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In the war on globalisation, head for the safety of small-cap stocks

February 6, 2017
Companies can localise production and protect themselves to a degree (reshoring). But it won’t be as cheap and easy as manufacturing everything in Vietnam or Slovenia and shipping it from there. Shareholders are beginning to think like long-term owners …
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Why Donald Trump Can’t Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs

February 5, 2017
Reshoring is a trend that has been going on for years. In it’s 2015 article “Reshoring Has Slowed But Hasn’t Stopped” Forbes described reshoring as: “…the repatriation of factory jobs that previously had been outsourced to China.” “The shifting economics …
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Balfour Beatty Uses Top-Down Method to Drive Dallas High-Rise Schedule

February 5, 2017
Once the above-ground third floor was cast and stressed and the reshoring removed, crews began to excavate the levels below, forming at level B3 and ultimately placing slab-on-grade at B4. Crews built a total of 43 columns of varying sizes, mostly 30 in.
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Technavio Reveals Cost Saving Opportunities for the Inbound Support Market

February 5, 2017
“The industry is currently witnessing the emergence of reshoring and nearshoring options that serve as service differentiator by avoiding the language and cultural barriers from the offshoring model,” said lead Technavio procurement expert Angad …
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Experts say U.S. manufacturers should prepare for tariffs

February 5, 2017
National Association of Manufacturers chief economist Chad Moutray posed this question: If there is reshoring because of changing tariffs, what will the effect be on already strained manufacturing labor pools? “Every manufacturer I talk to talks about …
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Walmart commits $250 billion to American-made goods – BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)

February 5, 2017
Walmart commits $250 billion to American-made goods  BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)

In 2013, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, made a bold commitment to purchase an additional $250 billion in products supporting American jobs over 10 …

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NAFTA’s Complicated Legacy

February 4, 2017
Prospects for restoring employment by reshoring production may therefore be modest. There are also an estimated 5 million American jobs dependent on trade with Mexico, so it has not been a one-way flow. And Mexican consumption of American goods has …
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Trends to Look for in the Metal Fabrication Industry

February 4, 2017
One continuing trend to look for in the metal fabrication industry is reshoring, also known as manufacturing regionalization. Many businesses are now moving from an ‘offshore’ model to a ‘nearshore or onshore’ model, where manufacturing services …
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Hot Topics in Custom Plastic Injection Molding

February 3, 2017
One economic dynamic that makes reshoring of American manufacturing a logical development is that China and other developing nations are not the low-cost proposition that they once were. In coastal production areas like Shenzhen and Tianjin, China …
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MITON’S DAVID JANE: NEW THEME TUNES FOR THE MITON MULTI-ASSET TEAM

February 2, 2017
This area has not been as strong as it might have been as capital investment has lagged, but the twin drivers of increased economic demand and reshoring may now drive greater growth in this area. US companies, under pressure from the new administration to …
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