German multinational, but more on that later. Let's talk first about Meng's winning startup idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In China’s big cities, horrendous air pollution is a regular thing, not just the occasional outgrowth of wildfires like those seen last fall in California. Air pollution is a top reason why you see so many Chinese people wearing face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven't visited China recently, you can watch any number of news reports depicting the country's struggle with air pollution:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xaLuyS7yrIw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xaLuyS7yrIw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am the potential customer of our products,\" Meng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that problem led Meng to come up with this pitch: a better face mask, one that is better fitting, better functioning, and frankly, less ugly. \"It can protect your health and in the meantime, not compromise your style,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She delivered this pitch to her employer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mann-hummel.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mann+Hummel\u003c/a>, which makes most of its billions annually from industrial air filter manufacturing; conventional car filters, to be specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Headquartered near Stuttgart, Germany, Mann+Hummel has been looking for alternative directions to pivot into, given that the conventional car market is changing dramatically, disrupted in large part by Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/R17ZNvGofe4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/R17ZNvGofe4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Germany has long been famous for its high quality engineering and manufacturing. But the future of both is all about software: automation and artificial intelligence. You want to be a player in that future? You’re going to have people working here, in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if Mann+Hummel is to survive, it needs new blockbuster products, too. So a few years ago, the company launched a startup contest called \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mann-hummel.com/en/part-innovative-start-scene/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InCube\u003c/a>. The winning idea gets you six months at a startup incubator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>, in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how Meng has come to be Chief Product Officer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/purar_us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purar\u003c/a>, “fighting smog with fashion” for a little more than three months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meng and her team members from Germany, England and Mexico are halfway through their time at \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a>, a startup accelerator that partners with large companies like Mann+Hummel to — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732182/is-the-future-of-automotive-engineering-in-silicon-valley-ask-this-german-auto-giant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among other things\u003c/a> — launch startups on a test run basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purar has six months to develop Meng’s concept, identify and ink partnerships, and ultimately, make the case to headquarters that its fashionable face masks should become a Mann+Hummel department, subsidiary or spinoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been three InCube cohorts so far, all connected to filtration: indoor, water and now wearables. The first team, focused on building filtration, landed a partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.shimizu-industry.co.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shimizu Industry\u003c/a> of Japan and has since become a spinoff company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fail fast, is what they say,\" said Candace Widdoes, Plug and Play’s Chief Operating Officer. Is six months enough time to get anything started? \"Oh absolutely. We do three-month cohorts. Either you do something in three months or not! Six months is plenty of time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11739123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11739123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"The Purar team is surrounded, of course, by the requisite walls of sticky notes. But team members say the atmosphere at Plug and Play Tech Center is invigorating and optimistic. The entrepreneurs and investors they meet here are as keen to talk about collaboration as they are competition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut-1200x944.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36470_Photo-Mar-08-8-37-31-AM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purar team is surrounded, of course, by the requisite walls of sticky notes. But team members say the atmosphere at Plug and Play Tech Center is invigorating and optimistic. The entrepreneurs and investors they meet here are as keen to talk about collaboration as they are competition. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that we operate outside rigid and fixed corporate structures, brings many advantages to it,\" said Purar’s Chief Marketing Officer, Isabell Kloess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How is Silicon Valley's business culture different from that in Germany? For one thing, development projects often take three years, not three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in Silicon Valley, \"everything's happening fast. So we have to be fast. Everybody is so curious. Everybody is really smart. There's more emphasis on the sort of cooperative model where it's like maybe there's a way we can both thrive by working together on the same project,\" said Kloess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, back in Germany, \"a lot of things are standardized and planned out. One of my projects within the company prior [to Purar] was actually to standardize all of (the) processes worldwide,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11739124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11739124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-800x552.jpeg\" alt=\"The Purar team recently visited the Intertextile expo in Shanghai, looking for potential suppliers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-800x552.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo-160x110.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Intertextile20expo.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purar team recently visited the Intertextile expo in Shanghai, looking for potential suppliers. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Purar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kloess doesn’t begrudge the steady, slow methodology of her employer back home. It’s typical, and often necessary, for a so-called “legacy company to operate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that mindset often proves resistant to new ideas, killing them off — and driving out the people who generate them. Sending those people to Silicon Valley gives them a genuine chance to try something that ultimately rebounds to the benefit of the mother ship back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes the corporate employee more entrepreneurial,\" Widdoes said. \"Even if they go back to Mann+Hummel, they bring this incredible experience back with them. No matter what, it's a win-win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the talk about Purar being independent, the team’s pitch includes the backing and experience Mann+Hummel brings to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens if Purar fails?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then the next team starts,\" Kloess said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11738951/something-in-the-silicon-valley-air-why-multinational-firms-send-their-entrepreneurs-here","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_23542","news_3167","news_2011","news_353","news_4849","news_6607"],"featImg":"news_11739121","label":"news"},"news_11732182":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11732182","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11732182","score":null,"sort":[1552395629000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-the-future-of-automotive-engineering-in-silicon-valley-ask-this-german-auto-giant","title":"Is the Future of Automotive Engineering in Silicon Valley? Ask This German Auto Giant","publishDate":1552395629,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Is the Future of Automotive Engineering in Silicon Valley? Ask This German Auto Giant | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Germany has long been famous for its high quality engineering and manufacturing. But the future of both is all about software: automation and artificial intelligence. You want to be a player in that future? You’re going to have people working here, in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a splashy ad that aired recently during the Super Bowl, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/a-class/sedan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes-Benz\u003c/a> boasted about a new, Siri-like technology available in its entry level model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Ben Boeser, Mercedes-Benz director of open innovation \"]‘It’s absolutely mandatory for automotives to be [in Silicon Valley] these days, because this is where everybody is, and where everybody innovates.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://soundhound.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundHound\u003c/a> is the company behind the technology and \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daimler\u003c/a>, the parent company of Mercedes, has access to it because it invested in the start up \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/mercedes-benz-turns-to-soundhound-for-in-vehicle-voice-assistant/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a textbook example of a big company buying something fresh from outside. It’s also the kind of partnership Mercedes-Benz Director of Open Innovation\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/benboeser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ben Boeser\u003c/a> puts together from the auto giant’s 300+ employee satellite in \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/career/about-us/locations/location-detail-page-5154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a big presence here for all of our AI and data topics, and they run like any other Silicon Valley company,” Boeser explained. In a similar fashion, there’s a relatively independent outpost for cloud computing in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world decided that the next revolution will start here, and everybody centered people here. There’s a lot of small companies that are setting up shop and bringing out new innovations. And in that sense, whatever we see here is maybe two or three years ahead of the curve. It’s absolutely mandatory for automotives to be here these days, because this is where everybody is, and where everybody innovates,” Boeser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daimler has its own R&D people in Stuttgart, of course. But there are all kinds of reasons why that’s not good enough to ensure Daimler survives the next decade. To start with, there’s the UN’s \u003ca href=\"https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XI-B-19&chapter=11&Temp=mtdsg3&clang=_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vienna Convention on Road Traffic\u003c/a>, which restricts what can be tested in Europe. You can drive crazy fast on the Autobahn. But when self-driving Mercedes taxis take test drives later this year on public streets, they’ll be toodling around \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Mercedes-robot-cabs-coming-to-San-Jose-next-year-13375215.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose\u003c/a>, not Stuttgart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"German automakers have been working in California for decades, focused on everything from consumer design trends to software. But now that software is radically changing the nature of the auto industry, Silicon Valley has grown more mission-critical to the Stuttgart-based Daimler AG.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-800x504.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-1200x756.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut.jpg 1870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">German automakers have been working in California for decades, focused on everything from consumer design trends to software. But now that software is radically changing the nature of the auto industry, Silicon Valley has grown more mission-critical to the Stuttgart-based Daimler AG. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Daimler AG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Americans, Germans are also worried about how AI technology is regulated. But automakers can’t afford to wait on the side of the road while the public policy advances. China isn’t waiting. Silicon Valley isn’t waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a place for caution. But the best way to tame future abuses of our data is to be among the players as rule makers, not rule takers,” wrote former business and technology reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/authors/kluth-andreas-english/23622140.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreas Kluth\u003c/a> in an OP/ED for the recently defunct digital news outlet \u003cem>Handlesbrott Today.\u003c/em> In the essay, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/opinion/data-slouches-why-germans-will-be-left-behind-in-artificial-intelligence/23583536.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Why Germans Will Be Left Behind in Artificial Intelligence, \u003c/em>\u003c/a>Kluth warns, “Germans are living in a comfortable present, oblivious to an uncertain future. Sure, it’s nice to have a Mittelstand that makes the world’s best ventilators, ball bearings, and screws. And next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough, recent reports show the Germany auto industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/20/slack-demand-car-woes-cause-germanys-industry-share-to-slip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggling\u003c/a>, and not just because of the recent scandals over \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/09/18/no-respite-for-german-automakers-as-dieselgates-third-anniversary-brings-fresh-cartel-probe/#14240bf27c9d\">c\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/09/18/no-respite-for-german-automakers-as-dieselgates-third-anniversary-brings-fresh-cartel-probe/#14240bf27c9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ollusion involving air pollution\u003c/a> standards. Some say that’s simply the most recent sign of a backwards-facing hubris built on past achievements exporting high-value engineering goods.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeser explained, “If you are in the automotive industry and you’ve been there for decades, it’s hard to imagine that everything could be turned upside down. But even if you just look at the last 10 years and how quickly new competitors enter the market, you realize that it is easier than it ever was to build a car, easier than it ever was to reinvent certain aspects of the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeser’s getting an assist from a corporate matchmaker of sorts called \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale. With 27 locations worldwide, Plug and Play maintains a huge, global rolodex of startups. Daimler’s recent deal with the London-based software startup \u003ca href=\"https://what3words.com/2018/01/daimler-announces-investment-what3words/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what3words\u003c/a> is another example of this working partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f14iJ7_o1Rg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/about/our-team/candace-widdoes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candace Widdoes\u003c/a> says “legacy” companies — in Germany and Japan, especially — are willing to pay big money to get hooked up with young start-ups; but also learn how to work with those little guys, so as not to crush their creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this cultural element, where it’s kind of hard to bring change to a large corporation. This is true in every industry,” Widdoes said. “Long-established companies are realizing they have to drop the typical rules to keep up, to stay alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, when foreign companies spend time here, they quickly realize you don’t have to buy a new idea. You can also copy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber’s CEO announced he wanted the company to become the “Amazon of transportation,” your go-to resource for everything from scooters to flying taxis. This year, Daimler and BMW announced a $1 billion investment to do the \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/company/bmw-and-daimler.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same thing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our company has been working on autonomous since 20-something years. So it’s not that it’s a new topic for us. But thinking about it as a new business model, that is a learning curve for us,” Boeser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, recently teamed up with a Santa Clara-based company on a new voice-controlled 'infotainment' system.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710729406,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1006},"headData":{"title":"Is the Future of Automotive Engineering in Silicon Valley? Ask This German Auto Giant | KQED","description":"Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, recently teamed up with a Santa Clara-based company on a new voice-controlled 'infotainment' system.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is the Future of Automotive Engineering in Silicon Valley? Ask This German Auto Giant","datePublished":"2019-03-12T13:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-18T02:36:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/03/MyrowDaimlerinSV.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":224,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11732182/is-the-future-of-automotive-engineering-in-silicon-valley-ask-this-german-auto-giant","audioDuration":224000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Germany has long been famous for its high quality engineering and manufacturing. But the future of both is all about software: automation and artificial intelligence. You want to be a player in that future? You’re going to have people working here, in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a splashy ad that aired recently during the Super Bowl, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/a-class/sedan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes-Benz\u003c/a> boasted about a new, Siri-like technology available in its entry level model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s absolutely mandatory for automotives to be [in Silicon Valley] these days, because this is where everybody is, and where everybody innovates.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"”right”","citation":"Ben Boeser, Mercedes-Benz director of open innovation ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara-based \u003ca href=\"https://soundhound.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundHound\u003c/a> is the company behind the technology and \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daimler\u003c/a>, the parent company of Mercedes, has access to it because it invested in the start up \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/mercedes-benz-turns-to-soundhound-for-in-vehicle-voice-assistant/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a textbook example of a big company buying something fresh from outside. It’s also the kind of partnership Mercedes-Benz Director of Open Innovation\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/benboeser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ben Boeser\u003c/a> puts together from the auto giant’s 300+ employee satellite in \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/career/about-us/locations/location-detail-page-5154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a big presence here for all of our AI and data topics, and they run like any other Silicon Valley company,” Boeser explained. In a similar fashion, there’s a relatively independent outpost for cloud computing in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world decided that the next revolution will start here, and everybody centered people here. There’s a lot of small companies that are setting up shop and bringing out new innovations. And in that sense, whatever we see here is maybe two or three years ahead of the curve. It’s absolutely mandatory for automotives to be here these days, because this is where everybody is, and where everybody innovates,” Boeser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daimler has its own R&D people in Stuttgart, of course. But there are all kinds of reasons why that’s not good enough to ensure Daimler survives the next decade. To start with, there’s the UN’s \u003ca href=\"https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XI-B-19&chapter=11&Temp=mtdsg3&clang=_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vienna Convention on Road Traffic\u003c/a>, which restricts what can be tested in Europe. You can drive crazy fast on the Autobahn. But when self-driving Mercedes taxis take test drives later this year on public streets, they’ll be toodling around \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Mercedes-robot-cabs-coming-to-San-Jose-next-year-13375215.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose\u003c/a>, not Stuttgart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"German automakers have been working in California for decades, focused on everything from consumer design trends to software. But now that software is radically changing the nature of the auto industry, Silicon Valley has grown more mission-critical to the Stuttgart-based Daimler AG.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-800x504.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut-1200x756.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35754_Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.39-PM-qut.jpg 1870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">German automakers have been working in California for decades, focused on everything from consumer design trends to software. But now that software is radically changing the nature of the auto industry, Silicon Valley has grown more mission-critical to the Stuttgart-based Daimler AG. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Daimler AG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Americans, Germans are also worried about how AI technology is regulated. But automakers can’t afford to wait on the side of the road while the public policy advances. China isn’t waiting. Silicon Valley isn’t waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a place for caution. But the best way to tame future abuses of our data is to be among the players as rule makers, not rule takers,” wrote former business and technology reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/authors/kluth-andreas-english/23622140.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreas Kluth\u003c/a> in an OP/ED for the recently defunct digital news outlet \u003cem>Handlesbrott Today.\u003c/em> In the essay, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/opinion/data-slouches-why-germans-will-be-left-behind-in-artificial-intelligence/23583536.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Why Germans Will Be Left Behind in Artificial Intelligence, \u003c/em>\u003c/a>Kluth warns, “Germans are living in a comfortable present, oblivious to an uncertain future. Sure, it’s nice to have a Mittelstand that makes the world’s best ventilators, ball bearings, and screws. And next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough, recent reports show the Germany auto industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/20/slack-demand-car-woes-cause-germanys-industry-share-to-slip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggling\u003c/a>, and not just because of the recent scandals over \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/09/18/no-respite-for-german-automakers-as-dieselgates-third-anniversary-brings-fresh-cartel-probe/#14240bf27c9d\">c\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/09/18/no-respite-for-german-automakers-as-dieselgates-third-anniversary-brings-fresh-cartel-probe/#14240bf27c9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ollusion involving air pollution\u003c/a> standards. Some say that’s simply the most recent sign of a backwards-facing hubris built on past achievements exporting high-value engineering goods.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeser explained, “If you are in the automotive industry and you’ve been there for decades, it’s hard to imagine that everything could be turned upside down. But even if you just look at the last 10 years and how quickly new competitors enter the market, you realize that it is easier than it ever was to build a car, easier than it ever was to reinvent certain aspects of the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeser’s getting an assist from a corporate matchmaker of sorts called \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plug and Play Tech Center\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale. With 27 locations worldwide, Plug and Play maintains a huge, global rolodex of startups. Daimler’s recent deal with the London-based software startup \u003ca href=\"https://what3words.com/2018/01/daimler-announces-investment-what3words/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what3words\u003c/a> is another example of this working partnership.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/f14iJ7_o1Rg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/f14iJ7_o1Rg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/about/our-team/candace-widdoes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candace Widdoes\u003c/a> says “legacy” companies — in Germany and Japan, especially — are willing to pay big money to get hooked up with young start-ups; but also learn how to work with those little guys, so as not to crush their creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this cultural element, where it’s kind of hard to bring change to a large corporation. This is true in every industry,” Widdoes said. “Long-established companies are realizing they have to drop the typical rules to keep up, to stay alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, when foreign companies spend time here, they quickly realize you don’t have to buy a new idea. You can also copy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber’s CEO announced he wanted the company to become the “Amazon of transportation,” your go-to resource for everything from scooters to flying taxis. This year, Daimler and BMW announced a $1 billion investment to do the \u003ca href=\"https://www.daimler.com/company/bmw-and-daimler.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same thing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our company has been working on autonomous since 20-something years. So it’s not that it’s a new topic for us. But thinking about it as a new business model, that is a learning curve for us,” Boeser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11732182/is-the-future-of-automotive-engineering-in-silicon-valley-ask-this-german-auto-giant","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_25184","news_23542","news_3167","news_2011","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11732340","label":"news"},"news_11598951":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11598951","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11598951","score":null,"sort":[1501541156000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"electric-bus-makers-poised-for-an-l-a-gold-rush","title":"Electric Bus Makers Poised for an L.A. Gold Rush","publishDate":1501541156,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There's a highly charged competition going on in Los Angeles right now, and it’s between manufacturers of electric buses. Transit agencies around the country are going electric. San Francisco has been buying biodiesel hybrid buses and electric trolleys for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles wants to go electric, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A.'s transit agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/\">Metro\u003c/a>, has a goal of converting its bus fleet to 100 percent electric by 2030. The agency says it will spend around $100 million a year in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are at least 10 companies in Southern California making and selling battery electric buses. The biggest is the Chinese company \u003ca href=\"http://www.byd.com/usa/bus/\">BYD\u003c/a>, which has a factory in Lancaster employing over 500 people, and \u003ca href=\"http://ebus.com/\">Ebus\u003c/a> in Downey. The Silicon Valley startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.proterra.com/\">Proterra\u003c/a>, with a new assembly plant in City of Industry, likens itself to the Tesla of electric buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is it possible the capital of car culture is advancing the art of the humble bus, even as Metro currently grapples with a fall in bus ridership?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re basically becoming the Detroit of electric transportation,” says Jeff Joyner, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://laedc.org/our-services/initiatives/e4-mobility-alliance/\">E4 Mobility Alliance\u003c/a>, an industry council working to bring advanced transportation to the Southland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had the supply chain from the aerospace industry … so those same engineers and those same companies that were supplying motors and various capacitors and technologies related to batteries are now supplying this advanced transportation industry,” according to Joyner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Metro Prepares to Go Electric\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To get an idea of what’s at stake here, consider a contract the Metro board approved on July 27. The agency agreed to spend more than $138 million for \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-electric-buses-20170727-story.html\">95 buses\u003c/a> from the Canadian company \u003ca href=\"https://www.newflyer.com/\">New Flyer\u003c/a>, which has a service center in Ontario, California, and the Chinese-owned BYD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These buses will run on Metro’s Orange Line busway in the San Fernando Valley and in the Silver Line carpool lane along the Harbor and San Bernardino freeways. It’s the agency’s cautious first step toward its 2030 zero-emission bus goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Metro fully replaced its diesel buses with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses that are nearly as clean as their electric counterparts. It is still buying CNG buses, even as it moves toward converting its entire fleet of 2,300 buses to all-electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metro’s goal of going all-electric by 2030 fits with the state’s clean energy goals. Lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/25/brown-schwarzenegger-celebrate-extension-of-cap-and-trade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the state’s cap-and-trade program\u003c/a> -- a market-based system to limit emissions -- and state utilities are moving toward generating 60 percent renewable energy by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proterra’s New Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the electric bus companies that hopes to win future contracts with the agency just got to work in Los Angeles' City of Industry. Proterra’s $20 million West Coast facility opened there officially with a big party on July 26, which Gov. Jerry Brown attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really impressed with people who invent stuff, who make stuff, who use their hands,\" Brown said at the ceremony. \"In my business we only use our mouths -- that’s our big expertise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11604382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11604382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager at Proterra's City of Industry facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1020x820.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1180x948.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-960x772.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-520x418.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager, at Proterra's City of Industry facility. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proterra has sold about 400 buses to transit agencies all over the country, including in the Central Valley. Their buses are already on the roads in Seattle, San Antonio, Stockton and Reno. And, they make up the entire fleet for nearby Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping to get to the point where Tesla is called the Proterra of carmakers, but we’re not quite there yet,” said Proterra CEO and president Ryan Popple. He previously served as the senior director of finance for Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proterra was founded in 2004 and began assembling their electric buses in Greenville, South Carolina. Their new facility in City of Industry is meant to serve West Coast transit agencies. The company’s headquarters in Burlingame is also the location of its battery testing facility.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"L.A. plans to convert its bus fleet to 100 percent electric by 2030. And it says it will spend around $100 million a year in contracts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501542489,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":698},"headData":{"title":"Electric Bus Makers Poised for an L.A. Gold Rush | KQED","description":"L.A. plans to convert its bus fleet to 100 percent electric by 2030. And it says it will spend around $100 million a year in contracts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Electric Bus Makers Poised for an L.A. 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Transit agencies around the country are going electric. San Francisco has been buying biodiesel hybrid buses and electric trolleys for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles wants to go electric, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A.'s transit agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/\">Metro\u003c/a>, has a goal of converting its bus fleet to 100 percent electric by 2030. The agency says it will spend around $100 million a year in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are at least 10 companies in Southern California making and selling battery electric buses. The biggest is the Chinese company \u003ca href=\"http://www.byd.com/usa/bus/\">BYD\u003c/a>, which has a factory in Lancaster employing over 500 people, and \u003ca href=\"http://ebus.com/\">Ebus\u003c/a> in Downey. The Silicon Valley startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.proterra.com/\">Proterra\u003c/a>, with a new assembly plant in City of Industry, likens itself to the Tesla of electric buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is it possible the capital of car culture is advancing the art of the humble bus, even as Metro currently grapples with a fall in bus ridership?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re basically becoming the Detroit of electric transportation,” says Jeff Joyner, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://laedc.org/our-services/initiatives/e4-mobility-alliance/\">E4 Mobility Alliance\u003c/a>, an industry council working to bring advanced transportation to the Southland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had the supply chain from the aerospace industry … so those same engineers and those same companies that were supplying motors and various capacitors and technologies related to batteries are now supplying this advanced transportation industry,” according to Joyner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Metro Prepares to Go Electric\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To get an idea of what’s at stake here, consider a contract the Metro board approved on July 27. The agency agreed to spend more than $138 million for \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-electric-buses-20170727-story.html\">95 buses\u003c/a> from the Canadian company \u003ca href=\"https://www.newflyer.com/\">New Flyer\u003c/a>, which has a service center in Ontario, California, and the Chinese-owned BYD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These buses will run on Metro’s Orange Line busway in the San Fernando Valley and in the Silver Line carpool lane along the Harbor and San Bernardino freeways. It’s the agency’s cautious first step toward its 2030 zero-emission bus goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Metro fully replaced its diesel buses with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses that are nearly as clean as their electric counterparts. It is still buying CNG buses, even as it moves toward converting its entire fleet of 2,300 buses to all-electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metro’s goal of going all-electric by 2030 fits with the state’s clean energy goals. Lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/25/brown-schwarzenegger-celebrate-extension-of-cap-and-trade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the state’s cap-and-trade program\u003c/a> -- a market-based system to limit emissions -- and state utilities are moving toward generating 60 percent renewable energy by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proterra’s New Factory\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the electric bus companies that hopes to win future contracts with the agency just got to work in Los Angeles' City of Industry. Proterra’s $20 million West Coast facility opened there officially with a big party on July 26, which Gov. Jerry Brown attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really impressed with people who invent stuff, who make stuff, who use their hands,\" Brown said at the ceremony. \"In my business we only use our mouths -- that’s our big expertise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11604382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11604382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager at Proterra's City of Industry facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1020x820.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-1180x948.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-960x772.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-240x193.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-375x301.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ProterraGuys-520x418.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Mottram (L), plant manager, and T.J. Nass, customer program manager, at Proterra's City of Industry facility. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proterra has sold about 400 buses to transit agencies all over the country, including in the Central Valley. Their buses are already on the roads in Seattle, San Antonio, Stockton and Reno. And, they make up the entire fleet for nearby Foothill Transit in the San Gabriel Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping to get to the point where Tesla is called the Proterra of carmakers, but we’re not quite there yet,” said Proterra CEO and president Ryan Popple. He previously served as the senior director of finance for Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proterra was founded in 2004 and began assembling their electric buses in Greenville, South Carolina. Their new facility in City of Industry is meant to serve West Coast transit agencies. The company’s headquarters in Burlingame is also the location of its battery testing facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11598951/electric-bus-makers-poised-for-an-l-a-gold-rush","authors":["byline_news_11598951"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_356","news_1397"],"tags":["news_2036","news_21349","news_255","news_4","news_3167","news_1764","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11604375","label":"news_72"},"news_11067461":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11067461","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11067461","score":null,"sort":[1472676499000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-california-curbing-trade-might-have-its-trade-offs","title":"In California, Curbing Trade Might Have Its Trade-Offs","publishDate":1472676499,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Inside a sprawling warehouse just outside downtown Los Angeles, a line of seamstresses sew high-end blouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This city is still the garment capital of the U.S., even though it employs a fraction of the workers it once did. Since 1990, the number of U.S. apparel manufacturing jobs has fallen by 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charts and the statistics are really frightening,\" says Ilse Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek, who has worked in the industry for half a century, says she has seen firsthand the devastating effects free trade agreements have had across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely terrible,\" Metchek says. In the years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, she says, \"we lost 50,000 jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ogEEtkzYhViFlujx91cH6ZEMBUHKgqMx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"u4tdcuO5VFtP3TFxhjneL6FsrGDArVmv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What would happen to the U.S. economy if the next president sparked a trade war and the flow of goods was cut off? One place to look for an answer: California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1472678172,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":981},"headData":{"title":"In California, Curbing Trade Might Have Its Trade-Offs | KQED","description":"What would happen to the U.S. economy if the next president sparked a trade war and the flow of goods was cut off? 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Since 1990, the number of U.S. apparel manufacturing jobs has fallen by 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charts and the statistics are really frightening,\" says Ilse Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek, who has worked in the industry for half a century, says she has seen firsthand the devastating effects free trade agreements have had across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely terrible,\" Metchek says. In the years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, she says, \"we lost 50,000 jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11067461/in-california-curbing-trade-might-have-its-trade-offs","authors":["byline_news_11067461"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_4","news_3167","news_17286","news_18696"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11067469","label":"source_news_11067461"},"news_10778135":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10778135","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10778135","score":null,"sort":[1449043502000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion","title":"From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. Fashion","publishDate":1449043502,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Los Angeles is a region better known for Hollywood, but it actually has more manufacturing jobs than any other metro area in the U.S. Of the more than half-million manufacturing jobs in the region, about 50,000 of them are in the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fashion is a big part of L.A.'s identity, and you feel it in the Fashion District downtown. It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QNVLCx8OoEhArjc0PqcTlvJDK1xEZ2bm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. The previous owners were selling, he says, because clients wanted to move production to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in that time, I didn't know,\" he says. \"So maybe if I know what happened, maybe I don't take it, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he took a risk and is still in the game today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"L.A.'s fashion industry has been bleeding jobs, but one bright spot has been high-end denim. Whereas $30 jeans are often made in China or Mexico, designer jeans are almost always made here.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449014779,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":880},"headData":{"title":"From Pocket Lining to Jeans, a Niche Means Survival in L.A. 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It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. The previous owners were selling, he says, because clients wanted to move production to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in that time, I didn't know,\" he says. \"So maybe if I know what happened, maybe I don't take it, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he took a risk and is still in the game today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10778135/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-l-a-fashion","authors":["byline_news_10778135"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_4","news_3167","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_10778150","label":"news_72"},"news_10776833":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10776833","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10776833","score":null,"sort":[1448978437000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies","title":"What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies","publishDate":1448978437,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In 2015, what has American made? The U.S. is known for manufacturing — it's part of our identity, though jobs have been lost. They've gone overseas. Technology has changed the way things are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, America is still making stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of jobs, the Los Angeles area is the biggest manufacturing hub in the country. There are a few reasons why. There is plenty of space here to build things like factories and runways. That beautiful California weather? It's actually great for testing planes year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure here is also key. The huge ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles let companies quickly ship products to a global market, and get raw materials to build. A massive logistics region just east of Los Angeles, in the Inland Empire, is the first stop before products get on trucks to go across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-metros-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-metros-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"418px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, there are the people. The huge population base in Southern California is not only a good source of labor, but they also need to buy things, and they provide a built-in market for some manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of challenges, and the region has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flying over L.A. would give you a bird's-eye view of how the geography of the city has been shaped by — and has shaped — manufacturing. On the coast, there are the ports, where $1 billion in goods come in and out every day. The ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Off the coast, ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/455886225/457837774\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland, in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers, there are miles of white-roofed factories, where workers make everything from clothing to furniture, from metal arts to food products. And then, as the city sprawls out, there's the new aerospace industry, which is a smaller, sleeker version of the one that thrived during World War II, the Cold War and the space race with the Soviet Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerospace has had its heart in L.A. for decades, and SpaceX is a good symbol of the future of that industry. Its headquarters in the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne had at one time been used to make fuselages for Boeing airplanes. Now it houses a private company that's venturing into outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg\" alt=\"The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-400x190.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-1180x559.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-960x455.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technology — like drones and satellite communications — is also part of the new aerospace industry in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area's ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city may be known for Hollywood, but beyond the Hollywood sign and the Hollywood Hills are places like Burbank, where during World War II, big aerospace manufacturers like Lockheed came after getting defense contracts. Once orange groves, these towns offered companies space to make warplanes. Aerospace manufacturers also settled in other towns like Hawthorne and El Segundo, further stretching L.A.'s sprawl and the need for swirls of highway, and, in the process, helping to create the geography of the city today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg\" alt=\"Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-400x437.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \u003ccite>(Top: Kevin Leahy/NPR; Bottom left: Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty; Bottom right: SpaceX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not like manufacturing is thriving as it had. There are many challenges in this economy. The aerospace industry has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past 25 years. Costs are high in Southern California, and some companies are moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Hynes, CEO of a company that makes jet engine parts called Composites Horizons, has lived through all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is certainly no greater joy for a manufacturer [than] to walk through the factory and hear the noises and sounds of machines turning and people doing work,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father started the company in 1976. \"We're in a transformational time. Just aerospace manufacturing in general, it's a good time. So, yeah, we aren't looking at a cliff,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cliff for Hynes was 1997, when McDonnell Douglas, a huge airplane manufacturer in Los Angeles, left after merging with Boeing in Seattle. Hynes' company, located about 20 miles outside downtown L.A., instantly lost 40 percent of its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we were kind of in a seminal moment in terms of determining where we were going to go with the business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-e1448919358611.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10776834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-400x244.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing.\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company shrank and then reinvented itself as a maker of niche jet engine parts. A lot of companies have had to take risks like that. Some American manufacturers have figured out that, in this crazy global marketplace, one way to survive is to focus on something high-end or specialized and just do it well. But that's presented another challenge — finding the people who can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not likely that we're going to find people that are trained in the skills that we need them to be trained in,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialized manufacturers aren't finding the workers they need. The companies are doing training on their own. Schools are adapting, too, given that 80 percent of the world's aerospace fasteners — nuts, bolts, the things that hold one part of a plane to another — are made in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Yaghmai, a professor at El Camino Community College's Compton campus, developed, with industry help, the only community college program in the country that trains machinists to make aerospace fasteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaghmai, 62, who's originally from Iran, spent a majority of his career in the U.S. working as a mechanical engineer for various companies. He's been teaching in Compton for the past 6½ years. \"I felt like I could contribute more,\" he says. \"My wife is African-American, and I like to contribute to the people that are maybe not as economically privileged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton is an economically depressed community. Only 7 percent of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher. African-Americans were once the majority; now Latinos hold that status\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-industries-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-industries-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"618px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Franz Dirzo's parents migrated from southern Mexico. Dirzo finishes his overnight job operating a forklift for Lowe's at 5 a.m., grabs a bite and a nap and takes classes from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. two days a week. He's hoping he'll land a job in aerospace making more an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hearing things from like $18, $20 [an hour], so, very enticing,\" he says. He currently earns $13 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encouraged his cousin, Jose Lazaro, 24 -- who's working at Home Depot -- to join him. And even though they've had difficulty making it to class on time, and staying awake during the lectures, Lazaro says he and his cousin are determined to finish the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to SpaceX; that's the goal right there,\" Lazaro says. \"I see myself in SpaceX, I see him in SpaceX. That's where we're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Gets+Made+In+LA+Is+Way+More+Than+Movies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Los Angeles region is home to the most manufacturing jobs in the nation, with factories producing everything from clothes to metal parts to new aerospace tech. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449009999,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1378},"headData":{"title":"What Gets Made in L.A. Is Way More Than Movies | KQED","description":"The Los Angeles region is home to the most manufacturing jobs in the nation, with factories producing everything from clothes to metal parts to new aerospace tech. 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The U.S. is known for manufacturing — it's part of our identity, though jobs have been lost. They've gone overseas. Technology has changed the way things are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, America is still making stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in terms of jobs, the Los Angeles area is the biggest manufacturing hub in the country. There are a few reasons why. There is plenty of space here to build things like factories and runways. That beautiful California weather? It's actually great for testing planes year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure here is also key. The huge ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles let companies quickly ship products to a global market, and get raw materials to build. A massive logistics region just east of Los Angeles, in the Inland Empire, is the first stop before products get on trucks to go across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-metros-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-metros-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"418px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, there are the people. The huge population base in Southern California is not only a good source of labor, but they also need to buy things, and they provide a built-in market for some manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of challenges, and the region has lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flying over L.A. would give you a bird's-eye view of how the geography of the city has been shaped by — and has shaped — manufacturing. On the coast, there are the ports, where $1 billion in goods come in and out every day. The ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Off the coast, ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/455886225/457837774\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland, in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers, there are miles of white-roofed factories, where workers make everything from clothing to furniture, from metal arts to food products. And then, as the city sprawls out, there's the new aerospace industry, which is a smaller, sleeker version of the one that thrived during World War II, the Cold War and the space race with the Soviet Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerospace has had its heart in L.A. for decades, and SpaceX is a good symbol of the future of that industry. Its headquarters in the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne had at one time been used to make fuselages for Boeing airplanes. Now it houses a private company that's venturing into outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg\" alt=\"The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-800x379.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-400x190.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-1180x559.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports-960x455.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/laports.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach play a major role in the local economy – more than $1 billion worth of product moves through these ports each day. They make it easier to import goods like electronics, furniture and auto parts from Asia, as well as export goods produced in Southern Californa, like high-end jeans and agricultural goods. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technology — like drones and satellite communications — is also part of the new aerospace industry in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area's ports have helped make it easier to export the goods made here. Ships wait in long lines along the coast to get in. There, shipping containers pile up on top of each other like Legos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city may be known for Hollywood, but beyond the Hollywood sign and the Hollywood Hills are places like Burbank, where during World War II, big aerospace manufacturers like Lockheed came after getting defense contracts. Once orange groves, these towns offered companies space to make warplanes. Aerospace manufacturers also settled in other towns like Hawthorne and El Segundo, further stretching L.A.'s sprawl and the need for swirls of highway, and, in the process, helping to create the geography of the city today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776893\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg\" alt=\"Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. SpaceX designs and manufactures most of its spacecraft in this factory, which was once owned by the Northrop Corp., where parts were made for Boeing 747 aircraft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-400x437.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/spacexplant.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerospace has long been at the heart of manufacturing in Southern California. Commercial space exploration company SpaceX, formed in 2002, found a home in Hawthorne, in southwestern Los Angeles. 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Just aerospace manufacturing in general, it's a good time. So, yeah, we aren't looking at a cliff,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cliff for Hynes was 1997, when McDonnell Douglas, a huge airplane manufacturer in Los Angeles, left after merging with Boeing in Seattle. Hynes' company, located about 20 miles outside downtown L.A., instantly lost 40 percent of its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we were kind of in a seminal moment in terms of determining where we were going to go with the business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10776834\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-e1448919358611.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10776834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/aerospace-training-shereen_custom-ee1cc05d63a4663c2ae194e7c64125418c755168-400x244.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing.\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Philip Yaghmai (left) talks to Ismael Becerra, 18, in the lab at El Camino Community College's Compton campus. Students translate machining theory into practice on vertical mills, CNC machines and other heavy equipment used in aerospace fastener manufacturing. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company shrank and then reinvented itself as a maker of niche jet engine parts. A lot of companies have had to take risks like that. Some American manufacturers have figured out that, in this crazy global marketplace, one way to survive is to focus on something high-end or specialized and just do it well. But that's presented another challenge — finding the people who can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not likely that we're going to find people that are trained in the skills that we need them to be trained in,\" Hynes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialized manufacturers aren't finding the workers they need. The companies are doing training on their own. Schools are adapting, too, given that 80 percent of the world's aerospace fasteners — nuts, bolts, the things that hold one part of a plane to another — are made in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Yaghmai, a professor at El Camino Community College's Compton campus, developed, with industry help, the only community college program in the country that trains machinists to make aerospace fasteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaghmai, 62, who's originally from Iran, spent a majority of his career in the U.S. working as a mechanical engineer for various companies. He's been teaching in Compton for the past 6½ years. \"I felt like I could contribute more,\" he says. \"My wife is African-American, and I like to contribute to the people that are maybe not as economically privileged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton is an economically depressed community. Only 7 percent of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher. African-Americans were once the majority; now Latinos hold that status\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/manufacturing-industries-20151113/child.html?initialWidth=1240&childId=responsive-embed-manufacturing-industries-20151113&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2015%2F11%2F30%2F455886225%2Fwhat-gets-made-in-la-is-way-more-than-movies\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"618px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Franz Dirzo's parents migrated from southern Mexico. Dirzo finishes his overnight job operating a forklift for Lowe's at 5 a.m., grabs a bite and a nap and takes classes from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. two days a week. He's hoping he'll land a job in aerospace making more an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hearing things from like $18, $20 [an hour], so, very enticing,\" he says. He currently earns $13 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He encouraged his cousin, Jose Lazaro, 24 -- who's working at Home Depot -- to join him. And even though they've had difficulty making it to class on time, and staying awake during the lectures, Lazaro says he and his cousin are determined to finish the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to SpaceX; that's the goal right there,\" Lazaro says. \"I see myself in SpaceX, I see him in SpaceX. That's where we're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Gets+Made+In+LA+Is+Way+More+Than+Movies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10776833/what-gets-made-in-l-a-is-way-more-than-movies","authors":["byline_news_10776833"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_248"],"tags":["news_4","news_3167","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10776835","label":"news_72"},"news_10637785":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10637785","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10637785","score":null,"sort":[1439230717000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"food-manufacturers-look-for-ways-to-save-water-during-drought","title":"Food Manufacturers Look for Ways to Save Water During Drought","publishDate":1439230717,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>As California's drought persists, local food manufacturers are feeling the pressure to cut water use in their factories without changing the taste and quality of the products they sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food processing and manufacturing sector produces everything from salsa, to baked goods, to bottled beverages. 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