O’Connor: Skilled workforce needed

December 18, 2017
Last week, he spoke at the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s annual meeting about the need to bring back trades training in schools, build apprentice programs for returning veterans and support the “reshoring of American companies.” Oklahoma has …
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Markets for PE, PP look beyond 2017 for growth and new capacity

December 18, 2017
“There’s still anecdotal evidence of companies reshoring their plastics processing back to North America, and there has also been an uptick in foreign plastics processors interested in starting up resin processing in the U.S. for the first time because …
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Europeans Getting Into a Lather About Proposed U.S. Tax Changes

December 16, 2017
President Trump’s intention is to encourage reshoring and the return of American jobs perceived to have been lost in the process of globalization. But the fear is the proposals would seriously hamper trade and investment — not just between the U.S. and …
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Iowa companies bringing jobs back to U.S.

December 15, 2017
The Reshoring Initiative’s 2016 Data Report released May 15 indicates 77,000 jobs were brought back to the United States, with just 50,000 leaving. “In comparison to 2000-2003, when the United States lost, net, about 220,000 manufacturing jobs per year …
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Iowa companies bringing jobs back to U.S. – The Gazette

December 15, 2017
Iowa companies bringing jobs back to U.S.  The Gazette

As energy and labor costs in China and other countries continue to grow and lead times become more of an issue in a just-in-time global economy, more …

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Robots Uncaged: How Smart Machines Will Change Business

December 13, 2017
Reshoring could enable greater responsiveness to market demand and greater innovation. But it would naturally require companies to reconfigure supply chains. CIOs and other IT leaders will be tapped to help evaluate robotics technology, to upgrade and …
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Stop The New Crimson Tide – Forbes Now

December 13, 2017
Stop The New Crimson Tide  Forbes Now

The decline of unions has collided with this surprising new growth as the global economy brings manufacturing back to America. In this period of transition, …

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Stop The New Crimson Tide

December 13, 2017
The Reshoring Initiative estimates that between 2009 and 2016 more than 250,000 jobs were created or brought to the U.S. from other countries. That is only a fraction of the 6 million jobs lost between 2000 and 2009, yet the trend is wonderful, and the …
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COBOTS – A CATALYST FOR RESHORING … new White Paper published

December 11, 2017
The longstanding industrial practice of outsourcing manufacturing operations to low-cost parts of the world to keep manufacturing costs down has recently taken a dramatic turn. With rapidly rising labour costs in countries such a China, the financial …
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The Reshoring Initiative and Intellilink Seek Partner for BOP Reshoring Project

December 10, 2017
This press release is submitted and shown here in its original form, unedited by Furniture Today. Kildeer, IL., December 11, 2017 — The Reshoring Initiative and Intellilink are seeking a company to pa…
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