Washington, D.C. – During today’s Ways and Means Committee Hearing on the United States trade policy agenda, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) asked U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer for clarity on the effects of the Trump Administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs on manufacturers in the First District. Click image or here to watch clip of Rep. Larson’s question and…
HARTFORD - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Monday that Jarvis Airfoil, Inc. of Portland is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” In 1901, Charles L. Jarvis founded the manufacturing company in Hartford. Over the next couple of decades, the company grew and moved to larger facilities located in Portland, Connecticut, and Middletown, Connecticut. Today, Jarvis Airfoil is a fifth-generation,…
Right behind the Connecticut conglomerates that receive billions in U.S. military spending are the small machine shops and local manufacturers benefiting from rising demand for fighter-jet engines, helicopters and submarines. Spread across Connecticut, companies such as Jarvis Airfoil Inc. in Portland play an outsized role bolstering the state’s defense industry. Those businesses — typically privately held and family owned —…
Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum imposed by President Donald Trump may play well with producers in Midwest states that helped lift him to the White House, but manufacturing costs could rise in Connecticut, complicating business for the state’s hundreds of small, sometimes family-owned, machine shops and defense and aerospace contractors. Jason Jarvis, president of Jarvis Airfoil Inc., a Portland…
