Like any manufacturer, your organizational goals can be summed up into three words: profitability, growth, and scale. These expectations only continue to increase as your business moves along the maturity curve, with mounting pressure to make smart investment choices that lead to the right type of gains and mitigate risk.

If East and Gulf Coast ports are forced to shut down, the U.S. could see inventory shortages, higher costs at grocery stores, and months-long container backlogs.

Although Chinese-made software isn't common in American cars, the proposal is seen as a "targeted, proactive" move, said U.S. commerce secretary Gina Raimondo. 

As AI continues to spread throughout the manufacturing sector, its impact will only intensify.

This comes just a day after the UAW filed unfair labor practice charges against Stellantis with the National Labor Relations Board. 

The scope for regulatory lenience is low, and the 2025 rules could accelerate capacity restructuring within the industry.

This piece summarizes valuable reshoring and nearshoring insights from a recent discussion between JLL Industrial’s Executive Managing Director, Greg Matter, and Senior Vice President Ada. It discusses the trends, benefits, challenges and other factors U.S. manufacturers should know as they consider bringing their own operations and facilities stateside.

China’s directive comes at a time most major Chinese carmakers are looking to localize manufacturing so as to avoid tariffs on Chinese-made EVs.

The union is pushing for a 7% wage increase over a 12-month period, as well as an additional €170 ($188) per month for new trainees.

Nearly half of respondents (47%) believe the primary benefit to having a more diversified supply chain is reducing the risk of disruption from various events such as natural disasters.