Reshoring Article Library

We’ve toiled away for years in relative obscurity and have had to explain over and over to our friends and relatives what we do for a living. We’ve been the obscure operations backbone behind the…

It is safe to say that 2020 was an extremely disruptive year for the global supply chain. Now, as countries begin to roll out vaccines and an end to the pandemic appears in sight, manufacturers…

Days after his inauguration, President Biden signed an executive order modifying the rules for the Buy American program. Essentially, the order will: Make it harder for contractors to qualify for a waiver and sell foreign-made goods to…

Many companies are looking to bring manufacturing back to North America in order to diversify risk and be closer to their customers. While this has been a trend for some time, the recent set of…

Economic changes can seem like they happen at a supersonic pace, especially with so many metrics available for economic measurement.  Anthony Smith and Zach Strickland discuss the actual speed of economic recovery in this episode…

Tensions between the U.S. and China have grown in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, triggering a broader debate about supply chains, reshoring, and resilience. In truth, because of the many variables at play, it…

C-Sweet, a rapidly growing national organization with a mission to foster executive level relationships for women across sectors in business and industry, has announced a new virtual event- C-Sweet Reshoring American Jobs and Industries- set…

Reshoring is the opposite of offshoring. It applies to companies that are bringing production and manufacturing “back home,” i.e. returning it to the country in which the company was first established. In other words, if…

With 69% of North American manufacturers recently indicating they're "likely" or even "extremely likely" to reshore their supply chains in response to the impacts of COVID-19 and tariffs, Thomas Insights brought longtime reshoring advocate Barry Zekelman, executive chairman and…

With the arrival of COVID-19 in early 2020, U.S. medical workers soon faced a shocking scarcity of masks, gowns and gloves to protect them from the infectious new disease, interrupting critical care and forcing the…

While optimism is returning to the economy, 83% of U.S.-based chief financial officers (CFOs) expect their company to take up to a year to recover, according to the 2021 BDO Manufacturing CFO Outlook Survey. Of the…

Even before the election of Donald Trump, reshoring was already in vogue. After decades spent moving factories from the U.S. to China, in recent years corporate America has been thinking of reversing this trend and…

Due to the impact of automation and robotics, the World Economic Forum expects 85 million jobs to be disrupted by 2025, while 97 million jobs will be created. We saw similar numbers in the 1990s…

CytoImmune Therapeutics and Biosimilar Sciences will invest a combined total of $228 million to set up operations in Puerto Rico. The plan – which was announced by Invest Puerto Rico last week – will see…

Today’s supply chains and manufacturing operations are global, highly efficient, and carefully tuned. At the same time, the COVID-19 black-swan event has demonstrated painfully that they are also fragile and lacking transparency at times when…

Plastics processors already short staffed due to a yawning skills gap faced sudden, desperate demand for products needed to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Initial stop-gap, emergency manufacture for things like personal protective equipment (PPE)…

The Cobb Chamber and SelectCobb invite you to attend their upcoming virtual webinar, “Reshoring: What Does It Means For Your Business.” Reshoring is the practice of bringing manufacturing and services back to the U.S. from…

SkyWater Technology, a company which has been very vocal about the need for a secure domestic chip production, continues to show the way by expanding its operations with a manufacturing fab in Florida The company…

No one predicted 2020 would be the year when supply chain trends would shoot to the top of everyone's watch list.  Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted manufacturing and supply chains around the world. Auto production…

Upon entering office, President Biden quickly set to work undoing executive actions taken by his predecessor, President Trump, and issuing new ones reflecting his own priorities. During his first week as President, Biden signed executive…