“We Reshored Long Before Tariffs” – Titan Abrasive featured in IndustryWeek

In 2013, I made a decision that many people told me didn’t make a lot of financial sense.

At the time, sourcing overseas was standard practice in manufacturing. Components were cheaper. So were raw materials and labor. If you wanted to maximize short-term margins, the path was obvious: Build it somewhere else and ship it back.

But I chose a different path.

As a manufacturer of industrial abrasive blasting rooms—systems that are used to process aerospace components, nuclear motors, military hardware and other mission-critical equipment—I believed that where and how we built our products mattered just as much as what we built. So we made a deliberate decision to become a full USA company.

Not partially domestic. Not “assembled in America.” Not engineered here and fabricated overseas. Fully sourced. Fully manufactured. Fully assembled in the United States. Steel. Structural components. Electrical systems. Controls. Fabrication. Assembly.

At the time, there were no tariff advantages. No policy tailwinds. No incentives. In fact, our production costs increased. But we did it anyway.

Read the full article, “We Reshored Long Before Tariffs and Never Looked Back,” and why I made the decision to become a full Made in USA company, at Industry Week.