Barriers to American re-shoring

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Q&A article with chief executive of software-as-a-service provider Ultriva about the challenges facing US manufacturers who want to relocate production to the United States. Chief amongst those, according to Narayan Laksham is the skills gap that has come about as a result of the lack of manufacturing jobs over the previous decades. That issue is compounded by the fact that manufacturing regularly struggles to attract the best and brightest minds from younger generations who are more inclined to look at Wall St and the law for careers.