Reshoring Initiative 2014 report highlights positive job trends

April 27, 2015
The Reshoring Initiative, an organization committed to helping manufacturers recognize the profit potential of utilizing local sourcing and production, has published its annual data report on reshoring trends, and the news is good. More than 60,000 …
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Field of Seams, LLC is Building U.S.-Based Apparel Manufacturing Capacity … – PR Web (press release)

April 24, 2015

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 24, 2015 FIELD OF SEAMS, LLC, announces a new initiative to build U.S.-based apparel manufacturing capacity. The company is taking orders now for apparel production beginning in 2016. This initiative is the first step in a larger plan to offer full value chain re-shoring, designed […]

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Retaining production in the UK is more significant than reshoring – BQ Live

April 23, 2015

Experts from the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult have identified that the recent bull-run in manufacturing in Britain is partly due to the decision by big companies to stay in Britain rather than move overseas, bucking the trend of previous decades. The effect of retaining production here is arguably more important than the […]

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Wynright Client Asset Modernization Program Extends Useful Life of Material … – Business Wire (press release)

April 20, 2015

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wynright Corporation, a subsidiary of Daifuku North America Holding Company and a leading provider of intelligent material handling systems, announced today an expansion of its after-sales market support program to meet the needs of organizations grappling to stay ahead of re-shoring and omni-channel fulfillment trends. Its new Client Asset Modernization initiative […]

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Latin America’s Complex Data Protection Laws Not Cause For US Firms to Reshore

April 20, 2015
Data Concerns Not Driving Reshoring There has been some suggestion that concerns over data security in Latin America are leading buyers in the United States to reshore work that they had outsourced to the region. Everest Group noted recently that the …
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AUSTECH 2015 set for May – Manufacturers’ Monthly

April 16, 2015

While manufacturers opened the new year with reductions in sales, the fall in the value of the Australian dollar could stimulate the manufacturing sector over the coming months. This year’s AUSTECH exhibition comes at the right time, it seems, which, co-hosted with National Manufacturing Week (NMW), is expected to attract a combined total of over […]

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‘Reshoring’: Will U.S. Manufacturing Make a Comeback?

April 12, 2015
Call it “reshoring,” or “insourcing” if you prefer. By any name, a significant movement of manufacturing back to U.S. shores is exactly what our economy needs. Factory movement overseas has opened a hole in the American job market that nothing else …
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No more tears (tiers!): revving up for automotive supply chain success – Lexology (registration)

April 9, 2015

The latest Automotive Council Report (March 2015 Report) identifies some very interesting and potentially lucrative UK supply chain and supplier opportunities.  In particular, the Report showcases a big jump in demand from British vehicle manufacturers for high value British-made/sourced components – a continuing drive for increased localisation of the supply chain.  It also builds […]

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The Long, Long Wait for a Manufacturing Renaissance – Although a growing … – EBN

April 6, 2015

Is the onshoring trend more hype than substance? Exactly a year has passed since my six-part series on the top 10 compelling reasons fueling the onshoring trend. As I pointed out then, we are still a long way from a manufacturing Renaissance in the United States. However, the undeniable influx of jobs brought back […]

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Manufacturing UK event to highlight reshoring – ETMM Online

April 2, 2015

UK – On 23 April 2015 the UK-based trade association GTMA will once again host its ‘Manufacturing UK’ event at Yamazaki Mazak’s state-of-the-art machine tool manufacturing plant, Worcester. Over the last year or so the trend has been for large OEMs to reconsider their outsourcing policies. Companies have reported work returning to the UK which […]

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