The U.S. trade deficit has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, marking a major 16-year milestone. After decades of manufacturing decline, some economic indicators are finally starting to move in a different direction.
General Motors is pouring $6 billion into U.S. manufacturing in a single year, including major investments in Midwest plants and domestic vehicle production. One of America’s most iconic automakers appears to be doubling down on building in America.
Nvidia is investing up to $3.2 billion with Corning Inc. to help build American-made optical components for the AI boom. One of the world’s hottest technology companies is betting big on a 175-year-old American manufacturer.
Walk into your grandfather’s garage and you’ll probably still find American-made tools that work perfectly after 40 years. Somewhere along the way, America stopped building products to last — and most people barely noticed it happening.
Stanley Black & Decker is closing its last manufacturing plant in New Britain, Connecticut — the city once known as “Hardware City.” Nearly 200 years after helping build America’s industrial identity, one of the country’s most iconic tool makers is walking away from the town that made it famous.
California growers crossed the half-million-acre mark for the first time ever with the 2025 crop — cementing America’s status as the No. 1 pistachio producer on the planet. The bag of pistachios on your counter is quietly one of the great American manufacturing wins of the last fifty years.
Novartis has officially finalized the location of its seventh and final new U.S. manufacturing and R&D facility — completing the single largest American expansion in the company’s 130-year history. The medicine in your cabinet is coming home.
OpenAI-backed 1X Technologies just opened America’s first vertically integrated humanoid robot factory in Hayward, California — with plans to ship 10,000 NEO home robots in the next twelve months. Every part designed and built on U.S. soil.
American startup Tandem PV just opened a 65,000-square-foot Fremont factory making next-generation perovskite-silicon solar panels — a higher-efficiency technology built right here in California to challenge foreign solar dominance.
Apple just upped its U.S. commitment to a staggering $600 billion over four years — bringing iPhone glass to Kentucky, AI servers to Houston, and 20,000 new American jobs in R&D, silicon, and engineering.
