Of course, there are plenty of American durable goods manufacturers, or more specifically, there are plenty of owners and leaders of these companies that aspire to keep production in the United States, but feel as if they've hit a wall. They include pragmatic and logistical considerations about supply chain distribution, concerns about intellectual property theft, the loss of brand reputation and customer loyalty, as well as what a former guest on the series called feelings of economic patriotism. The motives behind these companies decisions are varied. This season of Made in the USA has focused on manufacturers that are at different points on a journey to bring back or keep production within the United States.
Pete Zelinski, Editorial Director of Modern Machine Shop: I'm Pete Zelinski. Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that it would be the sort of bearded Amish guys, all of our the parts that they make for us, they're not running off the grid.īrent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Machine Shop: Welcome to Made in the USA, the podcast for Modern Machine Shop magazine that explores some of the biggest ideas shaping American manufacturing. And I mean, at a certain point, you're not going to really convince some people.
We'll explore it, but at a certain point, it becomes a kind of a moral imperative. We tell everybody hey, if you know of a small simple single cylinder carbureted engine made in the States, you let us know. Richard Worsham, Co-Founder of Janus Motorcycles: We do get lots of questions from people like how in the world do you expect me to shell over handmade American price? And then it has this Chinese motor in it.
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