NAM to Kick off 2025 Competing to Win Tour
The NAM’s 2025 Competing to Win Tour—a four-day whirlwind of talks, facility visits, college campus tours, roundtable discussions and more—kicks off next week. On the road, the NAM will highlight how the right policies can help create more manufacturing jobs, increase paychecks and strengthen communities nationwide.
Here’s a preview of what we’ll be doing.
The SOM Address: Up first is NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons’ annual State of Manufacturing Address, which he’ll give at 9:00 a.m. EST Tuesday at Armstrong World Industries in Hilliard, Ohio. (Tune in live here.)
- The speech—at which Timmons will be joined by Ohio Manufacturers’ Association President Ryan Augsburger and NAM Executive Vice President Erin Streeter—comes just weeks before President Trump delivers his first address to Congress in his second term.
- After the SOM Address, Timmons will head to the Ohio Statehouse for a major event on tax reform. There, Timmons will hammer home the criticality of preserving pro-manufacturing tax policies from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Timmons will also visit Columbus State Community College on Tuesday.
Texas: Next, the NAM will head to Texas, where on Wednesday it will tour Freeport LNG’s liquefaction facility near the city of Freeport and tour the Houston facility of valve and actuator manufacturer Bray International.
- Also on Wednesday, Timmons will participate in a business roundtable at the Energy Institute High School in Houston.
Alabama: On Thursday, the NAM will be in Alabama, where MI President and Executive Director Carolyn Lee will give the MI’s State of the U.S. Manufacturing Workforce Address at Drake State Community & Technical College in Huntsville. (The MI is the NAM’s 501(c)3 workforce development and education affiliate; you can tune into Lee’s speech here.)
- In the afternoon, the NAM team will tour machining maker and hydraulic equipment supplier Bruderer Machinery’s Huntsville facility as well as the Bessemer, Alabama, tea-making facilities of Milo’s Tea Company.
Florida: To round out the tour, the NAM team on Friday will tour PortMiami, one of the country’s busiest gateways.