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Lancashire moulder grows domestic production with new Sumitomo Demag kit

March 12, 2017
MGS has reported a steep rise in reshoring in recent years, driven by accessibility to a wider stockholding, better product quality and quicker turnaround, as well as lower transport costs. The company’s success is reflected in their strong trading results.
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Interview with VDMA’s Elgar Straub

March 12, 2017
In other words, so-called ‘reshoring’ to high wage countries where it hasn’t been practical to manufacture commodities for many years? ES: Yes, it’s an entirely new type of manufacturing structure that’s emerging, involving the digital …
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Automation: DC Residents Now Share Sidewalks with Food Delivery Robots

March 11, 2017
Reshoring has been happening already anyway, because US labor costs don’t matter that much when machines are doing most of the work. So we’ll see how Trump’s jobs plan goes. For the long term though, the future is automated, and the political class …
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What is the Key to Plastic Injection Molding Design

March 10, 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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Trump’s attack dog on trade

March 10, 2017
and raising eyebrows when he said the administration was looking to unwind and reshore the intricate global supply chain. Concern about Navarro has reportedly split Trump’s trade advisors, according to a recent report in the Financial Times, with a …
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Can China Lead The World Economy?

March 9, 2017
Think about it. Why can’t Apple build its own robot-run factories? Why can’t other companies? As robot capabilities increase, the trend toward reshoring will accelerate. Labor everywhere in the world will lose its price-competitive edge. All the power will …
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Trump’s Plan to Bring Back Manufacturing Isn’t Crazy

March 8, 2017
Also, tariffs make it harder to import the materials that are needed in the manufacturing process. A better idea would be to help companies with reshoring. Lots of companies shipped production to China and other countries, lured by the promise of low wages …
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UK Automotive unites at Automechanika Birmingham to target more British parts for British cars

March 8, 2017
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) will bring the UK automotive industry together at a special event in Birmingham this summer as part of efforts to boost supply chain reshoring and make British cars more British. UK vehicle …
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Border Tax? Border Wall? How to Navigate the New Reality of US-Mexico Trade

March 7, 2017
GD: Most of the Mexican manufacturing small-and-medium-sized enterprises are scared of becoming “jobless” overnight due to a sudden change in any import tariffs that will force most of the major OEMs that target the U.S. market to reshore production …
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Opinion: How the U.S. could bring back up to half the manufacturing jobs moved overseas

March 7, 2017
These costs are readily quantified using the Reshoring Initiative’s free online TCO Estimator. Since our trade deficit represents four million manufacturing jobs, the returnable 25% is equal to 1 million manufacturing jobs.
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