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Consumers Seek U.S. Manufacturers for Quality
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FBN's Jeff Flock visits a U.S. company that can overtake Chinese manufacturers because of quality and logistics.
- Duration 2:35
- Date Oct 27, 2011
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FBN's Jeff Flock visits a U.S. company that can overtake Chinese manufacturers because of quality and logistics.
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When He percent right now.
Aren't -- some competitors sent production overseas is up quality suffer.
Accurate metal fabricating -- it making it in America and Jeff Flock joins us from a Chicago company.
-- -- -- jobs here and they're finding their customers are coming Jeff why is that.
They are being rewarded they are being rewarded glory because of those issues as I came and so it was one of the owners of accurate metal fabricating.
Tells us quality issues and and for example this this what I'm saying here this is a 3 am box this is -- candidate used in their automotive abrasives.
Market this was made in China this was made in China brought back into this country.
Quality issues -- just -- issues the large.
Obviously large box.
You know British leadership but and so that makes sense to bring it back here and also this is a union shop your -- union wage here despite that.
You can compete with the Chinese company because it as you say because a good quality because we're just fix.
And because also intellectual property sometimes get stolen and -- when that's -- we have a number of customers who have.
Had their property stolen.
In China.
They decided and -- affect the US -- protect all my investment here walk me through the plant floor because it's great a -- to watch.
You know how people think manufacturing guys dying in the US.
Not so much.
In places like this where you can still compete.
And I'm looking here for example -- Pieces of what that's that -- -- Housing for a Paper shredder.
Yes these are.
The sheets of metal that will be fabricated into the paper's writers that we don't walk back here and take a look at it if I can.
This is this is where they're doing that right there you're also cutting.
Middle here as well.
And the way you compete is the technology of these this machinery.
Can almost top the end of the mass numbers of people in -- But that's right him a machine like this a laser allows us to manufacture parts here without the expensive to link.
And basically you can drive we can build it here and -- available.
-- -- Backlog Hart Scott Moritz -- it's a great story to see jobs actually returning here to the US and you can see.
200 jobs right here with a product that used to be made in China and now made back in the US.
And if we keep buying made in the USA death toll keeps.
In jobs come here at least that's the hope Jeff Flock thanks so much for -- us yet another facet.