Almost a year ago Wal-Mart held an “open call” for manufacturers to present product ideas. Hugh Jarratt showed up with a plastic taco plate. It’s been a hit. He just sent more plates to 49 Wal-Mart distribution centers, and he’s got two new ideas for the open call set for July 7 in Bentonville. Jarratt, […]
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“We have avoided having an infrastructure in China,” says Mr Crozier, who has been backed by support from the Manufacturing Advisory Service’s Reshore UK service, “so they buy from us here and we ship direct. Everything is then consolidated in Hong Kong.” HP is looking to recognise SMEs that have successfully cracked the export market […]
“For onshore to have a future, it has to be profitable to retailers and manufacturers with properly paid workers” Can mass-market clothing be made legally – or ethically – in the UK or the US if it’s competing with low-wage production? Not according to Mike Flanagan, who calls Western labour practices “onshoring’s dirty […]
Yesterday we spoke about the top motivations and reasons why reshoring in America from offshored facilities has several benefits and what are the statistics of reshoring since 2013. To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important …
This is the first post in a two part series on our update on Reshoring. We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category.
News Item From: 6/19/2015 Modern Machine Shop, Edited by Jedd Cole , Assistant Editor The Reshoring Initiative has published its annual data report on reshoring trends, highlighting […]
The Reshoring Initiative, an organization committed to helping manufacturers recognize the profit potential of domestic sourcing and production, has published its updated reshoring numbers that illustrate the U.S. manufacturing advantages driving the manufacturing renaissance. A growing number of companies across the country are bringing thousands of manufacturing jobs home from offshore. California should do all it […]
Anecdotal evidence of the nation’s reshoring trend can be found from coast to coast. Data from the Reshoring Initiative, however, shows it’s primarily southern states that are seeing the benefits of manufacturing companies returning production from overseas. The group’s numbers show that the south easily accounted for more jobs reshored to the U.S. than the rest of […]
Transportation and electrical equipment accounted for most of the reshored U.S. jobs over the last five years, according to a report from the Reshoring Initiative. The Illinois-based group’s data showed 33 companies that produced transportation equipment returned 13,823 jobs from overseas to the U.S. Ford and General Motors, respectively, led the way in that industry […]
BRISTOL, Pa., June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin today visited Bioplast Manufacturing, LLC and WorldWide Life Sciences to highlight Governor Wolf’s proposals to reinvigorate Pennsylvania’s manufacturing sector and provide additional support to small businesses at the first stop on […]
