Your business is about to get 160 new neighbors.

Sofidel is finishing its $200 million expansion of the Duluth paper mill this year. 160 new jobs, triple the old workforce, in a 600,000-square-foot plant with an automated warehouse. The state backed it with $5 million in incentives.

Meanwhile on the Range, Mesabi Metallics is hiring 200 operators for a new mine built around advanced automation and digital controls. The new industrial jobs arriving in the Northland come with software running the floor.

The question for your shop: what do you sell to, hire from, or supply into a region where the big plants are new and automated? The jobs multiplier is real, but the supply chain it creates looks different. Watch who wins the contracts.