A Detroit artist-turned-businessman said he was “floating” Tuesday afternoon after his company, Trash-Ease, which makes portable trash-bag holders, landed its biggest order ever at Wal-Mart’s “Made in the USA” open call to find American-made products. The event Tuesday at Wal-Mart’s Bentonville, Ark., headquarters was part of the retailer’s initiative, announced last year, to buy […]

• “Reshoring” succeeds in bringing more than 600,000 jobs back to United States; helping reverse decades of “offshoring.” By Keith Johnson — The tide may be turning for those Americans who have lost their livelihoods to overseas workforces during the past few decades. Since 2010, manufacturing employment has increased by 600,000 jobs as more American […]

Booming demand for its infrared heaters, particularly in China’s rapidly-growing chicken farm industry, has led Ontario-based exporter Superior Radiant Products Ltd. to the next logical step: “next-shore” production of its industrial and commercial heaters to Qingdao in China. The Canadian manufacturer has supplied the Chinese market for these products from its plant in Stoney Creek, […]

The repatriation of manufacturing jobs in America is clearly based on clear-headed rather than nationalistic decision-making. Companies note that reshoring is not just about foreign wages anymore; it’s about serving and reacting to markets from a closer vantage point. And it’s foreign companies doing it, too. July 4 is approaching, so it behooves me to […]