Trans Alaska Trail

Pipelines aren’t typically known as havens of outdoor recreation, and they aren’t often heralded as entirely environmentally friendly either. Maybe many of these opinions can be attributed to misinformation, misunderstanding, or any number of other reasons, but clearly, there is some truth there as well. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline extends across the state [photo credit: wikipedia] …

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Meet the Sawyer Team – Randy

  Our employees are a great group of skilled individuals that contribute to our unique culture at Sawyer. We would like everyone to Meet the Sawyer Team. HEY Randy…. What do you do at Sawyer? I am a manual machinist. What is your favorite thing to work on? The last thing I worked on was…

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Natural Gas Surpassing Coal

Natural gas will be carrying the load in the U.S. soon. The U.S. Energy Information Administration is now forecasting that 2016 will be the first year that natural gas-fired generation exceeds coal generation in the United States on an annual basis. The EIA’s report states, “The mix of fuels used for electricity generation has evolved…

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Meet the Sawyer Team – Krystal Bornhop

Our employees are a great group of skilled individuals that contribute to our unique culture at Sawyer. We would like everyone to Meet the Sawyer Team. HEY Krystal…. What do you do at Sawyer? Lots of things! I work on all things marketing: the website, social media, all our printed material like catalogs and brochures,…

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Low Prices Are The Captain Now

In all the doom and gloom talk surrounding the low price of oil these days, there has been little talk of the upside, aside from lower prices for consumers at the gas pump. Shouldn’t there be some sort of bright side? Didn’t Newton say something about equal and opposite reactions? Should that apply here? I…

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Meet the Sawyer Team – Davie

Our employees are a great group of skilled individuals that contribute to our unique culture at Sawyer. We would like everyone to Meet the Sawyer Team. HEY Davie…. What do you do at Sawyer? Outside Sales. I spent 3 weeks out of the month on the road selling our products to existing customers and trying…

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Meet the Sawyer Team – Kenny

Our employees are a great group of skilled individuals that contribute to our unique culture at Sawyer. We would like everyone to Meet the Sawyer Team. HEY Kenny…. What do you do at Sawyer? I work on most manual machines. What is your favorite thing to work on? I like to run the boring machine.…

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Spotlight: Sawyer Services

Recently, Sawyer Mfg. launched Sawyer Services, an entirely new endeavor to further its aim of constantly adding new value to its offerings. This new endeavor is the company’s expanded line of Services and Solutions. Sawyer has long been known for its high quality manufacturing abilities and the resulting products, but now, those skills, abilities and…

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Oil Prices: What the what?

The falling price of oil Vox recently published a piece about oil prices, and it’s certainly worth a read. It explains the hows and whys of the tumbling price of oil in layman’s terms. Spoiler alert: it’s almost entirely a matter of supply and demand with a game of chicken between OPEC suppliers and US-based…

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Meet the Sawyer Team – John

  Our employees are a great group of skilled individuals that contribute to our unique culture at Sawyer. We would like everyone to Meet the Sawyer Team. HEY John…. What do you do at Sawyer? Production Management. What is your favorite thing to work on? My favorite thing is developing new products or special order…

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