Subscribe

Why Donald Trump Is Wrong About Manufacturing Jobs and China

March 13, 2016
Meanwhile, offshoring has slowed considerably. Harry Moser, the president of the Reshoring Initiative, told me that, since 2007, the annual increase in the number of companies offshoring has dropped from six per cent to two and a half per cent …
Read the full article →

Missing out on millions: manufacturing plants badly need workers

March 13, 2016
Despite what political candidates say in debates— the U.S. has been bringing American factories back to U.S. soil for the past four years—a system called “reshoring.” “The middle class over in China and India and Southeast Asia is starting to …
Read the full article →

Can Boathouse Sports Show Manufacturers How to Bring Jobs Back to the U.S.?

March 13, 2016
What are other companies missing? An article in Apparel last month suggested that in addition to “speed to market,” Boathouse Sports succeeds at reshoring largely because it’s playing in a niche market. Today Boathouse serves school teams, individuals and …
Read the full article →

Why Donald Trump Is Wrong About Manufacturing Jobs and China – The New Yorker

March 13, 2016
Why Donald Trump Is Wrong About Manufacturing Jobs and China  The New Yorker

Jeffrey Rothfeder on how the balance of trade with China is tipping in favor of the U.S..

Read the full article →

Heroes of American Manufacturing: Bollman Hat Company

March 10, 2016
By working with its local MEP center, MANTEC, the company has improved its operations and is now partnering with MANTEC and GENEDGE (the Virginia MEP center) on supply chain optimization and reshoring opportunities. NIST’s Manufacturing Extension …
Read the full article →

Wilmington tech company seeks to reverse outsourcing trend

March 9, 2016
A recent survey by Boston Consulting Group found that’s also the case for many manufacturers, with 17 percent now “actively reshoring” their operations back to the U.S., up from 13 percent in 2013. Buy Photo Alpha Technologies CEO Harry Virk speaks …
Read the full article →

Does Mexico Beat the U.S. for Reshoring?

March 9, 2016
March 10, 2016—One recent study says U.S. manufacturers now prefer Mexico to the United States when it comes to reshoring—the decision to move production from Asia back to North America. It said Mexico combines the relatively lower costs of China with …
Read the full article →

Does Reshoring Fashion Manufacturing Make Sense? | Intelligence | BoF – The Business of Fashion

March 8, 2016
Does Reshoring Fashion Manufacturing Make Sense? | Intelligence | BoF  The Business of Fashion

LONDON, United Kingdom — In the US and UK, fashion manufacturing is no longer the industry it once was. In 1990, the US apparel sector employed 939,000 …

Read the full article →

Taiwanese OEMs Open Bicycle Factories in Europe

March 7, 2016
The company announced this at the Taipei Cycle Show last week. It’s a major step forward in the ‘bringing production back to Europe’ initiatives and the reshoring project of the European bicycle industry. “We are joining Bike Valley Portugal as …
Read the full article →

Toshiba Shifts Gears from Japan to Texas

March 6, 2016
What are the keys to successfully reshoring? As plant manager Roberto Heredia walked across the production floor, he pointed out the robots from Epson and Nachi, and the production line layout, before ultimately turning to the people. In four years …
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →