Reshoring News

For robots, there’s no place like home! For years, we’ve watched much of the US manufacturing base move to other countries, especially China. This has been especially noticeable in high-tech, where first televisions and then personal computers and smartphones moved to lower-cost manufacturing. This also happened in the European Union (EU). In the […]

Comments Print In the past three decades, American workers have been […]

White House Roundtable on Investing in America Details Created on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:53 Written by White House Washington, DC – At a time when our businesses have created 9.2 million new jobs in just over four years, and more companies are considering bringing jobs here, we have a choice to make.  We can […]

WASHINGTON — Michael Penner, the president and CEO of the Richelieu Group, a Canadian legwear company, will share his company’s story of U.S. investment and job creation at a White House roundtable discussion today. President Obama, with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, and National Economic Council Director Jeff Zients, is hosting the […]

WHITEWATER – In 2001, Generac Power Systems joined the wave of American companies shifting production to China. The move wiped out 400 jobs in southeast Wisconsin, but few could argue with management’s logic: Chinese companies were offering to make a key component for $100 per unit less than the cost of producing it in the […]

By MARK DANNA, Vice President Business Development, OWENS DESIGN, INC. After nearly a quarter of a century, the off-shoring manufacturing trend that decimated the U.S. manufacturing sector and played a significant role in the slow pace of the current economic recovery seems to be ending. A number of large manufacturers, including NCR, Apple, Google, Caterpillar, […]

There are many bullish reports and articles on reshoring proliferating the B2B media, but hold those alongside the many reports and articles expressing manufacturing’s concerns over lack of skilled workers, and you see one big reason why a reshoring success could be hampered.  A newly released study, Accenture 2014 Manufacturing Skills and Training Study, continued […]

What does ‘Made in the UK’ mean for the fashion sector, Nieper asks The momentum for ‘Made in the UK’ products might be growing in popularity – both with retailers and consumers – but a lack of skilled labour and an ageing workforce are weighing on its progress. One company working to reverse […]

In 2001, Generac Power Systems joined the wave of American companies shifting production to China. The move wiped out 400 jobs in southeast Wisconsin, but few could argue with management’s logic: Chinese companies were offering to make a key component for $100 per unit less than the cost of producing it in the U.S. […]