Manufacturing

Sep 24 2013
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Element to make even more American-made TVs

Element Electronics began making TVs in the U.S. in early 2012, and remains the only company to do so to date.  Now the company is set to begin production at a new facility in South Carolina in...
Aug 20 2013
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Made in Your City: Back to School Edition

On August 30, 2012, I posted the piece below. Regular readers of this blog, Alliance for American Manufacturing's Facebook fans, and Twitter followers responded very positively to this post, so...
Aug 19 2013
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Grown in America, Processed in China, Sold in America: A Case of Globetrotting Chickens

  According to a Consumer Reports poll, 92 percent of Americans want to know where their food comes from. At the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) we wonder how many of those people...
Aug 16 2013
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That Awkward Moment when an American-Made Beer Company Gives Away a Made in China Hat

The baseball cap has been a part of the wardrobes of Americans for over a century. If taking into account ancestral versions of the wardrobe mainstay, the hat dates back to the mid-1800s when the...
Jul 24 2013
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Celebrating Bagpipe Appreciation Day? Keep it Made in the USA!

This Saturday is Bagpipe Appreciation day, which gives people a special reason to celebrate their Scottish heritage, or just to impress friends with an offbeat talent. But no matter how you honor...
Jul 17 2013
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Growing your own food? Use American-made tools!

This summer, make sure the equipment you in your vegetable gardens or with flowers is Made in the USA. Barrington, IL-based Norton’s USA sells not only a great selection of gardening supplies,...
May 07 2013
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Report Says U.S. Military Dangerously Dependent on Foreign Suppliers

Brigadier General John Adams, U.S. Army (Retired) appears at a press conference on Capitol Hill unveiling a new report that finds the U.S. military is overly reliant on foreign suppliers. New Report...
Apr 11 2013
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NEW INDEX: Which cars are really Made in USA?

The GMC Acadia places first in the Kogod Made in America Auto Index. | Photo by Abdullah AlBargan via Flickr American University’s Kogod School of Business has put together an index that...
Mar 04 2013
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In New Orleans a nascent fashion community proves new industries CAN be built in America

By Lauren Donia Editors' note – This piece originally ran on 9/7/12. In honor of this week's New Orleans Fashion Week we've re-posted it.Both Jolie & Elizabeth and Blackout are...
Jan 25 2013
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Fashion Friday: Wool coats made in a city that hasn’t seen a snowstorm since 1976.

We’ve finally gotten to that time of year…the time where one must make his or her personal fashion statements with outerwear. Poppy von Frohlich (PvF) is here to help! The San...