Archive for the ‘China’ Category
Promoting a reshoring strategy
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
We've been seeing more evidence that North American manufacturers are benefiting from a reshoring trend. What's driving reshoring? The biggest factor is that the cost premium of making things in North America is disappearing -- or at least shrinking significantly....
Are US customers shunning Canadian suppliers?
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
This is the first I've heard of this problem, so maybe it's an isolated case. But a Winnipeg, Manitoba, thermoformer, profile extruder and rotational molder says some of his potential customers in the United States are telling him they'd rather...
An inside look at Foxconn
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
It's rare to get a look inside Foxconn International, so I was excited to see John Biggs of TechCrunch.com is writing about his visit to the company's Foxconn City factory in Shenzhen, China. Biggs is writing a series of posts...
America likely to see ‘Manufacturing Renaissance’
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Here's some good news for U.S. manufacturers -- a new report from Boston Consulting Group titled "Made in America, Again: Why Manufacturing will Return to the U.S." According to the report, which was released Aug. 25, the return of manufacturing...
Q. What’s still made in America?
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Manufacturing is alive and well in North America -- more on that later. But I always get a kick out of companies that serve odd or unusual niche markets. How about bowling balls, CDs and chopsticks, for example? Those great...
Banning bags kills jobs, won’t help the environment
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
After my post yesterday about the bag ban debate in California, Plastics News staff reporter Mike Verespej pointed out another column on the topic worth sharing with blog readers. Kevin Kelly, president of the California Film Extruders and Converters Association,...
China moves full speed toward EVs
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
After decades of R&D -- but little commercial progress -- the world seems to be on the cusp of a green car revolution. And the market that's moving the fastest just might be China. Yang Jian, managing editor of Automotive...
110-year streak over for US manufacturing?
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Reports that China will overtake the United States as the largest manufacturing nation in the world are getting a lot of attention this week. And why not? The U.S. took the No. 1 spot from Great Britain in the 1890s,...
Plastics get ‘The Daily Show’ treatment
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Is there comedy gold in plastics molding and extrusion, and "backshoring" plastics processing from China? Absolutely. Just check the clip below from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." Jon Stewart's show does a great job creating tongue-in-cheek news reports that mimic...
Did Haitian turn down a deal?
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Did Chinese plastics machinery major Haitian International Holdings Ltd. turn down an offer to buy a stake in an overseas competitor? That's the story from the Xinhua News Agency, which reported the item in a feature story about the tough...