Tag Archive for: Manufacturing

Manufacturer’s Made in USA Definition Costs Big Bucks
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…

ACE Metal Crafts Surpasses Outsourcing Stigma
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…

Under Armour, Why Not Made in USA?
Wondering why Under Armour couldn't make some products in U.S.?
When I consider what Kevin Plank, the CEO of Under Armour, has going on — running a global sports apparel company that broke $3 billion in sales last year; developing a new…

Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Manufacturing in USA
Some firms have slowly been moving operations back to the U.S. Will the new TPP trade deal undo the progress?
Not all of the dire predictions about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turned out to be true, but Ross Perot, who expected…

Liberty Tabletop Sets a Made in USA Table

Sherrill Manufacturing: Getting The Edge on China
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.
Beating China isn't easy, but Sherrill Manufacturing…

First American-Built Lexus ES 350 to Come Off Assembly Line
When Toyota came to Kentucky 30 years ago, it changed the way business was done in the Commonwealth.
On Oct. 19, it changed just a little bit more.
The Toyota complex in Georgetown, which produces Camrys, Avalons and Venzas, will unveil…

Manufacturing Day Highlights Opportunities to Bolster US Manufacturing
"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…

Sherrill Manufacturing, America’s Remaining Flatware Maker, Emerges From Bankruptcy
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.
He survived the plant's transition…

California Now Allows Firms to Tell Consumers a Made in USA Lie
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.
A new state law changes that — and makes it practically impossible for consumers to know…