Posted 3486 days ago
According to Forbes, Lumber Liquidators sources almost half of its laminates from China. It also saw these laminates make up 13% of its sales in 2014. A test of 3,400 laminate floors from the company showed that 97% contained levels of formaldehyde that were considered safe.
Posted 3521 days ago
Justifying its action, Isis said it did so because the chicken was "Made in USA". The jihadist group further revealed that the chicken were "slaughtered unlawfully", hence, the boxes containing the meat were set on fire.
Posted 3522 days ago
Let’s get back to basics. Made in USA products, fair trade and buying American. Not only will our economy recover, but so will our sense of patriotism.
Posted 3538 days ago
Things you may take for granted, but it was AMERICAN ingenuity that gave the world a better place to live.
Posted 3549 days ago
According to a new study by consulting firm BDO, although the cost of manufacturing remains lower in overseas regions such as Asia, 43 percent of retail chief financial officers said that North America provides the most attractive sourcing opportunities for 2015.
Posted 3572 days ago
The manufacturing of sewn products has been slow to automate because, unlike metal or wood, fabric is flexible. But researchers have developed software that can locate individual threads inside the fabric and track their positions like a grid pattern.
“That’s how we know where the fabric is,” said SoftWear CEO K.P. Reddy. "It might flex. It might bend. It might fold. We still know where those intersections of those threads are and are able to track it.”
Posted 3572 days ago
“Manufacturing as a word is diluted, “ said Rainville. “We have competition that say they have a couple products that say made in America and they use that to make people believe that perhaps all of their product is”.
However, their products are made everywhere but.
“Online is a little more sketchy because online retailers don't really pay much attention to the rules”.
Posted 3576 days ago
There could be some stagnation in the number of new people buying local food. Or as the USDA puts it, "a plateau in consumer demand for local food."
Rising demand in the last several years has lead to the opening of many new markets. There were 8,268 farmers' markets operating in 2014, up 180 percent since 2006.
Posted 3576 days ago
Later this year along the banks of the James River outside Richmond, Virginia, a paper products maker based in northeastern China will begin construction on a new U.S. manufacturing plant. The factory will churn the region's straw and corn stalks into household products including napkins, tissue and organic fertilizer—all marked "Made in the USA."
Posted 3576 days ago
Great video piece from ABC News