SkillsUSA – Closing the Nation’s Skills Gap | Reshoring Blog | Reshoring Initiative

August 23, 2016
A benchmark for closing the nation’s skills gap is the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky June 20-June 24, 2016. It is designed to showcase the best career and technical education students from across the …
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Jury delivers six recommendations in inquest into death of Parkway worker

August 23, 2016
2- Consider whether Construction Regulation 213/91 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act should be amended to require that employees have written procedures for the erection and dismantling of forms, formwork, falsework and reshoring used on a jobsite …
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Industrial Robots and Manufacturing Jobs – A Catalyst for Loss or Growth?

August 22, 2016
otherwise known as reshoring. In light of these changes to the manufacturing industry, organizational success is beginning to depend more on building a workforce that can exploit such technological advances. While the notion that robotic manufacturing as a …
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Industry veterans to deliver large scale US-based cycle manufacturing with HAI Velo

August 22, 2016
Having acquired the assets of Guru Cycles earlier this year, newly formed HAI Velo has now announced the reshoring of its production to Little Rock, Arkansas. “For the last two decades, I have seen bicycle factory a fter bicycle factory close down and …
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Widely watched by Olympics viewers, GE ad focuses on changes in manufacturing

August 19, 2016
Brand polishing? Definitely. At a time when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are criticizing trade deals and promising to return factory jobs to the U.S., GE has touted its “reshoring” efforts, saying it has returned to America jobs making …
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Downsizing at the ‘World’s Factory’

August 18, 2016
Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, told the New Yorker earlier this year that since 2007 the annual increase in the number of companies’ offshoring has dropped from 6 percent to 2.5 percent. Moser said that for the past couple of years …
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Brexit vote fails to put brake on bike company’s new Welsh factory

August 18, 2016
At Frog Bikes, one of the Welsh factory’s newest employees, 26-year-old Neal Brookfield, is hopeful tthe plant and other moves to reshore manufacturing will create more secure work for his generation. “It’s common knowledge that times are tough for …
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Why is this GE ad outperforming almost every other Olympics spot?

August 17, 2016
Brand polishing? Definitely. At a time when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are criticizing trade deals and promising to return factory jobs to the U.S., GE has touted its “reshoring” efforts, saying it has returned to America jobs making …
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AMA Plastics invests in automation, solar panels

August 17, 2016
As required, AMA can “reshore” work for new and existing customers. That may involve moving AMA-created tools back from China and building new tools in the U.S. “We’ve had good things happen,” said Michael Engler, who joined AMA in January 2014.
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Finance microsite added to Talk Business & Politics, joins five other microsites focused on important economic sectors

August 14, 2016
The Manufacturing microsite is a convenient place to keep tabs on local workforce development, global trade policies, state tax rules, reshoring, and other manufacturing related issues. The microsite is sponsored by Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions.
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