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Trade Rules, U.S. Policy Stymie Reshoring Efforts

April 12, 2017
“We’re now going back to China,” he said. The company spent about 12 months preparing to reshore its manufacturing, and would have paid the new workers as much as $75,000 a year, he said. Many U.S. companies hope to move their manufacturing back from …
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THREE PUZZLES OF THE FINANCIAL MARKET´S TUG OF WAR / THE FINANCIAL TIMES COMMENT & ANALYSIS

April 12, 2017
The latter suggests that China has been able to close down a considerable amount of capacity and that reshoring production back to the west may have begun to raise local costs, particularly if an increase in the country’s labour prices are a driver of PPI.
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Bringing a new wave of computer science education to Mississippi

April 11, 2017
These are national priorities, given the aging population of America.” Farmer adds that as companies reshore (bring their operations back to US soil), the opportunities for expansion to Mississippi hinges on one thing: educated talent.
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10 Benefits of Manufacturers Using Injection Molded Parts

April 11, 2017
Contact us to discuss whether your injection molding project may be a candidate for reshoring. When it comes to product cost, GreenLeaf is showing their vendors that supporting American industry and cost effectiveness do not have to be mutually exclusive.
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More than 400 new jobs to be created at EE centres at Cobalt, Sunderland and Darlington

April 11, 2017
EE – the UK’s biggest mobile operator and part of the BT Group – last year completed the first stage of its pledge to reshore all the jobs, with all EE pay monthly customer calls now answered in the UK and Ireland. Now the firm is creating more than …
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A Deeper Dive into Total Cost of Ownership: Part 2

April 10, 2017
Research shows many companies can reshore about 25 percent of what is offshored and improve profitability if they use TCO instead of price to make their decision. That’s the equivalent of 1 million manufacturing jobs. Figure 1 shows an example of the …
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Are ‘Concrete Heads’ Wrecking Your Lean Manufacturing Efforts?

April 10, 2017
plus China’s labor is far less efficient than in the U.S. You may have seen articles penned by Harry Moser under the banner of “onshoring” and his “Reshoring Initiative,” which details the progress being made. Not surprisingly, China remains the reason why …
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Available to order: ERM annual report 2016

April 9, 2017
The print copy of Eurofound’s ERM Annual Report for 2016 Globalisation slowdown? : Recent evidence of offshoring and reshoring in Europe is available to order for free via the EU Bookshop. The 2016 annual report from the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM …
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Manufacturing Companies Educating Trump Team on How to Grow Jobs

April 9, 2017
Increasing jobs in the sector, whether from reshoring, or finding new workers to fill new roles in the sector, is harder than it looks. Last week Ross met with Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret to learn about the strategies that Rockwell has used.
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As Trump blusters on trade, Brussels leads

April 8, 2017
But the White House has since suggested that was an outdated paper, and that its actual proposals will be much more radical, designed to force the reshoring of production to the US. That would be foolish. Nafta has facilitated the creation of highly …
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