Reshoring News

Foxconn Chairman: Reshoring to US Not Easy

by admin on February 20, 2017

SHENZHEN – US manufacturers may encounter obstacles if they plan to return their operations to the US, Foxconn’s CEO and chairman asserted, according to published reports. Terry Gou said financial incentives are the key to selecting the best location for …
Through raising productivity and efficiency, robotics technology rather safeguards production within Europe and even enables reshoring of production that had been shifted to low-wage countries outside Europe,” Zulauf adds. As statistical figures by the …

Towards a New Trade Policy

by admin on February 20, 2017

The trend towards producing more with fewer workers is irreversible. However, for high-technology goods in particular, this can actually favor reshoring, as cost of labor becomes less important, while worker skills and a climate of innovation represent …
the potential for this change is enough to make many large companies rethink their plans to offshore manufacturing and make moves to reshore instead. For instance, Intel just announced plans to invest over $7 billion to create the most advanced …
while Italian leather goods brand Piquadro announced earlier this year the company aims to provide customers with products that are genuinely ‘Made in Italy’. After years of manufacturing in China, it will reshore part of its production. Read more here.
MEDC recognizes Mississippi State’s CAVS Extension for jobs reshoring initiative  Mississippi State Newsroom

Mississippi State’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Extension is a major honoree of the Mississippi Economic Development Council.

The need for speed also changes production. What’s going to happen here? Is reshoring viable and is with that an all-out robotization inevitable? The answers to these big questions can be found at the first World Cycling Forum, where an interactive …
An advocacy group called the Reshoring Initiative says 265,000 jobs have returned to American shores from 2010 through mid-2016. Reasons: rising wages in some other countries, shorter delivery times at home and a greater ability to meet changing customer …

Morrisons to recruit 200 new British suppliers

by admin on February 19, 2017

John Glen, CIPS economist, said reshoring supply chains would be an increasingly attractive option for buyers as supply chain risk increases this year. Morrisons’ announcement follows the release of a report, commissioned by the supermarket and written …
“We have watched this one build through the data, whether in trade disputes at the World Trade Organisation or growing reshoring in Europe and the US, but the twin surprises of Brexit and Trump seem to tip this from a slightly obscure investment view …