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The Reshoring Initiative launches National Reshoring Award

June 4, 2017
“In 2016 about 27,000 more manufacturing jobs were brought back to the U.S. than were offshored,” said Harry Moser, founder and president of The Reshoring Initiative. “We anticipate that this award will motivate more companies to reevaluate their …
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A Tight Fit: Bringing hatmaking back to U.S. easier said than done

June 2, 2017
according to the Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit set up to bring factory jobs back to the United States. Yet the U.S. garment industry’s production gains also show why President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to return manufacturing jobs to the U.S …
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Franzi Charen: Employee ownership could be Asheville’s key to prosperity

June 2, 2017
By reshoring production and recreating a maker-based economy that puts ownership in the hands of the people whose livelihoods depend on these jobs, we can rebuild a truly resilient, thriving economy in all of WNC. Employee ownership and the future of small …
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Industrial Market Strong Despite a Break From Record Activity

June 1, 2017
With reshoring on the rise in part due to anticipated government policies, industrial real estate with a manufacturing component will likely see increased demand for the foreseeable future. Tightening markets and new, higher-quality Class A space drove up …
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Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Institute

May 31, 2017
The U.S. must invest in automation in order to retain and reshore jobs and innovate. Other countries (especially China) are investing heavily in automation, so we either automate or we lose more to offshore automation than we would to domestic automation.
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Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Initiative – woodworkingnetwork.com

May 31, 2017
Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Initiative  woodworkingnetwork.com

Will U.S. manufacturing be able to create jobs, particularly in view of increased automation displacing workers? The Reshoring Initiative has recognized the …

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Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Initiative

May 30, 2017
Will U.S. manufacturing be able to create jobs, particularly in view of increased automation displacing workers? The Reshoring Initiative has recognized the automation trend and that returning jobs will be, on average, higher skilled and fewer than when …
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Minnesota manufacturers are confident about growing economy

May 29, 2017
The “reshoring” phenomenon of contracting with other U.S. companies instead of overseas manufacturers was cited by 34 percent of those surveyed as a reason for more business. Regardless of the reason, the attitude change among producers since 2016 …
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The Amazon Effect and the Global Supply Chain

May 29, 2017
This may even give rise to a preference for local sourcing fueling the reshoring trend, or at least sourcing from local storage locations where inventory is held for rapid response. But that’s not all…if sources are located in foreign countries like …
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Opinion: How the U.S. could bring back up to half the manufacturing jobs that moved overseas – MarketWatch

May 28, 2017
Opinion: How the U.S. could bring back up to half the manufacturing jobs that moved overseas  MarketWatch

OUTSIDE THE BOX By Harry Moser, Sandy Montalbano Many companies that offshored manufacturing didn’t really do the math Which jobs make sense to bring back from China? STR/AFP/Getty Images For decades, U.S. companies have been chasing cheap labor offshore and then importing products to sell in the U.S. market. Now, Trumponomics, a broader focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO quantifies all relevant costs, risks and strategic factors) and advanced manufacturing together have the potential to end the manufacturing stagnation of the past 30 years and create millions of manufacturing jobs in th…

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