Nice piece on Marlin, which has a thriving business in manufacturing-process baskets for car companies and health-care outfits. From Popular Mechanics:

Its Baltimore plant is running at capacity, and its biggest challenge is hiring enough skilled workers. The trick was finding the right niche. The company still makes wire baskets, along with other products, but now they are custom-built to hold expensive, delicate components of cars and jet engines that companies like Toyota and General Electric need to send through parts washers.

Last year I wrote about Marlin's Reggie Priester, whose math skills got him a good job at Marlin with no college degree.