The last time a piece of technology significantly overhauled the textile industry, it was 1842 with the invention of the sewing machine. Today, robots can handle parts ...
COROZAL, PUERTO RICO–(Marketwired – Oct 3, 2016) – Bluewater Defense, Inc. (BWD) is celebrating National Manufacturing Day for the first time – an appreciation of what 12 million people around the United States demonstrate every day ...
COROZAL, Puerto Rico — With official unemployment running 11.7 percent in Puerto Rico, the 523 people working in this small hill town value these jobs… Eric Spackey, chief executive of Bluewater, said he too feels pressure to keep the doors o ...
Bluewater Defense CEO Eric Spackey vividly recalls the difficult times the company endured five years ago. There were no large contracts in the pipeline, and the future was uncertain. “It was a very rough way to start in this business,” Spackey s ...
A new nonprofit will seek to speed the arrival of next-generation fabrics that can store energy, control their own temperature, change color and behave like computer sensors. MIT professor Yoel Fink, who is leading the effort, envisions the creation ...
Even that cartoon-strip cop Dick Tracy, with that fancy two-way wrist radio in 1946, could never have envisioned that folks would be trotting around 70 years later with digital fitness devices and miniature computers strapped around their arms. ̵ ...
I walked up to the Bluewater Defense booth and noticed that they were sharing it with an electronics company named Vorbeck. Intrigued, I introduced myself to the Vorbeck team and they started to show me what they were up to. About a minute into the p ...
The cost and availability of energy “is probably the most serious issue we face today,” said Eric Spackey, chief executive officer of Bluewater Defense, a manufacturer of uniforms and protective clothing for the military. “My largest fixed cost ...
