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.
U.S. Steel is firing up the Gary Tin Mill in northwest Indiana again — adding 225 American manufacturing jobs and bringing domestic tin production back online to serve U.S. food packaging, aerosols, and farmers.
Azure Printed Homes just cut the ribbon on a 25,000-square-foot 3D-printed home factory in Denver that aims to produce up to 7,000 houses a year — using recycled American materials and creating dozens of new manufacturing jobs.
The Federal Trade Commission just announced enforcement actions against three companies — a flag maker, a dartboard company, and a footwear brand — for falsely labeling their products “Made in USA.” Here’s why it matters for every American shopper.
