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💴 This Week in Manufacturing

If you wanted a snapshot of where U.S. manufacturing stands right now, this week delivered it—complex, contradictory, and absolutely consequential. Major OEMs are putting billions behind domestic production. Washington is redrawing the map of global chip flows. At the same time, EV battery plants are getting shelved and small manufacturers are still waiting for demand to show up on their shop floors. These aren’t isolated headlines—they’re connected signals in a larger shift.

The resurgence of U.S. manufacturing is real, but it won’t be smooth or evenly distributed. That’s why this newsletter doesn’t just track the big moves—it looks at what they mean for the 250,000 small manufacturers who actually build the backbone of American industry.

This week’s first podcast, from U.S. Manufacturing Today, reiterates the importance of America’s small businesses with our own Bret Boyd. The second podcast, from The Manufacturing Executive, discusses the connectivity needed among US producers and suppliers.

Our Social Video and Fun Fact detail changes in the US EV industry and the industry’s rising sales, respectively.

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⚙ Manufacturing Headlines

• Congress Must Preserve the MEP Program [Industry Week]

• TI makes $60 billion semiconductor investment for Texas, Utah [Chron]

• Tariffs Put Extra Pressure on Workers in Both China and the US [The Diplomat]

• How WorkSaver Tripled & Thrives in U.S. Manufacturing [Farm Equipment]

• US may target Samsung, Hynix, TSMC operations in China [Reuters]

COMMENTARY

♨️ Reshoring Is Happening and Resilience Must Follow

Major players are doubling down on domestic production, even as warning signs flash across key supply chains.

If you’ve been tracking American manufacturing lately, this past week offered a front-row seat to the competing forces shaping our industrial future. The headlines were big: a $4 billion reinvestment in domestic auto production, intensifying chip export controls targeting Chinese supply chains, and new signs of strain in factory output and EV battery demand.

Taken together, these developments highlight the tension at the heart of the U.S. manufacturing resurgence—a push to rebuild domestic capacity while navigating shifting global alliances, market volatility, and the realities of long-term transformation.

Upshot: The next phase of this manufacturing revival will depend on more than megaprojects and headlines.

FROM THE FEED

📱Lucid Acquires Nikola’s EV Factories

🤨Did You Know?

EV sales volume was up

11.4% YOY

totaling 294,250 sales in the first quarter.

^{Source: Car Edge}

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