[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Parade Magazine: photos of Pyrex manufacturing in Charleroi, PA
Tony Patti
gaffer at glassblower.info
Mon Sep 2 19:14:01 EDT 2013
The Parade Magazine insert in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer is very
interesting, the front cover and inside shows Pyrex manufacturing,
highlighting the fact that it is made in the USA, and specifically in our
PA-NJ neighborhood of Charleroi, PA.
http://digitalpages.whig.com/pdfEdition_show_pdf.php?file=09012013_01P.pdf
http://www.parade.com/150071/joekita/the-return-of-made-in-the-usa/
Here is the first part of the article:
Good news: Americans are making things again, from cars to watches to socks.
What's behind the manufacturing upswing-and what it means for American
labor.
Sometime in the next year, the line outside your local Apple Store may not
be for the latest iPhone or iPad-it may be for a new desktop Mac that was
assembled in Texas, with components from Illinois and Florida, using
equipment produced in Kentucky and Michigan.
Besides being "Designed in California," the computers will be "Made in
America." And while those Macs will represent only a small slice of Apple's
total manufacturing, which remains firmly embedded in Asia, it feels good
that such an iconic American company is dipping a toe in back home.
In the 1990s, American manufacturing took a hit. When China opened itself to
the world 20 years ago, its labor costs were so low (less than 50 cents an
hour) that U.S. companies couldn't resist moving production there, says
Willy Shih, a Harvard Business School professor and the coauthor of
Producing Prosperity. "Even if they had to ship all their components
overseas and then ship everything back, the savings were huge." Soon,
companies offshored component production as well, until eventually entire
supply chains were relocated to China.
But starting in the mid-2000s, Chinese labor costs began to rise 20 to 30
percent a year. Fuel prices escalated, too, making it much more expensive to
ship products globally. And as the recession forced many U.S. industries to
reorganize, American labor costs and productivity rates became competitive
again.
http://www.parade.com/149659/parade/the-return-of-made-in-the-usa-take-a-gli
mpse-inside-american-manufacturing/#made-in-the-usa-slideshow-06
http://www.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/made-in-the-usa-slideshow-0
6.jpg
http://www.parade.com/149659/parade/the-return-of-made-in-the-usa-take-a-gli
mpse-inside-american-manufacturing/#made-in-the-usa-slideshow-11
http://www.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/made-in-the-usa-slideshow-1
1.jpg
Tony Patti
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