Reshoring Article Library

2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic. But it was also a year of reckoning for globalization writ large, and, in particular, the mechanisms of a highly interdependent and integrated global economy.…

The past year-plus has seen a lot of ups and downs for companies at all stages of the supply chain, and many are only now beginning to get back to normal operations after months of…

Despite the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, the global plastics industry is expected to rebound in 2021 due to the resumption of activities in its major end markets in line with progressive containment of the…

When the pandemic spread around the world in early 2020, trade in goods shrunk at the fastest pace on record, only to reverse course mid-year and surpass its pre-pandemic level before year-end. The logistics industry was in the eye of…

The Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee of the US Senate has passed the bipartisan legislation that will strengthen efforts to onshore production of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the US by requiring federal agencies…

We’ve been waiting for this moment for more than a year — the highly anticipated economic bounce back. That time when we finally see one of those dramatic recovery curves representing an end to the…

Global manufacturing and supply chains were severely disrupted by the COVID-19 global pandemic, forcing companies to adapt and plan for a new business reality. The 2021 State of Manufacturing Report from Fictiv reveals an industry that is…

With sustainability spurring innovation, the market is estimated to reach $558.71 billion in 2021, up from $533.04 billion in 2020, with a CAGR of 4.8% SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 18, 2021 /CNW/ -- Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Industry Convergence to…

n the wee hours of Easter morning 2020 — as the pandemic raged and most people were sleeping — there was a quiet but important handoff happening in Ohio. About 2 a.m. a group of…

After decades of offshoring manufacturing to save on labour, the vulnerabilities of relying on overseas production have become increasingly clear. Along with a rise in cyberattacks and ongoing trade wars, Canadian manufacturers have also seen…

Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on at least one thing: Buy American. The slogan was a centerpiece of Biden's recent address to Congress, backed up with one of his first executive orders. Why it matters: Federal law has…

Last week I had an opportunity to visit the new US-Mexico commercial border crossing at Otay Mesa, CA – about 20 miles east of the San Diego/Tijuana border crossing.  The Otay Mesa crossing was built…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the global interdependency of pharmaceutical supply chains into sharp focus, exposing weak links & re-igniting discussions around the value of reshoring production. The U.S. FDA reports 72% of facilities manufacturing…

Visibility. Traceability. Data management. Supplier relations. These used to be the biggest challenges facing supply chain professionals. However, over the last 15 months, uncontrollable factors like COVID-19 have merged with technological evolutions to create a…

American manufacturing lost ground to low-cost Asian countries in 2020, according to consulting firm Kearney’s annual reshoring index report. The index tracks whether the US is reshoring manufacturing jobs from China and other low-cost countries…

A group of former parliamentarians are forming a new non-partisan advocacy organization called Reshoring Canada, which is designed to promote a more modern and secure supply chain. “The pandemic has exposed risk in our supply…

The majority of Americans want to "bring manufacturing back" to the U.S. The problem? Many of these same people do not want their children to work in manufacturing because of outdated beliefs about what a…

The current national controversy over the need for a mandatory high minimum wage is but a symptom of a much larger underlying problem: the offshoring of American manufacturing capability. Offshoring ruined Spain and Portugal during…

Despite popular belief, or what people might think, the Covid pandemic was not the biggest source of disruption for supply chains in 2020, according to the latest Annual Supply Chain Risk Report released this week by supply…

More than a year into the COVID-19 crisis, the novel coronavirus continues to disrupt our societies, including how the pharmaceutical industry operates; Andrew Badrot, CEO of C2 PHARMA, discusses the ongoing ramifications of the pandemic.…