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IMTS 2012 Pre-Registration Number Crosses 82K – Ten Links

September 10, 2012

IMTS 2012 Pre-Registration Number Crosses 82K CHICAGO, IL , Sep 10, 2012 – Show Management for IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2012 which is being held at Chicago’s McCormick Place, starting today through September 15, announced that pre-registration for the event has surpassed the total IMTS […]

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Pakistan weary of hosting millions of Afghan refugees – New York Daily News

September 10, 2012

Awal Gul knows that home is just a two-hour drive over the jagged ridgeline that separates Pakistan from Afghanistan. But he hasn’t been there in more than 30 years, since Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul. A refugee of a long-gone era, he doesn’t have a patch of land to return to, or a house or […]

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Localised Outsourcing – sourcingfocus.com

September 10, 2012

Localised Outsourcing by sourcingfocus.com The recent trend for localised outsourcing includes hiring local employees which eliminate language barriers and cultural difference. These challenges tend to have negative effects on customer service and the public perception of outsourcing in general. Could increased localising turn it all around? You don’t have to go to the big city […]

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Textiles begin weaving their way home – The Independent

September 8, 2012

Pennine Weaving, located just outside Bradford, and Huddersfield’s W T Johnson & Sons respectively wove and dyed the suit in 2009, in what now looks like an early sign of a textiles boom that has breathed life into an industry that had been stumbling for decades. This winter, J D Williams, a plus-size clothing group that is […]

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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Bringing jobs and taxes back home – This is Money

September 7, 2012

By  Ruth Sunderland PUBLISHED:  15:51 EST, 7 September 2012 UPDATED:  15:51 EST, 7 September 2012 One of the most glaring disparities thrown up by the financial crisis is between wealthy global corporates and impoverished governments – national, regional and local. California is perhaps the most striking example. The US state is the nurturing ground for […]

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3-D Printing Comes To The Battlefield, And To Your Garage – Co.Exist

September 7, 2012

As the government breaks ground on the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, a $70 million public-private scheme to industrialize 3-D printing, the hope is the U.S. can once again compete in low-cost manufacturing. But 3-D printing–which involves building objects by printing and layering molten plastic and other materials–promises not only to re-shore capacity. It could […]

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Manncorp helps manufacturers ‘reshore’ with fully-supported SMT production lines – EMSNow (press release)

September 7, 2012

Manncorp helps manufacturers reshore’ with fully-supported SMT production lines Sep 07, 2012 After a decade of “cheap” manufacturing, US manufacturers are finding that quality control issues, theft of intellectual property, rising shipping and labor costs, long lead times, supply chain disruptions, customs problems, and the delays caused by distance and communication difficulties are adding much […]

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Reshoring to have ‘limited’ effect – China Daily

September 7, 2012

Trend of foreign firms returning is temporary, economist says Officials at the Ministry of Commerce have insisted that China remains a strong and attractive market for foreign investors, despite reports that growing numbers of international companies, particularly manufacturers, have been considering pulling out of the market, as their own nations’ economies suffer. Shen Danyang, the ministry […]

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US Bank dedicates $75000 to Innovate North State over 3 years – Mercury-Register

September 6, 2012

CHICO — U.S. Bank has committed to donate a total of $75,000 over three years to Chico-based Innovate North State.With this investment, U.S. Bank becomes the title sponsor of the inaugural Manufacturing RePatriation Summit. Planned some time in 2013 at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., the summit’s goal is to explore opportunities to bring home foreign […]

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A Select Comparison/Contrast of the Democratic & Republican Platforms on … – Economic Populist

September 6, 2012

With the political convention rhetoric soaring and political ads about to carpet bomb the airwaves, we thought it might be useful to comparison/contrast the Democratic and Republican platforms and show for U.S. workers both have policy agendas which will damage the middle class. The Democratic platform is here and the Republican one, seemingly not even […]

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