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Made in the USA? Not Anytime Soon – Huffington Post

September 12, 2014

At every conference or trade show I attend, there is one question that’s always asked: is apparel manufacturing returning to America? While there may not be one simple answer, from everything I’ve observed, I lean toward a pretty emphatic ‘no.’ Economically, reshoring can’t work at any significant scale. In recent years, there has been a […]

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Molded Rubber & Plastics Corp. sees customers re-shoring work from China – Milwaukee Business Journal

September 10, 2014

Molded Rubber & Plastics Corp. is seeing work return form China, but a recent survey from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce found that the migration of re-shoring work to Wisconsin from overseas has been more like a slow trickle than a rush. Of the 261 companies that responded, 4 percent said they had already re-shored jobs […]

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Retail Horizons: Is onshoring the most sustainable option? – GreenBiz.com (blog)

September 10, 2014

This article is the fourth in a 12-part series about the future of U.S. retail for the Forum for the Future-led 2014 Retail Horizons project in partnership with Retail Industry Leaders Association. For more about the project and the toolkit available in October, read the first post, which also contains a table of contents for […]

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Work Wanted: Reshoring Initiative is meant to bring manufacturing jobs back to … – Florida Times-Union

September 9, 2014

You’ve probably heard of offshoring: the flow of manufacturing and service functions and jobs to countries outside the United States. Companies seeking to reduce the cost of labor and materials moved factories from Northeastern states to Southeastern states as early as the 1880s; by the 1920s, the New England textile mills had almost all been […]

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Talent Shortages? Blame Salary, Not Just Training – Manufacturing.net (blog)

September 9, 2014

As the economy has turned around and employers have been seeking to invest in fresh blood, a consistent tone of unemployable youth has been ringing from the manufacturing and engineering ranks. The skills gap is a growing problem as baby boomers are retiring and green workers are attempting to enter the workforce.  Read: What Happens […]

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Wal-Mart’s onshoring manufacturing effort hits snag with Redman problem – The City Wire

September 9, 2014

Mel Redman was the early face of the much-publicized effort by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to return manufacturing jobs on the U.S., but his company faces a troubling hitch in plans by to make battery-operated ride-on toys in Redman & Associates spacious new assembly plant in Rogers. Sales Chief, Redman’s Hong Kong-based manufacturing arm cut off […]

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Work Wanted: Reshoring Initiative is meant to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, and it’s working

September 7, 2014
But a group of industry leaders wanted to stop the bleeding, and in 2010, Harry Moser founded The Reshoring Initiative, an industry-led effort to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Moser, like his father before him, worked in manufacturing.
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The Supply Side: Creative Things responding to challenges of onshoring – The City Wire

September 4, 2014

No one told Keith Scheffler that moving his plastics manufacturing business from Asia to Lowell, Ark., would be easy, even if Wal-Mart Stores is the company’s largest customer. Scheffler, owner and CEO of Creative Things, said onshoring the business has been a five-year process and he’s still trying to figure it all out with the […]

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Next-Shoring: New Frontier For Manufacturing? – InformationWeek

September 3, 2014

The speed of manufacturing is accelerating, requiring a combo of nearshoring and unified communications. The manufacturing industry is changing how it operates. In many ways, it’s not unlike changes we’ve seen before. Manufacturers have always focused on being close to suppliers and customers. To accomplish this, and to produce enough inexpensive products to meet […]

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Pace Industries expands in Arkansas, benefits from ‘reshoring’ efforts – The City Wire

September 2, 2014

In an economic age where many companies are returning their manufacturing operations from overseas to in part satisfy consumer demands and also save money, an Arkansas-based company already has that advantage. Pace Industries’ corporate headquarters are in Fayetteville and it’s the central office for the company’s 17 locations (10 divisions) in North America (United States […]

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