Articles Tagged with ''reshoring''

CLARKSDALE, MS—HVAC equipment maker AirGuide Manufacturing is moving some factory jobs from Mexico to an assembly plant here.

GREENVILLE, OH—Whirlpool’s assembly plant here, which produces about 1.5 million Kitchen Aid mixers and blenders annually, is expanding and bringing some jobs from China. The plant has hired 70 people this summer, and plant leaders expect to hire another 50 in about a week.

BANNOCKBURN, IL—Electronics manufacturing operations with a total value of at least $2.5 billion are expected to be brought to North America in the next three years, according to a new study published by the IPC—Association Connecting Electronics Industries.

LONDON—To protect themselves against natural disasters and economic downturns, manufacturers are bringing production back in-house.

WASHINGTON—Three technologies will propel the reshoring trend: robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—According to a Rutgers University professor, U.S. manufacturing will see a "strong resurgence" due to seven factors.

WASHINGTON—More jobs will be coming back to the United States from offshore locations during the next eight years, according to a new report by CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate executives.

Offshoring has, quite simply, gutted the American middle class. But it took more than the presence of several hundred million unemployed Chinese to make offshoring feasible. Some are technological, some are cultural.

BOSTON—ZeeVee Inc., a developer of high-definition video products, has moved its overseas contract manufacturing operations to Massachusetts from China.