Reshoring Article Library

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…

When fitness equipment like kettlebells, hand weights and dumbbells became hot sellers at the start of the pandemic, Midwestern retailer Meijer created a Michigan-made solution to bolster supply and address the more than 300 percent increase…

Sorry tariff hating Davos Man and Bloombergers, Americans are indeed fine with paying more for their gadgets and gear if it is made by countries that share their values. In other words, we don’t need…

As manufacturers plot their paths forward, many are paying closer attention to supply chain resiliency and the need for stronger, tech-enabled supply chains that can withstand shocks.  The global pandemic upended most of the business…

We can learn a lot from history. In the face of a global pandemic that has upended the business world, the measures taken in the short-term will lead to significant shifts that will last for…

PTA Plastics has invested more than $2 million in six new injection molding machines—four Wittmann Battenfeld’s and two Engel’s—that it will divide between its facilities in Colorado and Connecticut. In total, the company acquired four machines from…

A major shock to supply chain operations, COVID-19 exposed the weaknesses of the current supply chain paradigm and forced firms to consider the challenges of rebuilding their supply chains due to supplier exits. For some industries, the…

What products and components offer the biggest opportunities for reshoring? What advanced manufacturing technology is needed to enable the reshoring? To what degree did the pandemic disrupt supply chains, and how did it affect sourcing?…

The novel coronavirus pandemic, along with the various shutdowns and slowdowns it caused, taught a lot of people whose jobs rub up against the supply chain some valuable lessons in 2020. As millions of businesses…

One of the surest methods for equitably reinforcing the U.S. economy is through the repatriation of overseas manufacturing jobs. Long desired, reshoring actually started in earnest prior to the pandemic, though it certainly gained momentum…

The Biden-Harris transition website posts Biden’s policy for U.S. manufacturing and for addressing supply chain shortages due to Covid19. But can we take what is written at face value? Like all politicians’ statements, this one is high-level, sweeping…

A trade war with China and the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have U.S. companies starting to question a decades-old strategy of shifting manufacturing operations to low-cost labor markets in China and other Asian…

COVID, COVID, COVID. As I sat down to write my usual year-end review of plastics in the medical space, that’s what ran through my mind. Of course, there was nothing remotely normal about 2020, thanks…

If designers are the fuel for packaging innovation, packaging production engineers are the engines that make it run — and as efficiently as possible. This may have been an atypical year in a lot of…