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While some competitors sent production overseas and saw quality suffer
Accurate Metal Fabricating kept making it in American and Jeff Flock joins us from the
Chicago company that kept the jobs here
and are finding their customers are coming back jeff, why is that?
They are being rewarded because of those issues
as Aaron Kamins who is one of the owners of Accurate
Metal Fabricating
tells us quality issues has been one of the reasons why companies are coming back.
This is a cabinet used in their automotive abrasives market.
This was made in China
brought back into this country due to
quality issues
logistics issues you can tell it is
a large box
It makes sense to bring it back here to the United States.
Also, this is a union shop , you are paying union wages here despite that
you can compete with a Chinese company because of as you say because of good
quality, logistics
sometimes intellectual property gets stolen in China. We have a number of customers who
have
had their properties stolen in china They have decided I'm moving it back to the United States.
I want to protect my investment here. Walk me through the plant floor.
A lot of people think manufacturing is
dying in the United States.
Not in places like this in the United States where you can still compete.
What I am looking at here, this looks like cut sheets of metal.
Is this the housing for a paper shredder? Yes, these are
sheets of metal that will be fabricated into the paper shredders that we sell.
Let's walk back over here and take a look at. You are cutting metal here as well.
The way you compete
the way you compete is the technology of this
machinery can almost top the mass numbers of people in China.
That's right, a machine like this laser allows us to manufacture parts
here
without the expensive tooling
And basically, if you can draw it, we can build it.
These machines are able to hold tight tolerances
It's a great story to see jobs
actually returning here to the u_s_ as As you can see, 200 jobs, right here
with a product that used to be made in China, now back in the United States.
If we keep buying
Made in the USA Jeff, we will keep seing
new jobs come here. Jeff Flock, thanks so much for showing us
yet another fascinating story