HATFIELD, PA – Lincoln Logs’ owner will reshore production of its tiny logs to the U.S., now that it has found a domestic supplier in PrideSports, Burnham, ME. The logs have been produced in China for the  toy maker K’Nex Brands, which is famed for insourcing its other toy lines. The […]

Depending on who you speak to, the United States manufacturing sector is either undergoing a second renaissance or doesn’t exist at all.  The truth of the matter is that the current state of the U.S. production economy exists somewhere in the middle of the two. While it isn’t necessarily decrepit, procurement officers across the globe […]

The Reshoring Initiative has announced that U.S. Bank Equipment Finance renewed its sponsorship to support the Initiative’s goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.  “We are delighted that U.S. Bank Equipment Finance, a financial leader in the manufacturing arena, has decided to renew its sponsorship to help the Initiative […]

opinion By Vanessa Burger 2014 in South Africa was marked by a number of large-scale national scandals. Far more insidious, however, are the small, subtle, everyday distortions or omissions of truth which have become pervasive in our political discourse. These distortions, championed by politicians, characterize the public, the media, NGOs and academia. 2014 was not […]