A new wave of high-end ventures like watchmaker Shinola helps revive manufacturing in the Motor City.

The factory floor is silent but not empty. Dozens of workers dressed in crisp white lab coats, hairnets and matching Crocs are maneuvering dollhouse-size hand tools and manipulating minuscule parts to assemble wristwatches. With loupes to eyes, one line builds the movement–the timepieces’ quartz-powered brain. Another line does nothing but put the dials in place, while others set the hands, fix the case backs and lash the leather straps. This isn’t a clean room in Geneva or a Chinese factory in Shenzhen. These movements are taking place behind the floor-to-ceiling glass wall that separates Shinola’s Detroit he

Cambio de paradigma industrial

Nuevos datos confirman un cambio de paradigma industrial caracterizado, entre otros aspectos, por procesos de relocalización o "reshoring", que mencionábamos anteriormente en Elkarbide. Se trata del informe titulado "¿De la desindustrialización a la reindustrialización?" publicado por PIMEC (patronal que representa las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas y los autónomos de Catalunya), en el que se muestran desalentadores datos sobre la industria catalana.

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