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Join AKMA.

Strengthen Alaska Manufacturing.

AKMA brings together the full manufacturing ecosystem, the businesses making and designing products, and the suppliers, service providers, nonprofits, institutions, and partners who help them move.


Manufacturing in Alaska comes with real constraints: distance, limited staffing, high freight costs, and complex logistics. Our role isn’t to erase those realities. It’s to make them navigable, together.

If you make it, design it, support it, or enable it, you belong here.

This is a membership for people doing real work, not just people selling stuff.

  • ​Makers + manufacturers producing physical goods in Alaska

  • Design-led businesses based in Alaska with production elsewhere

  • Suppliers, service providers, nonprofits, institutions, and partners strengthening Alaska manufacturing

Membership isn’t a perk list.
It’s a support system.

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Get Visible

Members are discoverable in the AKMA directory, so buyers, partners, and collaborators know who’s doing what, and who to call.

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Get Connected

We connect members across the ecosystem: makers ↔ suppliers, rural ↔ urban, startups ↔ established manufacturers, nonprofits ↔ businesses.

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Get Unstuck

Workshops, mixers, and roundtables built around Alaska constraints, so members can solve problems and keep momentum.

What you get with membership

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Visibility

  • Directory listing to be found by the right people

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  • Opportunities to be featured and shared

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  • Representation and advocacy for manufacturing in Alaska

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Connection

  • Invitations to mixers, meetups, and member conversations

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  • Warm introductions when there’s a clear fit​

Support

  • Trainings + roundtables focused on real constraints (freight, staffing, systems, sales channels)

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  • Resources that help members execute, not just plan

Choose the tier that fits your role in the ecosystem

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ALASKAN-MADE

Businesses that physically make products in Alaska. This includes manufacturing, processing, fabrication, assembly, or agriculture and mariculture that happens in-state and results in a finished product ready for sale.

Join as Alaskan-Made
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ALASKAN-POWERED

Organizations, suppliers, service providers, nonprofits, institutions, and individuals that support or enable Alaska manufacturing. This tier is for those who strengthen the ecosystem without selling a consumer product.

Join as Alaskan-Powered
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ALASKAN-DESIGNED

Businesses that design products in Alaska but manufacture them elsewhere. This tier recognizes Alaska-based creative, engineering, and product development work.

Join as Alaskan-Designed
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ALASKAN-ALLY

Organizations and businesses based outside of Alaska that support, serve, or collaborate with Alaska manufacturers. This tier is for partners who want to be visible in the AKMA directory and connected to Alaska’s manufacturing ecosystem, without being Alaska-based.

Join as Alaskan-Ally

Not sure where you fit? Use this.

  • You make it in Alaska → Alaskan-Made

  • You design it in Alaska → Alaskan-Designed

  • You support the people who make it → Alaskan-Powered

  • You’re outside Alaska but collaborate/support → Alaskan-Ally

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