Lubbock’s manufacturing industry currently employs 5,500 people. Our affordable land, low business costs, and easy access to large markets in Texas and the Southwest makes us a top choice for manufacturers.

Our focus is on light manufacturing – businesses that transform raw materials into finished goods. Food processing and packaging, medical device and bioscience product manufacturing, and clean energy equipment producers (among many others) find Lubbock particularly appealing due to the strong existing base of business activity in these fields. 

Additional resources Lubbock uniquely brings 'to the table' include:

• International Center for Food Industry Excellence creates and evaluates technologies that improve the safety, nutritional quality, consumer acceptance, and production characteristics of food available to U.S. consumers. The High Plains of West Texas is the heart of the U.S. cattle industry and a major producer of peanuts, grains, wine grapes, peppers, beans, and onions. The food produced in this region, are an integral part of the U.S. food supply. Technologies and techniques developed by the Center are transferable nationwide.

• Texas Tech University is the permanent home of the National Institute of Engineering Ethics.

• The Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center offers two-year degrees in Business Administration and CIS, Industrial Technology, Professional Technologies, and many varieties therein. They can also develop specialized programs in coordination with local industry to customize training needs.

• The South Plains College's Lubbock Campus is a technical branch of South Plains College of Levelland. The college offers 33 technical Certificate and Associate Degree programs that are linked to the area's economic development and manpower needs. The campus also maintains a viable Continuing Education program built around a variety of vocational courses.