Tag Archive for: Manufacturing

Innovation and Hard Work Made America Great
Guest post by Monica Gomez
America has always been known as the "land of opportunity." But opportunity doesn't knock unless you work hard for it. While tycoons and businessmen may have shaped the oil, steel, and auto industries, the reality…

SoftWear Automation, Creating U.S. Jobs by Revolutionizing the Textile Industry
The SewBots have arrived and they are bringing manufacturing back to the United States. SoftWear Automation, in Atlanta Georgia, has developed robotic technology for the textile industry to automate sewing, significantly reducing manufacturing…

WTO Attacks Commonsense Country of Origin Labels
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that mandatory country of origin labels (COOL) rules for meat and poultry that went into effect in 2013 still ran afoul of the global trade rules. The WTO’s compliance panel decided that the goal…

Manufacturing: If You Can Make It Here, Don’t Make It Anywhere Else
People are often surprised when I tell them that my company produces 100 percent of its products here in the United States. After all, my firm, WallMonkeys makes custom wall decals at a time when cheap vinyl stickers fill the aisles at…

Manufacturers Advise Peers to Open Doors and Minds to Millennials
With American manufacturing on an upward trajectory, what will it take to sustain its momentum? Karen Norheim, Executive Vice President, American Crane & Equipment Corporation and Tracy Tenpenny, Partner, Tailored Label Products (TLP),…

Military Will Now Buy 100% American Flags
Rep. Mike Thompson announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson’s legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the…

The Story behind Starbucks Community Tables, Made in the USA
A group of Army Reservists in uniform sit around a community table in a Starbucks near a military base. With coffee cups close, they pour over planning papers. Their attention is focused on the task at hand; unaware the large table they’re…

Butterball to Revive Former Raeford Turkey Plant
Garner-based Butterball LLC will take over a turkey plant formerly occupied by House of Raeford, bringing hundreds of poultry processing jobs back to Hoke County, officials said Thursday.
Butterball plans to hire 367 people at the 200,000-square-foot…

Is America Ready for “Made in the U.S.A.” Clothing?
While the reshoring tide is undeniably rising, the prospect of clothing and apparel manufacturing returning to the United States remains uncertain. Back in the 1960s, about 95% of clothing worn in the U.S.A. was also made here. Today the opposite…

Economic Manufacturing Quantities: The Right Amount and the Right Locations
Does your manufacturing firm have enough facilities creating the optimum number of products in the right locations? As manufacturing abroad became viable, the siting options became innumerable. Now, already difficult decisions are becoming more…