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(AMM) 'Re-shoring' effort looks to bring manufacturing back to US
March 25, 2010 - 20:32 GMT
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NTMA
U.S. contract manufacturers are stepping up efforts to bring work that has gone overseas back to the United States.
Harry C. Moser, the industry's point man on the initiative, is promoting a "re-shoring" as one way to help erase the United States' pre-recession annual trade deficit of $800 billion, which he estimates has resulted in about 12 million former jobs being lost to the country.
"I'm totally dismayed and I'm not going to take it anymore," Moser said this week about losses to the U.S. manufacturing base. The comments were made at the Westec 2010 Exposition, where he was also interviewed. The manufacturing and machine tool exposition is sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Mich.
As part of their re-shoring program, the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and Precision Metalformers Association (PMA) are sponsoring a "purchasing fair" in Anaheim, Calif., on May 12 that will highlight the capabilities of...
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