Faced with rising costs, General Electric is moving production of its new energy-efficient water heater halfway around the world. The country it’s leaving? China. The one it’s bringing 400 jobs and a newly renovated factory? The United States. A small but growing band of U.S. manufacturers — including giants such as General Electric (GE), NCR (NCR) and Caterpillar (CAT) — are turning the seemingly inexorable offshoring movement on its head, bringing some production to the U.S. from far-flung …

Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple’s iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three years, to cope with rising labour costs.

Sonic Manufacturing Technologies announces the launch of a new project (Installation of Solar). This gives Sonic a unique differentiation of being a socially responsible company. PRWeb/h3> Sonic Manufacturing Technologies is proud to be an environmentally conscious EMS company. Sonic Manufacturing Technologies has installed a solar system on its roof top. “We will be independent of the grid and completely self-sufficient in a three-year period,” the President of Sonic, Kenneth Raab stated….

“Sonic commits to continuous improvement and innovation”. Accompanying this commitment is the responsibility that we have to be at the cutting edge with processes for all new types of packages that are constantly coming out in the market place. View the letter from Linear Technology Corporation recommending Sonic as the preferred assembly supplier for their specific module products. This just fortifies Sonic’s commitments for Best in Class: Customer Service Quality Performance Productivity C…