From the Covid-19 pandemic to the recent Suez canal blockage by the Ever Given container ship, events have exposed significant weaknesses in supply chains across the globe. Add Brexit trade tensions and the threat of various global tariff impositions into the mix, and...
Apple has announced an acceleration of its US investments, with plans to make new contributions of more than $430 billion and add 20,000 new jobs across the country over the next five years. Over the past three years, Apple’s contributions in the US have significantly...
Predictability, security, resilience, automation, ESG, and yes, lower overall costs favor the return to the USA of previously offshored manufacturing and supply chains. Onshore or nearshore assembly, configuration and test is beginning to be deployed in several...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing is a strategic U.S. national asset that should never have been off-shored. Reliance on lower-cost manufacturing in Asia, particularly China, is a failed model that has been exposed by the pandemic. The supply chain review ordered by...
Two of the world’s largest EV battery manufacturers have reached a settlement that President Biden called “a win for American workers and the American auto industry.” The companies, SK Innovation and LG Chem, have been involved in a dispute...
U.S. manufacturing activity hit its highest point in more than 37 years in March, the Institute For Supply Management said Thursday. The last month alone marked the fastest rate of growth in the last 12 months, with the ISM index of national factory activity growing...
