OTTAWA — Canada’s manufacturing sector is finally poised for a true recovery after spending the last eight years in survival mode, according to a new report from consulting firm KPMG. In the report, KPMG says many of the headwinds that worked against the sector during and since the 2008-09 recession are poised to reverse. One […]
Reshoring News
The Mississippi Make It In America (MMIIA) team is hosting a FREE Reshoring Opportunities Workshop on Wednesday and Thursday at the Itawamba Community College Belden Center in Tupelo. The Reshoring Opportunities Workshop will focus on creating jobs in Mississippi through reshoring, which is the process of bringing jobs back to Mississippi that have been previously offshored to […]
Independent Congressional candidate Josh Ramirez wants to reduce the nation’s trade deficit and bring jobs that have moved overseas home to the Mid-Columbia. He’s never run for office before, but has targeted the Congressional seat held by retiring Doc Hastings because he did not see a way to so dramatically improve the economy by running […]
Over the past few decades, we’ve learned the hard way that once manufacturing is gone, engineering know-how quickly follows, and then later on innovation and our national security suffers the consequences. That’s a place that America has never been before. In May of 2012, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee reported more than 1,800 cases […]
Manufacturing output in the UK saw a surprise fall of 1.3% in May, the biggest decline since January 2013, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics. This left much head scratching as manufacturing data and surveys so far this year had indicated that the sector has been growing pretty robustly. The wider […]
A new report in IPC’s series of onshoring studies, On-Shoring in the North American Electronics Industry: Update on Trends and the Impact on Companies, has been published by IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries®. Presenting data collected by IPC over the past two years, the report highlights North American electronics industry trends in onshoring and […]
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 […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The latest statistics on job growth look good and manufacturing seems to be making a comeback. That’s the assessment from KMBZ Chief Economist Chris Kuehl. In the last couple of years, high shipping costs have caused investors to re-shore; moving jobs back from overseas. Kuehl says that change is especially […]
• “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 […]




