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Yet again another food scandal is among us as the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently agreed to allow four chicken processing plants in China to raise and slaughter their chickens in the U.S., export them to China for processing, and them ship them back to the U.S. These chickens will then be sold on every […]
Manufacturers of products made with recycled materials can’t claim offerings were “Made In USA” unless they can show that the materials originated domestically, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) making it the “Made in USA” claims tricky for recycled materials.
It’s time for America’s annual holiday study of contrasts. First comes Thanksgiving, a heritage slightly scarred by glitzy parades, football, turkey fryer incidents, and overeating, but still imbued with volunteerism, thankfulness, and family. Then comes Black Friday.
by Alliance for American Manufacturing Get to the stores before it’s all gobbled up.
Ford Adding 850 New Jobs To Build 2015 F-150. Ford announced today it will add 850 new jobs in Dearborn to build the all-new 2015 F-150 pickup that is the automaker’s most advanced pickup in 66 years. The new hires will be sprinkled among the various facilities that make up the Ford Rouge Center in […]
September 26, 2014 – (Manchester, CT) Bravo of Manchester, CT recalls select lots of Bravo Turkey and Chicken pet foods for dogs and cats because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella can affect animals eating the products and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not […]
New Balance—the iconic U.S. sneaker maker—has long marched to its own drummer on “Made in USA” labels.
Lincoln Logs, the popular building toy created nearly a century ago by a son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is coming home to the U.S.
American Giant: Made in America. With the prevalence of outsourcing factory work to Bangladesh and China, fewer retailers can use those three short words on popular clothing.
Training shoes, the last part of U.S. military uniforms that isn’t required to be 100 percent U.S.-made and -sourced, could soon go all-American. How New Balance could be set to profit.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Tesla finds home in Nevada! Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Thursday that Nevada won a high-stakes battle with four other states for Tesla Motors’ coveted battery factory, but the win comes with a hefty price tag — up to $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives over 20 years that […]
Travis Hardware in Florida sells American flags from several U.S. vendors. The flags themselves are also made in the USA. (Photo: Craig Bailey, Florida Today) MELBOURNE, Fla. — Nothing screams USA pride more than a skimpy red, white and blue bikini.But does it matter that the $32.98 swimsuit mentioned above, and sold at Target, […]
A number of positive factors came to light in April to give credence to the fact that the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has been subject to severe attrition since the early 1980s, is rebounding impressively. Since that time, manufacturing, in concert with construction, had been a major mainstay of America’s solid economic underpinnings, with their […]
Diamond Gusset is proud to announce that it has moved all its production to a new 27,000 square foot facility. It is a modern, clean facility that offers a great working environment. Much of the equipment has been updated.As this facility is also located in Blue Ridge GA., we were able to retain all existing employees […]
Walmart has pledged to buy an additional $250 billion in US-made products. But finding quality, low-cost US made goods is proving a challenge. How Walmart is acting as a catalyst for ‘Made in the USA’ manufacturing.
Will the STEM skills gap close if more women join the STEM workforce?
A new U.S. News annual index, sponsored by Raytheon, measures key indicators of STEM activity in the U.S. Despite some signs of improvement, student aptitude for and interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics has been mostly flat for more than a decade, even as the need for STEM skills continues to grow, according to the U.S. News/Raytheon […]
PetSmart kicks off the Inspiration Waggin’ tour with a bus filled with pups on Friday, May 9, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for PetSmart/AP Images) PetSmart is the latest major pet food retailer to say it will stop selling dog and cat treats made in China because of ongoing fears that […]
More than 1,000 dog deaths may now be linked to toxic jerky treats, according to a recent update from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The agency said that since 2007, there have been almost 5,000 complaints of pet illnesses related to the treats. The majority of the symptoms reported include gastrointestinal or liver disease, […]
After years of hand-wringing about the expense of making things in America, a new report from the Boston Consulting Group says that’s all changing. The shift is due in part to stagnant wages — at least that’s potentially good for something — and to a greater extent, the abundance and declining cost of natural gas. In […]
A Vietnamese protester holds a banner in a rally against Beijing’s deployment of an oil rig in the contested waters of the South China Sea, outside the Chinese Embassy on Sunday, May 11, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The deployment of the rig has a triggered a tense standoff in the ocean and raised fears of […]
STRONG SELLER: Single’s “Janessa” jumpsuit When Gala Inc. founders Galina and Michael Sobolev began shifting their production for their contemporary line,Single, back to the United States about six years ago, there were several compelling reasons to bring manufacturing home. FAMILY BUSINESS: Galina & Michael Sobolev, pictured with their sons, Evan (far left) and Julian (far right). […]
Frank Krejci, president and CEO of Strattec Security Corp. Master Lock LLC, Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co. and Whirlpool Corp. have all re-shored products back to the U.S., but more manufacturers are starting to lay the groundwork to come back home, according to a presentation by Deloitte Development LLC. The reason — U.S. manufacturing labor costs have remained flat […]
A bill introduced by state Senate President Stephen Sweeney would require Port Authority projects to use domestic steel. The agency was criticized last fall for allowing a combination of Chinese and American steel to be used on the Bayonne Bridge roadway project. Since then the contractor has switched from Chinese to Italian steel. (John Munson/The […]
U.S. manufacturing becoming low cost over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher energy costs have diminished China’s long-standing edge over the United States. So has a boom in U.S. shale gas […]
We need to save the internet.Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon want to control what we can and cannot do online — and they’re about to get their wish. Their lobbyists and lawyers have taken over the FCC — the agency meant to keep them in check. Now, the former lobbyist running the FCC is about to announce new rules […]
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978. Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study — 2009, […]
The good news from the April jobs report is that the recovery is the same as it’s always been. The bad news is that, well, the recovery is the same as it’s always been — and some workers are giving up as they realize that. As you may have noticed, this winter was pretty cold. So cold, […]
