GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - New insights on Tuesday night on the state of Wisconsin’s manufacturing industry.

The Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity (WCMP) released its fifth report on some of the trends and challenges the industry is currently facing.

One of those challenges is finding, attracting, and keeping qualified employees on the payroll.

Roughly half of those surveyed cited workforce concerns at the top of their list, higher than the cost of materials, health care coverage, even tariffs and trade policy.

“We have a workforce issue here in Wisconsin that’s not going to change for at least another decade with the demographics that we’re seeing, but what we’re seeing is that manufacturers are starting to address that in different ways,” Buckley Brinkman, executive d

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