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No man no manufacture

December 4, 2016
We don’t have to imagine what this future will look like; it’s already happening. “Reshoring” companies are fleeing higher wages in the oft-vilified China and moving their factories to America — and staffing them with robots. While American …
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CNBC Transcript: United Technologies Chairman & CEO Greg Hayes on CNBC’s “Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer” Today

December 4, 2016
You felt that that was a good thing, but there was $60 million costs that first year. It’s not as easy to reshore. GREG HAYES: Well, look, it– any time you do– undertake a major restructuring– closing a plant— JIM CRAMER: Right. GREG HAYES …
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A Manufacturing Renaissance: How 3D Printing Can Bring Back Local

December 4, 2016
Similarly, Take Manufacturing Back, sponsored by Canada’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers, is promoting 3D printing as a way of attracting aggressive reshoring while encouraging manufacturers to build supply chains using mostly Canadian companies.
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Trump In Action

December 4, 2016
and other programs that support “Buy American” and reshoring initiatives in the private sector. We can only hope that this symbolic action with Carrier that makes manufacturing a priority is the first step in a coherent manufacturing policy that keeps U.S …
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Preparing bond positions for a post-Trump era

December 4, 2016
By stealing growth via trade barriers, for example, he is trying to undertake reshoring, or import substitution, to the benefit of US citizens. Understandably, emerging market currencies and equities have sold off. I am not convinced the world will grow …
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Reasons Why The US Will Dominate The World Economy For The Foreseeable Future

December 4, 2016
They need to be co-located. Right now, the only place where that happens is North America. We have already seen a fairly substantial reshoring process from China to North America since 2008—that is about four million jobs. Expect that to double down …
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Preparing for Growth in U.S. Manufacturing

December 4, 2016
We see this trend continuing as we move forward into the future of U.S. manufacturing. As companies look to reshore some of their manufacturing facilities in the U.S., they will be faced with keeping production costs low and finding adequate staff to meet …
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They Took Our Jobs! Is Globalization Really to Blame for Job Losses?

December 3, 2016
In recent years jobs have come back to the U.S. though, so called “reshoring” has been a result not just of a desire by firms to be closer to their markets, to shorten supply chains, or to regain greater quality control but even more it has been a …
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What A Trump Presidency Might Mean For IBM Rochester

December 3, 2016
And anyway, Minnesota voted for Clinton. Besides, there are thorny logistical problems with the idea of reshoring. With only about 2,500 workers left in Rochester, IBM did the practical thing this spring, and decided to sell two-thirds of the two-million …
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Harlingen EDC votes to fund study on preparedness

December 3, 2016
We need to be somewhere in the middle,” he said. Lucio said manufacturing jobs will be there for the taking as many companies begin “reshoring” plants from Asia back to North America due to financial advantages here. But, he said, for the Valley to …
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