Ted Samson Companies are moving manufacturing closer to high-tech hubs to better protect intellectual property, serve customers For the first time in more than a decade, technology manufacturing jobs are on the rise in the United States, according to new research from Jones Lang LaSalle. The jobs aren’t surging back, per se; the research company predicts […]
Rockwell Automation viewed from the Milwaukee river Sophie Quinton Sailors on Lake Michigan know they’re approaching the south side of Milwaukee when they spot the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower. But the building beneath the tower acts as a marker of another sort: the structure originally built to be a manufacturing plant is now filled with […]
ABC News – Lenovo Paves the Way for Made-in-America Computers as North Carolina Facility Ramps Up Full Production (ABC News) JOANNA STERN Stephanie Nance places Microsoft stickers on new Lenovo ThinkPad computers. And not just any computers. They are computers that her mother Sharon Nance helped assemble. The mother-daughter team doesn’t work in China or at one of the infamous factories like Foxconn. […]
By JENNA WORTHAM and BRIAN X. CHEN Just like Apple, Google has caught the “Made in America” bug. Motorola Mobility, the handset maker acquired by Google, says its next phone, called Moto X, will be manufactured in the United States. Speaking at the All Things D conference in Southern California on Wednesday, Dennis Woodside, the head of Motorola, […]
Cathryn Gran NORRIDGE — Open barely two months, Boutique3 is striving to offer clothing and accessories made in this country. “We’re trying to stock all made-in-America labels,” said Carrie Ann Esposito, a Norridge resident and one of three partners in the business at Regency Plaza, 5050 N. Cumberland Ave. “We do our own buying, but […]
Steve Atkinson SAN DIEGO – Small businesses, it’s the backbone of America. But what if you couldn’t find investors to help you grow your American-made business unless you took your product overseas. A local business is facing that dilemma and 10News spoke with the owner who says that the company is now turning to the […]
Michele Nash-Hoff We now live in a globalized economy, and many people say it doesn’t matter where something is made. They say that the industrialization of third world countries is good because it has provided jobs for millions of people and raised their standard of living. American consumers have benefited from cheaper prices for the […]
Maria Pereira of Parsippany is shown in this 2011 photo sewing draw-string backpacks with ‘Made In Newark’ printed on them at Unionware, a company in West Newark. A new report from the Brookings Institution examines Newark’s manufacturing assets. (Star-Ledger file photo) Ed Beeson Newark has much of what it would take to undergo a new […]
Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY — The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico’s Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly discriminated against Mexico and […]
The recent Bangladesh collapse has raised an overall awareness on the safety being taken when manufacturers produce garments overseas. The All American Clothing Co, a USA made jean manufacturer is proving it can be done with safety and profit. El Paso, Texas was once considered the blue jeans capital of the world. According to the […]
