Tag: reshoring

GE Appliances to invest $3B in US manufacturing. The funds will help the front-load washer manufacturer continue to reshore production from Mexico and China. Published Aug. 14, 2025. By Sara Samora, Reporter. Features an image with the caption: A general view of the production line at GE appliances on Aug. 13 in Louisville, Kentucky. The company aims to reshore production of its GE Profile brand washer and dryer combo and UltraFresh front-load washer line from China at the Louisville facility. - Michael Hickey for GE Appliances, a Haier company via Getty Images

Reshoring

Greenfield & Brownfield Expansions

A historic shift towards reshoring is underway, with over $1 trillion in new U.S. manufacturing commitments. However, turning these bold announcements into successful operations is a complex, multi-year challenge. Kormac provides the specialized expertise to bridge this gap. We help manufacturers navigate greenfield expansions to turn ambitious plans into reality….

Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity with Speed and Precision Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains. Kormac enjoys meeting our client partners' facility needs, whether they be greenfield or brownfield, domestic or international. We address the technical, tactical, and cultural aspects of facility transition to ensure strategic alignment, schedule attainment, fiscal adherence, enhanced resilience, and performance sustainability. See PDF for more.

Cost Parity

Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity

Reshoring is gaining momentum, but achieving cost parity remains a challenge. Our concise guide outlines key strategies for minimizing upfront investment and achieving production cost targets in domestic operations….

Painless facility expansions & transitions

Reshoring

Facility Moves, Expansions, & Transitions

The “Reshoring Renaissance” is picking up steam! Several of Kormac’s manufacturing client partners have asked for our assistance in supporting greenfield and brownfield U.S. plant expansions. Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains….

Global Supply Chain Global Supply Base Diversification As in all forms of investment, diversification reduces risk. Tariff talk and geopolitical uncertainty are prompting plans for greater supply and footprint diversification. We enjoy helping our client partners build secure, flexible, and adaptable supply chains suited for our increasingly complex global business environment.

Supplier Diversification

Global Supply Chain

From China+1 to “friendshoring,” supplier diversification is hot. Tariff talk and geopolitical tensions are prompting plans for greater geographic supply diversification. We enjoy helping our client partners build secure, flexible, and adaptable supply chains suited for our increasingly complex global business environment….

2024 Maze

Feeling a little lost in 2024?

While 2023’s anticipated recession never arrived, geopolitical uncertainty poses continued challenges to forecasting, planning, and execution….

Rationalization Excess facilities, equipment, products, systems, or platforms? Check your baggage. It's hard to get anywhere fast when you're dragging legacy assets. Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines. Kormac has decades of experience in helping organizations to reassess, redesign, and rationalize operational and product portfolios.

Rationalization

Check your baggage

Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines….

Nearshoring to Mexico Nearshoring: ¡Vamos a México! Driven by federal incentives, geopolitical risk, and pandemic aftershocks, restoring and nearshoring continue apace. [Screenshots of various article titles about restoring and México] Kormac's senior operational experts have diverse experience designing, launching, and operating manufacturing facilities south of the border

Nearshoring to Mexico

Nearshoring: ¡Vamos a México!

Driven by federal incentives, geopolitical risk and pandemic aftershocks, reshoring and nearshoring continue apace. For manufacturers compressing supply chains, nearshoring to our southern neighbor provides a comfortable, cost-effective option. Companies of all size are feeling the pull – even 88% of small and medium sized businesses are “reshuffling their supply...
Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling - Reduced manpoower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling

Reduced manpower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

As US manufacturers consider reshoring, they’re often prompted to reevaluate the configuration of existing facilities, including storage. We help such leaders develop detailed plant scenarios and models to guide recommendations on combining, consolidating, redesigning, and/or automating plants, including estimated costs and savings for each scenario. To follow is a chemical...
Assembly Magazine. October 19, 2022 by Harry Moser Geopolitical Forces Drive Record-Breaking Reshoring

Reshoring

Geopolitics Drive Nearshoring & Reshoring

“Geopolitical risk and the advantages of domestic manufacturing are motivating more and more companies to move production back to the U.S., driving job announcements to record-breaking highs.” Assembly Magazine’s October assessment reflects our own experience: reshoring’s proximity to end-use customers provides compelling relief from logistical issues, risks, and costs. Kormac...