Cleveland, Ohio – Hoping to draw more attention to companies that have brought manufacturing jobs back to the United States, the Reshoring Initiative has partnered with the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) to offer the first National Reshoring Awards – one offered to buyers and another offered to suppliers.
The awards are targeted at reshored parts or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating, or machining. To be eligible for the award, the reshoring work must have occurred between January 1, 2012, and August 1, 2017, and the work must have come back from outside North America to North America.
“In 2016 about 27,000 more manufacturing jobs were brought back to the U.S. than were offshored,” said Harry Moser, founder and president of The Reshoring Initiative. “We anticipate that this award will motivate more companies to reevaluate their offshoring and see that it is often more profitable to produce or source domestically. We also hope that other associations will choose to support similar awards to show that their industries are now successfully reshoring.”
Applications must be submitted by August 1, 2017.
The awards will be presented in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 28, 2017, at Sourcing Solutions, a procurement program hosted by PMA. The event connects buyers and suppliers of metal stampings, tooling and dies, assemblies, and other fabricated metal parts.