Manufacture This

The blog of the Alliance for American Manufacturing

Must Reads

Dec 19 2024
Made in America By Scott Paul

More Factory Jobs Will Ease America’s Economic Anxiety

Domestic manufacturing is a big part of the answer to the stress that defined the last election.

Dec 18 2024
Made in America

The American-Made Eyewear Worn by Actors, Astronauts and Even Presidents

Dec 16 2024
Manufacturing

The Top Five Manufacturing News Stories of 2024

Dec 13 2024
Trade

Senate Finance Committee Shouldn’t Rush Consideration of ITC Nominees

The Build Back Better Blueprint

Dec 18 2020

Steel Overcapacity: Trump Performed Triage. Can Biden Heal the Wound?

America’s steel industry is vital to our national security and critical infrastructure. But it remains threatened by global overcapacity, and COVID-19 has only made things worse.

Dec 17 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

The United States Can’t Build Back Better Without Investing in American Workers

Dec 16 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

What Do Black Factory Workers Want from the Incoming Biden Administration?

Dec 15 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

Renewed Interest in Made in America Was a Boon to Small Manufacturers During COVID-19. But Will It Continue?

Made in America

Dec 19 2024
Made in America By Scott Paul

More Factory Jobs Will Ease America’s Economic Anxiety

Domestic manufacturing is a big part of the answer to the stress that defined the last election.

Dec 18 2024
Made in America

The American-Made Eyewear Worn by Actors, Astronauts and Even Presidents

Dec 12 2024
Made in America

Want to Know How American-made Your 2024 Model Automobile Is?

Dec 11 2024
Made in America

How Roy Toy Made a Made in America Comeback

Trade

Dec 13 2024
Trade By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch

Senate Finance Committee Shouldn’t Rush Consideration of ITC Nominees

There’s been years of delays on new ITC commissioner appointments. It would be a mistake to rush in three new members in the final moments of the current congressional session.

Dec 06 2024
Trade

The EU’s Growing Its Domestic Clean Energy Supply Chain. Now is Not the Time to Let Ours Crumble

Nov 21 2024
Trade

China Commission Recommends Ending Beijing’s Normalized Trade Status

Nov 18 2024
Trade

Master Lock’s 2024 Factory Closure in Wisconsin Shows How NAFTA is Still Betraying American Workers

Buy America

Aug 07 2024
Buy America By Matthew McMullan

Probe Finds Issues with Enforcement of Buy America Rules in Controversial SEPTA Contract

A U.S. Department of Transportation Investigation revealed weaknesses in the procurement guidance given to CRRC MA.

May 10 2024
Buy America

EPA Inspector General Says the Agency Needs to Do More to Track Buy America Waivers

May 07 2024
Buy America

Memo to Massachusetts: It’s Time to Buy American

May 02 2024
Buy America

Just Steel! Catching Freedom! Domestic Product! The Names of the Horses in the 2024 Kentucky Derby are on Point

Workforce

Mar 27 2023
Workforce By Jeffrey Bonior

Filmmaking Competition Aims to Get Young People Interested in Manufacturing Careers

The “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing” contest in Pennsylvania asks middle schoolers to make videos that promote manufacturing as a career pathway.

Jan 21 2022
Workforce

Closing the Factory Floor Gender Gap

Oct 07 2021
Workforce

Democrats Discover Where They’ve Lost Voters: In Factory Towns

Oct 06 2021
Workforce

How Can Manufacturers Recruit More Women?

National Security

Oct 21 2024
National Security By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch

Congressional Labor Caucus Urges “Swift Conclusion” in Shipbuilding Investigation

Seventy Members of Congress ask the Biden administration to “consider strong and effective remedies” to rebuild America’s languishing shipbuilding sector.

Oct 07 2024
National Security

Members of Congress Urge New Mexican President to Address Threat Posed by Chinese Connected Autos

Feb 07 2024
National Security

Proposed Rule Aims to Close a Glaring Gap in Freight Rail Security

Jan 10 2024
National Security

Yet Another Report Finds that the U.S. Defense Industrial Base is in Real Bad Shape

Infrastructure

Nov 15 2024
Infrastructure By Matthew McMullan

Will Infrastructure Funding Get Cut by the Incoming Congress?

Talk about penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Sep 26 2024
Infrastructure

Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Stop Companies with Ties to CCP from Receiving Tax Dollars to Build School Buses

Sep 10 2024
Infrastructure

The Factory Boom is Drawing in Even More Domestic Investment

Jul 22 2024
Infrastructure

Cleveland-Cliffs Will Repurpose a Shuttered Tin Mill in West Virginia into an Electrical Distribution Transformer Plant

Jobs

Dec 06 2024
Jobs By Matthew McMullan

Manufacturing Jobs Haven’t Done Much in 2024

And despite a surge in factory construction, there are significant headwinds for factory job growth in 2025.

Oct 22 2024
Jobs

There are More Factory Jobs Now Than Before the Covid-19 Pandemic, New Study Confirms

Aug 26 2024
Jobs

Lifetime Show Shines a Spotlight on Military Veterans Forging a New Career with U.S. Steel

Jun 20 2024
Jobs

Tupperware’s U.S. Factory Closure is the Latest Example of Workers Paying the Price for Poor Management Decisions