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Erick Ajax runs the E.J. Ajax & Sons metal-stamping factory in Fridley, and helped found the Minnesota Manufacturing Coalition. "Everyone I've talked to across the state is quite optimistic as well," he says. "The question is, how long will it last and how sustained the economic recovery will be." (MPR Photo/Jeff Horwich)

Erick Ajax runs the E.J. Ajax & Sons metal-stamping factory in Fridley, and helped found the Minnesota Manufacturing Coalition. "Everyone I've talked to across the state is quite optimistic as well," he says. "The question is, how long will it last and how sustained the economic recovery will be."

(MPR Photo/Jeff Horwich)
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