From Cars to Drones: Birdstop Taps Detroit’s Auto Supply Chain to Scale U.S. Manufacturing
While Silicon Valley is well-known as a mecca for the launch of flashy high-tech firms, and Detroit as the home of the older, more staid and much less exciting automotive…
Ford Announces Another $1B U.S. Investment 2 Days After Being ‘Blindsided’ by DOT
Yesterday, Ford Motor announced plans to build a new $1 billion state-of-the-art paint shop at its Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville as part of a modernization effort at one of…
California, Home to World’s 4th Largest Economy, Launches a “Made in California” Label
“Made in California,” a new statewide labeling and marketing program, was launched by Gov. Gavin Newsom to promote products that are “substantially made” in the Golden State. Eligible manufacturers that…
Sapporo to move some beer production from Canada to US after tariffs
Japanese brewer Sapporo says it will move some beer production from Canada to the US after new tariffs on Canadian beer took effect on Tuesday. The move follows the introduction…
Cyclospora Outbreak Followed Years of Declining FDA Foreign Inspections
A nationwide outbreak of cyclospora tied to contaminated lettuce has heightened safety concerns about imported food, while underscoring a longer-term trend: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch…
Hyundai Steel launches US$5.8B project to expand US manufacturing
Hyundai Steel has begun construction of a US$5.8 billion electric arc furnace (EAF)-based steel mill in Louisiana, marking a major investment in US manufacturing and adding new domestic capacity to…
Reshoring Turned the Lights Back on for Made-in-USA LEDs
North Dakota-based lighting company GoodBulb operates the only factory in the United States that manufactures A19 LED lightbulbs. With the recent launch of its Fargo operation, GoodBulb is proving that…
11 Brands You Didn’t Know Were Owned By Whirlpool
Chances are that you’ve heard of Whirlpool. After all, if you’ll excuse the pun, it is a household name. It’s the brand stamped on a whole world of household appliances,…
US Adds 162,000 New Jobs in August, Beating Expectations
Manufacturing picked up 16,000 jobs. The strong report also revised up job numbers for June and July by a combined 55,000, indicating that the U.S. labor market remains in a…
These websites say “We only carry made in the USA”
Most patriotic consumers wish it were simpler to find and buy American-made products, but it is often difficult and time-consuming to determine which products are made in the USA. Complicating…