NCTO Looks to Ramp up Made in USA Promotion With New Textiles Website

March 15, 2018
“President Trump has made the reshoring of manufacturing a priority, giving the American textile sector its first real opportunity in a generation to level the playing field against unfair trade practices from abroad. Growing e-commerce is reconfiguring …
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Will China’s ‘winds of change’ alter U.S. manufacturing sector?

March 13, 2018
“We don’t see anything in the near term that would affect that in any way.” With respect to changes in China affecting reshoring, Bonifacio noted that he is seeing some of that. “Yes, there is an uptick in U.S. manufacturing, and it is stron
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Reshoring, Robotics Rising Together, Reports OECD – Robotics Business Review

March 12, 2018
Reshoring, Robotics Rising Together, Reports OECD  Robotics Business Review

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, last week released a paper that found that as automation is spreading, the use of …

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US protectionism is a bad idea – Natixis

March 11, 2018
“However, the idea may be that protectionism will lead to reshoring to the United States in the long term. But first, the costs of reshoring are high, for the United States and overall; second, there would have to be an available labour force in the …
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Sleeman spending $7M to scale up Guelph, Ont. brewing operation, reshore production

March 11, 2018
GUELPH, Ont.—Canada’s third-largest beer maker is investing approximately $7 million to modernize its brewery west of Toronto and bring some of its production currently outsourced south of the border back to Canadian soil. The capital spending plan …
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AccuLink Leverages Dye-Sublimation Printing for Business Growth

March 7, 2018
She explains how the company is moving the analog-to-digital transformation forward in textiles, and what she expects to see in the future, including reshoring textile production in North America and Europe.
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Reboot the Democratic Party – The Week Magazine

March 6, 2018
Reboot the Democratic Party  The Week Magazine

The Democratic Party is eagerly eyeing some big pickups in the midterm elections. However, the party establishment has hit two speed bumps: first, ideological …

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China Regains Top Spot as World’s Most Attractive Manufacturing Market

March 4, 2018
The recent announcements from Toyota/Mazda and Samsung to make additional investments in new plants in the U.S. are fueling hopes of reshoring. Following a similar announcement made by rival LG, Samsung recently made public its plan to invest $300 million …
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Panel: Local activism is important in finding workers

March 1, 2018
But unemployment is just 4 percent. “My concern is how are we going to do that,” she said about reshoring. “I have plastics customers that are shutting molding machines down because they can’t even find temporary labor.” Another panel member, Rick Hecker …
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2018 State of the Industry

February 27, 2018
(In terms of value, the market grew in the low single-digit range in 2017.) Market developments cited by respondents for 2017 and 2018: • More equipment companies are reshoring their operations from overseas back to the United States. • The U.S …
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