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Donald Trump plans to force Apple to build its ‘damn computers’ in America

January 18, 2016
The controversial business tycoon-turned-politician said he will push the tech giant to “reshore” its production lines, moving them from China back to the good old US of A. “We’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country …
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Can Reshoring and Newshoring Revive American Manufacturing?

January 18, 2016
In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama noted the creation of nearly 900,000 manufacturing jobs in the last six years. But America can do better. How? By two strategies that many are likely unaware of: Reshoring and Newshoring.
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Advocate Says Reshoring’s Down, But Not Out

January 17, 2016
Moser and the Reshoring Initiative do not entirely disagree with A.T. Kearny’s findings. “Kearney claims the number of reshoring cases per year is off 70 percent from 2013 to 2015 projected,” Moser said. “Our database shows a smaller 40 percent …
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Harry Moser

January 17, 2016
Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative, grew up experiencing the glory of U.S. manufacturing. With more than 45 years of manufacturing experience (most recently 25 years as president, chairman and then chairman emeritus of GF AgieCharmilles …
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Gov. Tom Wolf fields budget questions at tour of Web.com in Drums

January 14, 2016
Wolf’s visit came over a week after Web.com announced it will bring more than 70 jobs to the region as part of a major reshoring and expansion. The move will create 74 new jobs at the company’s Drums location, bringing the total number of workers at …
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Center for Innovation and Development

January 12, 2016
It’s called “onshoring.” And some believe it is an idea whose time has come. Local business and community leaders created the Center for Innovation and Development at the Rappahannock Community College Kilmarnock Center, 447 North Main Street …
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A.T. Kearney’s 2015 Reshoring Index finds that reshoring is failing to keep up with off-shoring

January 4, 2016
The second annual A.T. Kearney U.S. Reshoring Index demonstrates that actual reshoring of manufacturing operations to the United States has once again failed to keep pace with offshoring. Since its release on December 21, several mischaracterizations of …
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Kearney reshoring index gets a lot wrong, says Reshoring Initiative

December 30, 2015
Almost immediately after my blog on A.T. Kearney’s latest reshoring study hit the in boxes of PlasticsToday readers, I heard from Harry Moser—manufacturing’s champion of reshoring—with a rebuttal of the Kearney study. I actually had a premonition that …
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Lessons in reshoring: The turnaround at GE’s Appliance Park – Insider Louisville

December 29, 2015
Lessons in reshoring: The turnaround at GE’s Appliance Park  Insider Louisville

After decades of moving jobs to low-wage countries, American manufacturers like GE are moving some jobs back to the U.S..

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Long Supply Chains Created Consumer Disappointment This Holiday Season

December 27, 2015
“It’s still tough to make high-volume consumer electronics, such as Apple products, because not enough of the components are made here,” said Harry Moser, Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative and former president of machine tool maker GF …
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