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Why some factory jobs come back

October 6, 2016
Armstrong, based in Manor Township, did not reshore all production. It uses the Lancaster facility to manufacture products for the U.S. Factories in other countries serve those markets. According to Maier, this “gives great pride to workers in those …
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Midsized manufacturers drive sector’s growth, but trade deficit affects all

October 5, 2016
These factors, as noted, can create a trade deficit for the U.S. And those issues concern Harry Moser, founder of the Illinois-based Reshoring Initiative. He sees progress in the effort to bring U.S. manufacturing jobs home, but also much room to improve.
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Manufacturing Day 2016 Celebrates New Dawn for Manufacturing Careers in America

October 5, 2016
“A strong skilled workforce is key to reshoring and manufacturing growth”, says Harry Moser, founder/president of the Reshoring Initiative. “Development of a skilled workforce begins with motivating a higher quantity and quality of recruits. By …
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Free trade helps push the plastics industry forward

October 5, 2016
There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that global companies are reshoring work to North America. But the SPI report notes that “higher wages in China are cutting into the country’s competitive advantage, but that has not changed the game so far.
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Can Robotics Spark A Renaissance In American Manufacturing?

October 4, 2016
Adidas provides a model for the U.S., where human-robot collaboration has the potential to reshore manufacturing. Even if manufacturers decided to open robotic plants in foreign countries, the U.S. could still remain the global center of robotics innovation.
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New technology that is impacting manufacturers

October 3, 2016
From Henry Ford’s assembly line to 3D printing, innovative processes and equipment have enabled companies to take charge of their futures by allowing for large-scale production; improving consistency and quality; making possible the reshoring of …
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2 critical events furniture manufacturers need to know about

October 3, 2016
According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s annual “Made in America, Again” report, in 2015 17% of respondents said they were actively reshoring – more than twice the number actively reshoring in 2012. Manufacturers are now almost three times more …
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Experts divided on logistics impact of disruptive technologies

October 3, 2016
Experts are divided on the extent to which disruptive manufacturing technologies and processes will impact logistics and freight transport flows, despite recent indications that it will drive some nearshoring and reshoring in Europe and other key consumer …
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Suscom sits pretty on £750k investment into UK plastics production

October 3, 2016
The decision to reshore its manufacturing back to the UK from China, says Suscom, has allowed the company to produce its chair bases “to a higher quality level, to its own improved design, more profitably and with greater control over stock and …
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A Year in Distribution: America II Looks Back and Ahead

October 2, 2016
However, another interesting contributory factor is the fact that so many of our OEM customers are ‘reshoring’ back into the domestic Americas EMS market. Based on direct customer discussions we’ve had in the third quarter of 2016 (planning for 2017 …
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