WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The following is being released by New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.:Senators are asking President Obama to apply the Berry Amendment to athletic footwear so that manufacturing jobs can be created in the United States and military trainees receive American-made goods rather than […]
Getty Inages Ansuya HarjaniAssistant Producer, CNBC Asia China’s disappointing economic growth that came in at 7.7 percent in the first quarter, when the market was expecting an expansion of 8 percent, is leading to a loss of confidence in the outlook for the world’s second largest economy. “Slowing first […]
Can “strategic plans” for different communities help a manufacturing renaissance? (AP) Jim Tankersley When the factory jobs disappear, what comes next? That’s one of the most important economic questions America has confronted over the last decade-plus – where are the new industries, the new big ideas, the new jobs […]
Philip LeBeauCNBC Auto and Airline Industry Reporter Walk onto the shop floor at Prince Industries in Shanghai, China and it looks like most other manufacturing plants in this country. It’s busy running two shifts, cranking out components that will be shipped to major manufacturers like Caterpillar, Siemens, and Honeywell But change is in the […]
The incentive helped seal a deal with Toyota to move nearly all production of the Lexus ES luxury vehicle to Kentucky.
The goods and equipment used in clean energy projects purchased or paid for by federal taxpayer dollars would have to contain 85 percent American-made content, if a bill proposed by Central Valley Rep John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, makes it into law. “We know that clean energy is an absolutely essential […]
Al Bredenberg Many feel that having U.S. consumers and businesses and especially the government buy exclusively American-made products would support domestic jobs and bolster the U.S. economy. But many others argue that “Buy American” policies are restrictive and could do more harm than good. Critics of “Buy American” often refer to such policies as protectionist […]
Everette Phillips Reshoring is getting a great deal of hype. Some see it as evidenceof a new renaissance of American manufacturing. Some see it as hope for reducing long term unemployed. Some see it as a business opportunity to sell manufacturing-related equipment, software, and services in the US. And some see it as a business […]
In the nine years of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch awards program, the manufacturing sector has played a leading role, although its numbers fluctuated. In recent years, it is back with a vengeance, accompanied by successful companies in technology and other industries. In the early years, manufacturing companies […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill touted as a way to boost Florida’s manufacturing sector by extending a sales tax break passed its first test in a state House panel Wednesday, overcoming scattered objections that it amounts to a giveaway without guarantees it would stimulate job growth. The measure seeks to exempt Florida manufacturers from […]
