The recent Bangladesh collapse has raised an overall awareness on the safety being taken when manufacturers produce garments overseas. The All American Clothing Co, a USA made jean manufacturer is proving it can be done with safety and profit. El Paso, Texas was once considered the blue jeans capital of the world. According to the […]
Martin Rawls-Meehan, CEO of Reverie, poses at the company showroom next to a bed that reveals the manufacturing process, in Silver Creek, N.Y. The company is working to expand manufacturing in the United States. (AP Photo/David Duprey) By Joyce m. Rosenberg AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Martin Rawls-Meehan started making adjustable beds […]
Clothing with Joe Fresh labels lies in the debris on April 30 By Calum Macleod DHAKA, Bangladesh — Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good. Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli Akhter, 20, made decent money — about $140 a […]
NEW YORK — You can recycle your waste, grow your own food and drive a fuel-efficient car. But being socially responsible isn’t so easy when it comes to the clothes on your back. Jason and Alexandra Lawrence of Lyons, Colo., eat locally grown food and fill up their diesel-powered Volkswagen and Dodge pickup with vegetable-based […]
Mark Tomlinson CEO, Society of Manufacturing Engineers There’s been a lot of discussion lately about American manufacturing: why it’s important to a strong economy, what policies could strengthen it, and if the signs of resurgence will result in jobs for the many who remain unemployed in this country. (“Is U.S. manufacturing making a comeback, or is […]
Michele Nash-Hoff When I first started talking about saving America manufacturing and returning manufacturing to America four years ago after the first edition of my book, Can American Manufacturing be Saved? Why we should and how we can, came out, I was met with a great deal of skepticism. Some typical comments were: “I don’t think […]
Sally Schilling/Daily Journal Dylan Sievers, right, and Lisa Sievers, third from right, with the Bulldog Lighting company. Sally Schilling Most Americans probably don’t think twice when they read a label that says, “Made in USA” They assume the product is made domestically. What they don’t realize is that the meaning of “Made in the USA” […]
Labels of garments made in Bangladesh, India, China, and Pakistan (AP Photo/David Goldman) Kim Bhasin Six dollars. That’s how much more an American consumer would have to pay for the typical T-shirt made in the U.S. rather than in a potentially unsafe factory in a poor, faraway country. So reckons Eric Henry, chief executive […]
Kenneth Rapoza China loves Made in the U.S.A. China’s Favorite U.S. States in 2012 The No. 2 economy kept its spot as the third largest importer of U.S. goods last year, second only to neighborly Canada and Mexico.“The U.S.-China trade relationship strengthens America’s economy and creates well-paying jobs for many American workers across the country,” […]
Backers of the legislation to create a “Made in California” label include electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc., a group of San Francisco Bay Area green-tech firms and small-business advocates. But some business leaders see problems ahead for the concept. (Jane Tyska, Contra Costa Times / April 11, 2013) Marc Lifsher The legislation, for manufactured products, […]
The ‘poster child’ for USA made clothing continues to grow as they create new products. All American Clothing Co. today announced a new line of tee shirts. Three new styles have been designed and added to its inventory with high quality expectations. They are also sold at an affordable price that will allow anyone to […]
by: Zainab Akande Check the tag of the clothes you’re wearing, either now or sometime after you read this article. There is always small printed text that informs the customer where that item of clothing was made. More often than not, the name of some far away country completely unrelated to our daily lives is listed. The […]
By Peter Grier Staff writer The Walt Disney Company pulls out of five developing countries – including Bangladesh, site of a devastating building collapse of a garment factory – telling licensees of Disney-brand items of its decision to phase out production there. Critics say pulling out is not the best response. The Walt Disney Co. is pulling […]
BY: Jeffrey M. Jones Patriotism, Jobs Primary Motivations for ‘Buying American’. Six in 10 say they would pay more to buy U.S.-made products PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-five percent of Americans say they recently made a special effort to buy products made in the United States. When asked why, these shoppers mainly cited patriotic or altruistic […]
Mitch Lipka May 3, 2013 (Reuters) – When Roger Simmermaker went shopping for clothes at a Florida mall in the mid-1990s, he wanted to buy American, but to his frustration, he couldn’t find anything made in the U.S.A. The experience motivated Simmermaker, an electronics technician by trade, to write “How Americans Can Buy American” – a guide […]
After years of building what they hoped would boost profits by enhancing overseas operations, many U.S. manufacturers have become disillusioned by the lack of return on investment they had anticipated. Instead of finding cost-saving benefits overseas through outsourcing, they are finding headaches, which have spurred a growing number of American companies to head home and […]
By Brad Plumer It’s hardly news when a U.S. firm moves its manufacturing operations abroad to China. But what about when a Chinese company sets up a factory in the United States? That happened in January, when Lenovo, a Beijing-based computer maker, opened a new manufacturing line in Whitsett, N.C., to handle assembly of PCs, tablets, […]
Gilbert B. KaplanFormer Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Hard as it may be to believe, there are forces in Washington that oppose the revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Who are they, and how do we counter their efforts? I think — roughly — […]
John D. Oravecz and Andrew Conte To avoid always having to stamp documents to verify shipments originated in the United States, a chamber of commerce near Chicago’s O’Hare airport leases its seals to busy exporters for $250 a year. It would be too much work for a chamber employee […]
Eight-story building collapses in Bangladesh Anna McMullenSpecial for CNN (CNN) — The sad fact behind the building collapse in Bangladesh in which hundreds died is that it isn’t an isolated problem. The story will leave the headlines at the end of this week but on Monday hundreds of thousands of workers will […]
If we want to attract today’s youth to manufacturing careers, We need to make manufacturing “cool,” so they will choose to be part of the modern advanced manufacturing. We need to show them what great career opportunities exist in the industry and expose them to the variety of career opportunities in […]
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The following is being released by New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.:Senators are asking President Obama to apply the Berry Amendment to athletic footwear so that manufacturing jobs can be created in the United States and military trainees receive American-made goods rather than […]
Getty Inages Ansuya HarjaniAssistant Producer, CNBC Asia China’s disappointing economic growth that came in at 7.7 percent in the first quarter, when the market was expecting an expansion of 8 percent, is leading to a loss of confidence in the outlook for the world’s second largest economy. “Slowing first […]
Can “strategic plans” for different communities help a manufacturing renaissance? (AP) Jim Tankersley When the factory jobs disappear, what comes next? That’s one of the most important economic questions America has confronted over the last decade-plus – where are the new industries, the new big ideas, the new jobs […]
Philip LeBeauCNBC Auto and Airline Industry Reporter Walk onto the shop floor at Prince Industries in Shanghai, China and it looks like most other manufacturing plants in this country. It’s busy running two shifts, cranking out components that will be shipped to major manufacturers like Caterpillar, Siemens, and Honeywell But change is in the […]
The incentive helped seal a deal with Toyota to move nearly all production of the Lexus ES luxury vehicle to Kentucky.
The goods and equipment used in clean energy projects purchased or paid for by federal taxpayer dollars would have to contain 85 percent American-made content, if a bill proposed by Central Valley Rep John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, makes it into law. “We know that clean energy is an absolutely essential […]
Al Bredenberg Many feel that having U.S. consumers and businesses and especially the government buy exclusively American-made products would support domestic jobs and bolster the U.S. economy. But many others argue that “Buy American” policies are restrictive and could do more harm than good. Critics of “Buy American” often refer to such policies as protectionist […]
Everette Phillips Reshoring is getting a great deal of hype. Some see it as evidenceof a new renaissance of American manufacturing. Some see it as hope for reducing long term unemployed. Some see it as a business opportunity to sell manufacturing-related equipment, software, and services in the US. And some see it as a business […]
In the nine years of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch awards program, the manufacturing sector has played a leading role, although its numbers fluctuated. In recent years, it is back with a vengeance, accompanied by successful companies in technology and other industries. In the early years, manufacturing companies […]
