An increasing number of news articles are reporting on the increasing strength of manufacturing in the USA (and globally, actually).
After years of American companies shipping jobs and contracts overseas, some are choosing local manufacturers or even “re-shoring” – bringing those jobs and work back to the United States.
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One-fourth of more than 850 companies surveyed by MFG.com, a global online marketplace for manufacturers looking to source custom parts, returned work to North America from overseas in the last quarter of 2010.
The “decrease” in manufacturing in the USA has been exaggerated as I written for year (manufacturing has grown steadily over the last few decades in the USA). It is true though manufacturing in some plants has moved overseas. Over the last few years more and more stories report on American companies moving manufacturing back to the USA that they had moved offshore previously.
The Institute for Supply Management most recent survey reports a surge in US manufacturing to its highest reading in nearly seven years.
Related: Manufacturing Cars in the USA – Leading Manufacturing Countries Globally (1980-2009) – Global Manufacturing Employment Data – 1979 to 2007