Friday, Feb 27 – NPR Morning Edition
Check out the Planet Money story on specialty beef jurky and an artisan spring manufacturer. The take away (below) similar to what we concluded in Brew to Bikes Full story here
“Even big manufacturers — like Toyota, General Electric, Dow Chemical — are focusing more of their business on custom-making products for customers willing to pay more. It’s one of the best alternatives to competing with China and other low-wage countries, which have perfected the commodity business of turning out lots and lots of identical products as cheaply as possible. Forget that model. In America, we can focus on craft. That’s where the money is, and that’s where the hope lies for American manufacturing.”
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Reblogged this on khanhthinhpham and commented:
thanks