This will be my last article as NADCA Chairman and I will be moving on as of December 31st, 2011 at which time Bob Dathe will take over the Chair position for 2012-2013.
The past two years have been packed with a lot of substantial changes for NADCA which I believe help make NADCA a better trade association and provide a higher level of support to the membership. Read More
“Made in the USA, Again: Manufacturing is expected to return to America as China’s rising labor costs erase most savings from Offshoring”
No, this is not a title from a Michael Moore movie but the title of a press release published early this summer by The Boston Consulting Group. BCG is a global management consulting firm and a leading advisor on business strategy. The company just completed a strategic study concluding there will be a manufacturing renaissance within five years in the United States.
“You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone for the times they are a changin’” (Bob Dylan, 1964).
We are truly living today in a fast paced, dynamic environment and Dylan’s lyric nearly 50 years ago couldn’t be closer to the mark on many aspects of our lives from the instant communications of tweets and texts to the forms of doing things we once took for granted such as reading a newspaper or book electronically. Who would have thought we would see the decline of magazines, newspapers, bookstores, and music CD stores with the expansion of the digital age.
Leonard Cordaro is President of Premier Die Casting and Chairman of North American Die Casting Associaiton. Learn more about Leonard here.
