Analysis of fabricated metal products market published by leading research firm

September 15, 2017
The global market for metal fabrication is fueled by continued investments in electric furnace and metals processing, the growing aluminum consumption, the reshoring of manufacturing practices in the automotive industry, recovery in non-residential …
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How Electroloom’s clothes-printing revolution died

September 13, 2017
The move by shoemakers like Adidas and Nike to “reshore” their production to the West, facilitated by robotic factories, is clearly where the world is going. Unfortunately, Rowley and, by this point, his team were trying to serve a wide variety of masters.
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Public to Help Identify Needed National Policy Changes

September 13, 2017
Plante Moran and the Reshoring Initiative will jointly launch the pivotal U.S. Manufacturing Reshoring Study. Both organizations encourage businesses to participate in the study’s survey. Responses wi…
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Digitisation – The next apparel sourcing hotspot?

September 13, 2017
Every third European sourcing executive expects that the trend of reshoring (bringing production back to the home market) will become even stronger due to automation; among US American CPOs, this is believed by even more respondents – about 50% of them.
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Cheap labour versus robots, who will sew the clothes of the future?

September 10, 2017
I think we are likely to see manufacturing gradually coming back to Europe.” This phenomenon is known as reshoring, but it is not only driven by technology. The return of manufacturing is also driven by the wage increases in China and ever-faster changes …
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Education to be focus for FABTECH 2017

September 7, 2017
There are also expanded management and workforce development tracks, which cover in-demand executive and upper management concerns, such as tackling the manufacturing skills gap, economic outlook, reshoring and new leadership strategies. “Education is …
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Revitalizing The Rust Belt

September 7, 2017
This has led to a reshoring epidemic, where companies, especially small to medium-sized organizations, have been able to use a new breed of advanced collaborative robots to bring manufacturing home and produce items at a lower costs base than if they were …
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AlphaLab Gear finds a new way to give startups a boost with Manufacturing Module

September 6, 2017
The module comes during an upswing in domestic manufacturing. A report by the Reshoring Initiative showed that, between 2010 and 2016, more manufacturing jobs returned to the U.S. as opposed to being outsourced to other countries like China. The first …
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HP Joins the Customized Footwear Revolution, Powering FitStation with 3D Scanning and 3D Printing

September 6, 2017
Reshoring of product. Lends itself to local production. Local for local. Producing locally for local consumption. Platform facilitates democratization of design. Once you’re targeting design for one person and their needs, designers can work at the …
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Manufacturing turnaround a signal of brighter future for places like Pittsburgh

September 5, 2017
According to the Reshoring Initiative 2016 Data Report, reshoring and foreign direct investment by companies that have returned U.S. production or sourcing from offshore brought 77,000 new jobs last year; since 2010, 338,000 jobs have been brought back to …
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