Who is the Real Culprit Behind Globalization?
CPA Committee member Michael Collins looks at what made globalization what it is today and considers the big money barriers to rolling it back.
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Meet New CPA Board Member Julianna Keeling
Saving the planet, one to-go Container at a time, new CPA board member Julianna Keeling started her business like many entrepreneurs do – in her garage.
Should the Renaissance in American Manufacturing be a Top-Down or Bottom-Up Approach? Perhaps the Answer is Both
By: Greg Owens, Co-Founder and CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing Inc. We have entered a new post-pandemic phase in world economic order. Deglobalization is now upon us. It started with a relatively “slow impact” move to decouple from China. This was characterized by diplomacy followed by limited and low-percentage tariffs on certain Chinese goods. Two years of…
Roddey Dowd of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Wins CPA Industry Leader Award
A stalwart and a titan of American manufacturing, Roddey Dowd Jr., wins the Coalition for a Prosperous America’s Industry Leader Award.
A Return to American Made
The Last Word | A Return to American Made By Greg Owens Steel is in short supply in the U.S. and prices are surging, which drives up costs and squeezes profits. U.S. steel prices are 68% higher than the global market price and almost double China’s. The price gap is so wide that even with…
An ‘Inevitable Decline’ of U.S. Manufacturing? Here’s Another Way to Stop It.
CPA member Doug Berger started Industry Reimagined 2030 this year. Here is how he imagines it. Hint: he doesn’t think the government can fully protect us, or throw money our way forever. Something else has to be done.
Can a Few ‘Made in the USA’ Investors Slow the Tide of ‘Made in China’ E-Commerce
Entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban are putting real money on the line to build-up and promote domestic manufacturers instead of Asian ones. Will it be enough to slow a trillion-dollar goods deficit?
The Masks are Off and America is Getting Back to Normal: Lessons Learned – Buy American
Greg Owens \ Co-Founder and CEO; Sherrill Manufacturing Inc./Liberty Tabletop For many of us the last 12 months have been difficult if not tragic on a personal level and at work. In the true spirit of our country, Americans rallied and have gotten through perhaps the most difficult experience we have ever lived through. Now that we are…
Paul Revere’s Old Copper Company Warns: “The Chinese Are Coming!”
Rome, NY-based Revere Copper was started by Paul Revere. It’s still alive. Here’s what it’s up against.
From Giant Windmills to Peanut Butter Making, Optimation’s Got a Machine for That
By Kenneth Rapoza, CPA Industry Analyst New York-based manufacturing firm Optimation is an example of the unsung, anonymous tooling companies in the middle of the American supply chain that are needed to make everything from peanut butter factory equipment, to giant concrete bases for windmills. Without them, it would make more sense to build elsewhere…
