Mitchell Metal Products Wins Award
They receive the first National Reshoring Award for their efforts in bringing manufacturing back home to the United States.
Posted: October 23, 2017
Mitchell Metal Products (Merrill, WI) received the first National Reshoring Award in recognition of their success in bringing manufacturing back home to the United States. The award, given by The Reshoring Initiative and the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA; Cleveland, OH), honors a company that has effectively reshored products, parts or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating or machining. Mitchell Metal Products was selected after using reshoring to complete more end products with less lead time. In 2016, they manufactured a cultivator handle subassembly, increasing the production volume from 4,500 units made overseas to 30,000 units made in Wisconsin.
“We are thrilled and honored to receive this award,” said Tim Zimmerman, the president of Mitchell Metal Products. “By utilizing the total cost of ownership approach pioneered by The Reshoring Initiative, we have won a number of value-added contracts and brought work back home. We are proud to be delivering high quality products to our customers and creating good jobs here in Wisconsin. Right now, eight percent of our workforce is employed because of the products we have helped to reshore.”
“I was delighted that the winning product was a relatively conventional item, instead of being an advanced aerospace or electronics component,” said Harry Moser, the founder and president of The Reshoring Initiative. “Their success demonstrates that large portions of offshored work are eligible to be reshored.”
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