Shift Changes | Alliance for American Manufacturing

Job retraining program benefits Michigan workers, companies and communities

• Anonymous

• 08/11/2011

When businesses partner with local community colleges to develop and fund job retraining programs, everybody wins. Case in point: Michigan’s Delta College’s Fast Start Program.

Today on ShiftChanges, we’d like to highlight a program that is helping unemployed workers in Michigan experience their own personal “shift changes”--- Delta College’s Fast Start Program.

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Shift Changes: British automaker to set up shop in former Ford town

• Anonymous

• 08/04/2011

When a Ford assembly plant closed in Hazelwood, Missouri five years ago, locals worried that their community would never recover. Fortunately, three-year-old British auto maker Emerald Automotive—drawn to the city for its central location and highly skilled automotive workforce—plans to open a new manufacturing facility in this once booming manufacturing community.

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What happens to a community when a major manufacturer shuts its doors?

• Anonymous

• 07/21/2011

Though in recent Shift Changes posts we've highlighted companies that have shifted production back to the U.S, today we’ll be focusing on what transpires when a company shifts production out of a community:

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Shift Changes: Sleek Audio abandons its Chinese Factories

• Anonymous

• 07/14/2011

Faced with rising shipping costs and poor quality control in China and an increasingly competitive business environment in the the U.S., many small manufacturers are saying “zài jiàn” to their Chinese factories and bringing production back home:

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Ebonite brings bowling pin production back to the U.S.

• Anonymous

• 06/30/2011

Bowling: a classic American pastime that has long been an iconic part of our culture. In today's Shift Changes post we’d like to highlight a company that is working hard to keep the bowling industry rolling along—and to keep its products made in America: Ebonite International.

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Can a U.S. company manufacture solar panels and "thrive" in the global marketplace? YES, and Stion is showing how.

• scapozzola

• 06/09/2011

No one should doubt the ability of U.S. manufactures to compete in the global economy-- even in such tough, niche sectors as clean energy technology.

Case in point: California-based Stion Corporation.

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The secret of his success: HOW DID TERRY MCAULIFFE BUY A CHINESE COMPANY AND MOVE IT BACK TO THE U.S.?

• scapozzola

• 06/02/2011

We’ve previously reported on the encouraging stories of manufacturing that is coming back to the U.S.

Today, we're introducing a new, weekly blog feature, ‘Shift Changes,’ that will keep you updated on positive developments in U.S. manufacturing. These includes both new plant openings and the really encouraging stories of firms that have decided to move operations back to the U.S. from China.

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