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Robots, Not the Chinese, Are Taking American Factory Jobs

November 6, 2016
In the last decade, America has been losing an average of 220,000 net jobs per year to other countries, according to non-profit group Reshoring Initiative, which lobbies for manufacturers to return jobs to the United States. Now, it says the number of jobs …
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How Cloud ERP Scalability Helps Manufacturers Reverse Offshoring

November 6, 2016
Reshoring business requires manufacturers to look at their technology, quality, reliability, and collaborative supply-chain relationships. One company points to its manufacturing cloud ERP software as key to this competitive strategy. Putting a Scalable …
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America Needs to Use More Energy, Not Less

November 6, 2016
However, I believe, most Americans don’t want to see more of our jobs disappear. Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, which aims to bring manufacturing back home, is optimis…
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A crack in the door for a trade deal

November 6, 2016
For a brief period, the development of US shale gas reserves provided some respite from offshoring of manufacturing to low-wage countries but, in the past couple of years, manufacturing job gains through reshoring have been at least matched by job losses …
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US Election: Brexit could look like a ‘ripple in a tea cup’

November 6, 2016
NYC may prove increasingly less welcoming to both non-US banks seeking to re-locate in the wake of Brexit as well as US banks reshoring international activities. The city could lose financial players should the domestic environment turn against non-US …
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Lost U.S. Factory Jobs? Robots Are To Blame

November 5, 2016
(Competitiveness is measured by such factors as costs, productivity and the protection of intellectual property.) The Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit that lobbies manufacturers to return jobs to the United States, says America was losing an average of …
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Interview: Ximo Puig, president of the Autonomous Community of Valencia, Spain

November 3, 2016
All of Inditex’s footwear is distributed worldwide from Elche, in Alicante province. And textiles have experienced some degree of reshoring in recent years after a long period of offshoring. This reverse trend is even more noticeable with footwear …
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USA – HTS plans to add 200 jobs at $21 million lab, plant in Knoxville

November 2, 2016
“By significantly reducing the cycle time of production, sometimes by 50 percent or more, we are seeing companies reshore production to the U.S. and expand existing U.S. production.” Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said Tennessee’s advanced manufacturing sector …
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Apple, Donald Trump, and why it’s hard to finger blame for America’s manufacturing decline

November 2, 2016
According to the US Government’s Reshoring Initiative, 100,000 manufacturing jobs have returned to the US from overseas over the past five years – 60 per cent of these from China. Add in plants in the US opened by foreign investors, and the number of …
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Newest Advancements for Assembly Manufacturing Showcased on Expanded Show Floor at 4th Annual The ASSEMBLY Show

November 2, 2016
Presentations were given by LACO Technologies, Henkel, RedViking, Panduit, Nordson EFD, FESTO, Desoutter, Destaco, Balluff, Reshoring Institute, Rexroth Bosch Group, and FlexCraft. Topics included air leak testing methods, merging digital and physical …
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