Despite Biden’s Subsidies, Arizona Semiconductor Plant Facing New Delays
Yang Jie and Yuka Hayashi of The Wall Street Journal report a setback in Biden's favorite project to rebuild chip manufacturing in the U.S. They write:
Taiwanese...
Labor Costs Rise – Are Robots Standing Ready?
Nora Eckert of The Wall Street Journal tells her readers that expensive new union contracts are causing automakers to look to an old friend...
EV Battery Supplier Drops Plan for Factory in Oklahoma
River Davis of The Wall Street Journal is reporting that site conditions and potential subsidies coupled with uncertainty in EV business growth caused Panasonic...
U.S. Manufacturing Flexing Its Muscles
Colin Grabow of the Cato Institute is reporting that the United States remains a manufacturing powerhouse. He writes:
It has become conventional wisdom among many...
The War Machine’s Manpower Problem
No, I'm not talking about the U.S. military's failure to recruit its intended numbers of new servicemen, but the labor shortages plaguing the military-industrial...
Fashion Flees China
American fashion companies are shifting their operations away from China. In Sourcing Journal, Chelsea Dobrosielski reports that a survey of the fashion industry conducted...
Why Can’t America Build Anything Anymore? A Sad Lesson
Stanley Black & Decker, a storied American tool brand, wanted to build wrenches in America, but failed to do so profitably. Here's the sad...
Swiss Company to Build New Solar Cell Facility in Colorado
Swiss solar cell manufacturer Meyer Burger is building a new production facility in Colorado Springs. Aldo Svaldi reports in The Denver Post:
Meyer Burger, a...
American Companies Paying More Attention to India
As tensions with China rise, American businesses are spending more time considering India as a new location for manufacturing. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently...
America Experiencing a Factory Building Boom
After COVID-19 supply chain struggles raised red flags about dependence on imports from China and elsewhere, many companies are building new production facilities in...