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We formalized our American Dynamism practice a little more than a year ago to galvanize support for solving our country’s most vexing challenges with an entrepreneurial and technology-first approach. We’ve been blown away at how this movement has captured the minds of entrepreneurs, policymakers, and investors across the country and throughout the world.   So first, […]

It’s not often a regulatory body sets out to remake an entire industry, said the Los Angeles Times, but that’s just what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to do with the automakers. A good thing too. Last week it proposed new emission rules that require manufacturers to electrify two-thirds of their passenger vehicles by 2032, […]

EMCOR Group, Inc. EME reported impressive first-quarter 2022 results wherein earnings and revenues surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate and increased year over year. Strong demand for its services across several resilient non-residential market sectors and strength in the U.S. segments drove organic revenue growth by 10.1%. Following the results, shares of the company jumped 8.6% […]

Britain’s Orro Bikes has built a strong following over the past decade off the back of an ever-expanding range that’s designed and developed in-house, and it has just moved into a brand new 25,000ft2 facility in Sussex where it plans to assemble the entire lineup. We paid Orro a visit to check out the new […]

Reshoring drug production

by admin on April 17, 2023

Trouble was brewing before the pandemic, according to Anthony Sardella, a senior research adviser at the Center for Analytics and Business Insights and adjunct lecturer at Olin Business School. For years, the ­U.S­. had become increasingly reliant on foreign ­manufacturers for chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients used in critical drugs like antibiotics, blood pressure pills, […]

Prepared by Maria-Grazia Attinasi, Lukas Boeckelmann and Baptiste Meunier Published as part of the ECB Economic Bulletin, Issue 2/2023. In recent years, geopolitical considerations have started to play an increasing role in global trade relations. While criticism of globalisation pre-dated the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, geopolitical tensions have strengthened, particularly in the face of the pandemic and […]

Over the past three years, we’ve seen the emergence of two dominant themes relating to unpredictable market demand, prices and materials: the need to reduce risk, and to optimize supply chains. SAP recently reported that more than half of U.S. companies expect supply chain issues to continue in 2023. Yet large and mid-market businesses are still […]

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring. With this comes the need for new strategies leveraging data analytics, machine learning, robotics and advanced design simulation enabled by HPC-class compute power […]

The world is confronting a number of challenges, including a global health pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These shocks have exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chains created by decades of failed trade policy and corporate-driven globalization, resulting in shortages of critical supplies and manufacturing inputs and amplifying inflation. The Biden–Harris Administration […]

Pandemic-induced supply chain hurdles caused many of Wisconsin’s manufacturers to reevaluate where they are getting materials, and industry consultants expect that trend to continue. Some companies already moved some of their supply chains back to North America, but future geopolitical pressures could force manufacturers to accelerate those plans. In northeast Wisconsin, manufacturers have increasingly looked […]