New Chair of the UMA Board of Directors

By Clint Morris, Senior Vice President of Marketing, LifeTime Products

My name is Clint Morris. My wife Stephanie and I are proud residents of Layton and parents of three twenty-somethings currently attending both Weber State and USU. I work as the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Lifetime Products, a consumer goods manufacturer in Clearfield. We specialize in producing family-friendly products that bring people together, like basketball hoops, kayaks, coolers, tables and chairs, playsets, and storage sheds. I have been with Lifetime for nearly three decades. I am also in my first term as a member of the Layton City Council. When I’m not involved with these things, you can find me on my road bike cycling through Davis County.

Lifetime Products has been a member of the UMA for more than a decade and I have been a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board, now as chair, for almost seven years. Lifetime has benefitted from membership in the UMA primarily for government relations and safety trainings. Our relationship was with the UMA was key as we started to work on federal legislation a few years back in the area of Made in the USA product labeling. We also benefitted, along with many of you, from the tireless efforts a couple of years ago made to exempt manufacturing fracturing inputs for all manufacturers in Utah.

As the new Chairman of the Executive Board, I am looking forward to continuing the mission of highlighting and advocating manufacturing’s importance in the State of Utah. It is difficult to manufacture in the United States and even harder here in Utah, but the commitment of Utah manufacturers and attendant economic multiplier in the community creates jobs, high-paying jobs.

This story needs to continue to be told at every level of government in the state. Another area that I would like to see progress is in the area of workforce development. We need to be training the young workforce in the jobs of today. Partnerships with high schools, tech and community colleges, and universities in educating and training for the jobs of today need more attention and funding. Kids need to know that manufacturing is high-paying, exciting, and challenging. And finally, to the small manufacturer, we need you! Please take advantage of all the UMA has to offer. As an organization, we are here for you, as we collectively move forward.

Don’t hesitate to participate, ask questions, and find ways to contribute.

You inspire me. I love Utah and our entrepreneurial spirit. As an organization of like-minded manufacturers,it’s our opportunity to help shape Utah’s future, as we say at Lifetime, by “making stuff”...

Clint Morris, Senior Vice President of Marketing, LifeTime Products