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Coville to present knit fabrics and full package capabilities at Texprocess Americas

April 13, 2016
“With the positive industry outlook and reshoring manufacturing trend we are experiencing now, we expect that Texprocess Americas will provide us with excellent opportunities for all aspects of our business,” said Kevin Williams, Coville Vice President.
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Trump and Sanders Have Tapped Into a Dangerous–and Wrong–Anti-Trade Sentiment

April 13, 2016
“Reshoring” has increased the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs from about 11.5 million in 2010 to about 12.5 million today. Trump and Sanders haven’t noted that. But that’s not the end of the story. The U.S. remains far below the peak of 19.5 …
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Automation Brings Manufacturing Back Home

April 12, 2016
“This is what I call the agile supply chain, and it has to be fast, therefore reshoring is vital.” Gary LaPoint, professor of supply chain practice at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, agrees. “Some products are becoming obsolete …
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Trump and Sanders’ common cause

April 12, 2016
And the trend is to bring factories back, not ship more production to China. According to Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, the balance of jobs leaving and entering the U.S. has essentially evened out over the past two years, with most of …
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Reshoring Initiative 2015 Data Report: Reshoring Balanced Offshoring in 2015

April 10, 2016
Reasons for reshoring in 2015: government incentives, localization, proximity to customers, and a skilled workforce. Leading manufacturing problems offshore included lower quality, supply interruption, and high freight costs. Rising offshore wages and …
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How Could the Trans-Pacific Partnership Affect You or Your Business?

April 10, 2016
The high U.S. dollar has already diminished reshoring in the past year. Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, recently told me, “The combination of the high USD and TPP will reduce the rate of reshoring by an estimated 20 – 50%.”
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Reshoring effort returning, keeping jobs in U.S.

April 7, 2016
Mississippi has had successes in reshoring, as well as in two related efforts – foreign direct investment and retaining jobs that would otherwise go overseas, according to Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative. The state ranks …
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Reshoring talk takes back seat, as auto industry continues to expand operations in Mexico

April 7, 2016
With the economy, free trade bills and manufacturing jobs all on the front burner of the presidential race this year, U.S. OEMs continue to expand operations in Mexico. The most recent announcement came from Ford Motor Co. on April 5: It plans to boost its …
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Manufacturing matters most

April 6, 2016
How can we support manufacturing in the U.S.? About 240,000 manufacturing jobs have been brought to the U.S. from offshore in the past six years, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s calculations. That job gain is the result of both reshoring and …
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Further opening needed to reverse decline in trade

April 6, 2016
As to the reasons behind the decline in the role of trade as a growth engine, people believe it’s mainly due to a drop in manufacturing outsourcing from the US, which has led the US to reshoring manufacturing and caused a decline in contracts for other …
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