As companies “tiptoe” back to the United States from overseas, the “Made in USA” label should grow more common. However, ambiguous rules are costing some manufacturers hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and legal fees. So what’s the problem? The coveted “Made in USA” does not always mean the same thing to companies as to the Federal Trade Commission. Read more
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Is Under Armour Made in the USA a possibility? Apparently, yes! Read more
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As Halloween approaches, parents can’t help but buy costumes and crafts to make the event special for their children. Putting makeup is a popular choice for completing the entire Halloween getup, but now parents are warned to take extra caution in buying cosmetic products for kids. Read more
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When one is presented with change, many begin to feel a sense of insecurity. When a company decides to invoke change, that precise sensation can be overwhelming for its employees. This apprehension rippled through ACE Metal Crafts (ACE) when its executives partnered with Toyota to enhance the company’s lead time and production methods. Read more
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Wondering why Under Armour couldn’t make some products in U.S.? Read more
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Some firms have slowly been moving operations back to the U.S. Will the new TPP trade deal undo the progress? Read more
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TPP – Food safety has been a major issue in the United States for years. Not because the food we produce is bad, but because much of the food that is imported from countries like China and Vietnam is severely hurting people in the United States. Our food safety regulations are strict to ensure healthy foods, however poor countries have much lower food safety standards than we do. Read more
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Liberty Tabletop – There are many signs that the fortunes of the century-old plant, now owned by Sherrill Manufacturing, aren’t what they once were, but among the starkest are the dozens of discolored concrete patches that line a stretch of the cavernous factory floor. They mark the holes where drop hammers were ripped out and […]
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Sherrill Manufacturing, Sherrill, NY – FOR DECADES, competition from China has crumpled American industries like tin cans, throwing hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
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When Toyota came to Kentucky 30 years ago, it changed the way business was done in the Commonwealth. Read more
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Wal-Mart is making a big deal out of the fact that much of its merchandise is “Made in the U.S.A.” The company is two years into a 10-year plan to spend some $250 billion more on products from U.S. factories and even hosts an annual summit on domestic manufacturing. Read more
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Fast Fashion – a term used to describe cheap and affordable clothes which are the result of catwalk designs moving into stores in the fastest possible way in order to respond to the latest trends. Read more
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“American manufacturing is back!” breathlessly exclaim the ebullient cheerleaders in locales such asForbesand theBoston Consulting Group. But while U.S. manufacturing may have bounced back slightly from Great Recession-lows, the reality is that America’s manufacturing recovery remains tenuous. On thisNational Manufacturing Day, policymakers can and should be doing much more to stimulate the growth and competitiveness of America’s manufacturing economy. Read more
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Are you up to date on all of the latest technology? We all try but most people are not, so if you answered “no”, you’re in good company. Read more
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Sherrill, NY – Bob James wasn’t ready to give it up after nearly 30 years of making countless forks, spoons and knives at the same factory in this small Central New York community known as The Silver City. Read more
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California long required that any manufacturer wanting to say that a product is made in America must, in fact, have a product that’s made in America. Read more
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I think every brand out there should be a sustainable brand. If you’re not thinking about the future, especially the future outside of just your fashion brand, you shouldn’t be taking on the responsibility of creating products; the impact your work has on this earth is undeniable. Read more
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After years of meeting demands for ever cheaper prices, many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers are saying no to new margin-squeezing storage fees and a payment schedule that could delay for months how quickly some are paid. Read more
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Inside every dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine is a little valve that directs the flow of water. For decades, most of these valves have come from a factory in the northwestern corner of Illinois, but not after today.
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It’s a standard part of the current public policy discourse that raising the minimum wage won’t have much, if indeed any, effect on the number of jobs available to Americans to do. Read more
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“Project to Create Jobs in Construction, Manufacturing, Tourism & Retail in Buffalo Niagara” Read more
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Shanghai (AFP) – Plans for a Boeing factory in China have been submitted to the government in Beijing, state-run media reported Tuesday ahead of President Xi Jinping’s US visit, where he will tour one of its plants. Read more
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Molly Goodall’s store on Etsy, the online crafts marketplace, started as a creative solution to a parenting problem. Read more
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Perdue and LNK Partners announced today that Natural Food Holdings, including the well-known Niman Ranch® brand, is being purchased by Perdue. Read more
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Call centers are coming back to America, and flyover country is proving to be the biggest beneficiary in new jobs and overall boosts to local economies. Read more
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When the leader of the free world comes calling, most people jump. When the Obama administration first contacted Michael Araten, in November 2012, he hesitated. Read more
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Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014. When a cow was found to have died from the neurogenerative disease, which humans can contract by eating meat from sick animals, in 2012, a number of countries suspended beef imports from Brazil as a precaution. The United States was not among them. Read more
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Manufacturer’s Made in USA Definition Costs Big Bucks
in Made in USA, MANUFACTURERS, ManufacturingAs companies “tiptoe” back to the United States from overseas, the “Made in USA” label should grow more common. However, ambiguous rules are costing some manufacturers hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and legal fees. So what’s the problem? The coveted “Made in USA” does not always mean the same thing to companies as to the Federal Trade Commission. Read more
Under Armour Planning to Make Local for Local
in ApparelIs Under Armour Made in the USA a possibility? Apparently, yes! Read more
Halloween Makeup From China May Contain Lead, Other Toxic Chemicals
in Consumer ProductsAs Halloween approaches, parents can’t help but buy costumes and crafts to make the event special for their children. Putting makeup is a popular choice for completing the entire Halloween getup, but now parents are warned to take extra caution in buying cosmetic products for kids. Read more
ACE Metal Crafts Surpasses Outsourcing Stigma
in Automotive, Innovation, Jobs, Manufacturing, Production, Small Business, Sustainability, TechnologyWhen one is presented with change, many begin to feel a sense of insecurity. When a company decides to invoke change, that precise sensation can be overwhelming for its employees. This apprehension rippled through ACE Metal Crafts (ACE) when its executives partnered with Toyota to enhance the company’s lead time and production methods. Read more
Chinese Textile Manufacturers Found Cheap New Place for Outsourcing
in American MadeMade—at least partially—in the USA.
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Under Armour, Why Not Made in USA?
in American Made, CLOTHING -MEN & WOMEN, Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Production, ReshoringWondering why Under Armour couldn’t make some products in U.S.? Read more
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Manufacturing in USA
in Economy, Government, Jobs, Manufacturing, TPPSome firms have slowly been moving operations back to the U.S. Will the new TPP trade deal undo the progress? Read more
TPP – 4 Ways it Will Affect Your Dinner Plate
in Food Products, SeafoodTPP – Food safety has been a major issue in the United States for years. Not because the food we produce is bad, but because much of the food that is imported from countries like China and Vietnam is severely hurting people in the United States. Our food safety regulations are strict to ensure healthy foods, however poor countries have much lower food safety standards than we do. Read more
Liberty Tabletop Sets a Made in USA Table
in Domestic Sourcing, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, ProductionLiberty Tabletop – There are many signs that the fortunes of the century-old plant, now owned by Sherrill Manufacturing, aren’t what they once were, but among the starkest are the dozens of discolored concrete patches that line a stretch of the cavernous factory floor. They mark the holes where drop hammers were ripped out and […]
Sherrill Manufacturing: Getting The Edge on China
in American Made, Domestic Sourcing, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, ProductionSherrill Manufacturing, Sherrill, NY – FOR DECADES, competition from China has crumpled American industries like tin cans, throwing hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
Read more
First American-Built Lexus ES 350 to Come Off Assembly Line
in Automotive, Jobs, Made in USA, ManufacturingWhen Toyota came to Kentucky 30 years ago, it changed the way business was done in the Commonwealth. Read more
FTC Closes Probe of Walmart Over Misleading Made in USA Labels
in Consumer Products, Government, Made in USA, Manufacturing & Sourcing, Not Made in USA, WalmartWal-Mart is making a big deal out of the fact that much of its merchandise is “Made in the U.S.A.” The company is two years into a 10-year plan to spend some $250 billion more on products from U.S. factories and even hosts an annual summit on domestic manufacturing. Read more
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Fast Fashion
in CLOTHING -MEN & WOMEN, Domestic Sourcing, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Production, Slave Labor, Sourcing, SustainabilityFast Fashion – a term used to describe cheap and affordable clothes which are the result of catwalk designs moving into stores in the fastest possible way in order to respond to the latest trends. Read more
Manufacturing Day Highlights Opportunities to Bolster US Manufacturing
in Domestic Sourcing, Economy, Government, Jobs, Made in USA, MANUFACTURERS, Manufacturing, Manufacturing & Sourcing, Production, Reshoring“American manufacturing is back!” breathlessly exclaim the ebullient cheerleaders in locales such as Forbes and the Boston Consulting Group. But while U.S. manufacturing may have bounced back slightly from Great Recession-lows, the reality is that America’s manufacturing recovery remains tenuous. On this National Manufacturing Day, policymakers can and should be doing much more to stimulate the growth and competitiveness of America’s manufacturing economy. Read more
Atlanta: Marketing Capital of the World
in Innovation, TechnologyAre you up to date on all of the latest technology? We all try but most people are not, so if you answered “no”, you’re in good company. Read more
Sherrill Manufacturing, America’s Remaining Flatware Maker, Emerges From Bankruptcy
in American Made, Domestic Sourcing, Economy, Jobs, Made in USA, ManufacturingSherrill, NY – Bob James wasn’t ready to give it up after nearly 30 years of making countless forks, spoons and knives at the same factory in this small Central New York community known as The Silver City. Read more
California Now Allows Firms to Tell Consumers a Made in USA Lie
in American Made, Consumer Products, Domestic Sourcing, Made in USA, Made in USA Certified, Manufacturing, Public Policy, SourcingCalifornia long required that any manufacturer wanting to say that a product is made in America must, in fact, have a product that’s made in America. Read more
Sustainable: Why and How Every Fashion Business Can Be One
in Consumer Products, Domestic Sourcing, Economy, Education, Jobs, Manufacturing, Marketing Your Brand, Production, Small Business, Sourcing, SustainabilityI think every brand out there should be a sustainable brand. If you’re not thinking about the future, especially the future outside of just your fashion brand, you shouldn’t be taking on the responsibility of creating products; the impact your work has on this earth is undeniable. Read more
Ford Shifts Truck Production from Mexico to Ohio
in Automotive, Economy, Jobs, ManufacturingFord’s heavy duty pickup trucks which used to be built in Mexico started rolling off an assembly line in Ohio this week.
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Walmart’s Suppliers Are Finally Fighting Back
in Domestic Sourcing, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Production, Reshoring, WalmartAfter years of meeting demands for ever cheaper prices, many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers are saying no to new margin-squeezing storage fees and a payment schedule that could delay for months how quickly some are paid. Read more
Hanover: Just Another Factory Closing
in Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Made in USA, ManufacturingInside every dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine is a little valve that directs the flow of water. For decades, most of these valves have come from a factory in the northwestern corner of Illinois, but not after today.
Read more
$15 Minimum Wage Threatens 5.3 Million US Manufacturing Jobs
in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Public PolicyIt’s a standard part of the current public policy discourse that raising the minimum wage won’t have much, if indeed any, effect on the number of jobs available to Americans to do. Read more
Project To Create Jobs. Made in America Store Expanding
in Consumer Products, Domestic Sourcing, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing“Project to Create Jobs in Construction, Manufacturing, Tourism & Retail in Buffalo Niagara” Read more
Boeing Planning To Build a Factory in China?
in Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, OutsourcingShanghai (AFP) – Plans for a Boeing factory in China have been submitted to the government in Beijing, state-run media reported Tuesday ahead of President Xi Jinping’s US visit, where he will tour one of its plants. Read more
Etsy Welcomes Manufacturers to Artisanal Fold
in Consumer Products, MANUFACTURERS, Manufacturing, Small Business, SourcingMolly Goodall’s store on Etsy, the online crafts marketplace, started as a creative solution to a parenting problem. Read more
Perdue to Buy Natural Meat Maker & Chipotle Pork Supplier Niman Ranch
in Consumer Products, Food ProductsPerdue and LNK Partners announced today that Natural Food Holdings, including the well-known Niman Ranch® brand, is being purchased by Perdue. Read more
Call Centers: Reshoring Instead of Offshoring
in Jobs, Made in USA, Reshoring, SERVICE PROVIDERS, TechnologyCall centers are coming back to America, and flyover country is proving to be the biggest beneficiary in new jobs and overall boosts to local economies. Read more
California Governor Loosens Definition of Made in USA for Products
in American Made, Consumer Products, Domestic Sourcing, Made in USA, ManufacturingCalifornia companies must now actually make their products in the U.S. to call them American-made.
Mostly. Read more
How Made in USA Manufacturing Put K’NEX Back on Track
in Consumer Products, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Production, Reshoring, Sourcing, Technology, ToysWhen the leader of the free world comes calling, most people jump. When the Obama administration first contacted Michael Araten, in November 2012, he hesitated. Read more
The Not So COOL Reason You Won’t Know Where Your Steak Came From
in Country of Origin (COOL), Food Products, World Trade Organization (WTO)Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014. When a cow was found to have died from the neurogenerative disease, which humans can contract by eating meat from sick animals, in 2012, a number of countries suspended beef imports from Brazil as a precaution. The United States was not among them. Read more