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Made in the USA (Again) – Foreign Policy (blog)

March 28, 2014

In 1998, Drew Greenblatt took control of Marlin Steel, a small, family-owned company in Brooklyn. The company produced handmade steel-wire baskets used in display cases at bagel stores, and for decades business had boomed, all through the 1990s and even through the early 2000s. But around 2003, two things happened: The skyrocketing popularity of […]

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Reshoring…the UK manufacturing trend of 2014? – The Engineer

March 28, 2014

Email Share Comment Save Viewpoint Steven Barr, Head of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS), explains why reshoring is an opportunity manufacturers – both small and large – should seize with both hands. […]

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Top U.S. Executives Optimistic On A New Wave Of American Manufacturing – Forbes

March 27, 2014

Manufacturing may be coming back to the United States, but it will never be what it once was. Manufacturing is changing for the future, and top executives at some of the nation’s biggest companies laid out the future of the industry in a discussion at the Forbes Reinventing America conference on Thursday. “This is not […]

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Analysis: Is the UK reshoring tide beginning to turn? – just-style.com

March 27, 2014

There has been a lot of talk about reshoring as one of the emerging manufacturing trends of the future, but as yet little robust evidence has been produced on the scale of any such shift, especially when it comes to clothing and textiles. But new research has attempted to put some figures onto the likely […]

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Alucast reshores £2.5m contracts from India and Brazil – Birmingham Post

March 27, 2014

A trend for business being brought back to the West Mildands from abroad has continued after a foundry reshored £2.5 million worth of business. Wednesbury-based Alucast, which specialises in sand, gravity and pressure casting, has won business back from India and Brazil, continuing a reshoring theme that has created 1,500 manufacturing jobs since 2011. Managing […]

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Survey: EU regulation needed to reshore European businesses – InsideCounsel

March 25, 2014

A new survey finds that business leaders would consider bringing some parts of their businesses back to Europe if the EU reformed to become more competitive. In a new survey conducted by CBI, a UK-based lobbying group for businesses, senior leaders of firms also called for political action to increase labor market flexibility and ensure […]

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Born In the U.S.A. – Fabricating.com Champions American Factories as … – EIN News (press release)

March 25, 2014

Fabricating.com’s groundbreaking Precise Matching platform showcases U.S. manufacturers ready to take on reshored work. HOBOKEN, NJ, USA, March 25, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ — A key supporter of domestic manufacturing, Fabricating.com is helping U.S. manufacturers promote their capabilities and capture jobs that are being reshored. The importance of U.S. manufacturing cannot be overstated. It’s part of […]

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Born in the U.S.A. – Fabricating.com Champions American Factories as … – PR Web (press release)

March 25, 2014

Connecting U.S. buyers of custom manufactured parts to American manufacturers. Fabricating.com has set the new standard for sourcing in the U.S., delivering the network needed by engineers and purchasing professionals to carve out next-gen supplier networks that stimulate the economy and energize our nation of makers. […]

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Born in the USA – Fabricating.com Champions American Factories as Reshoring … – Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

March 25, 2014

Fabricating.com’s groundbreaking Precise Matching platform showcases U.S. manufacturers ready to take on reshored work. Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) March 25, 2014 A key supporter of domestic manufacturing, Fabricating.com is helping U.S. manufacturers promote their capabilities and capture jobs that are being reshored. The importance of U.S. manufacturing cannot be overstated. It’s part of our American fabric […]

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Is ‘made in the USA’ really the most sustainable way to manufacture? – The Guardian

March 24, 2014

When Victor Lytvinenko taught English in Switzerland, he nearly came to blows with his host grandmother over her new purchase of a Swiss Army kitchen knife. The woman defended her $450 investment as an exquisite tool and future heirloom, telling Lytvinenko that Americans will buy twenty $20 knives and never own a good one. He […]

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