Onshoring Project Management

Our Firm Supports Design and Build Onshoring Projects

US policy is creating huge incentives for manufacturers to move operations onshore to the United States and we are ready to help. We are the natural partner for your design and build onshoring project. We are assisting North American manufactures in developing injection molding plant building projects including all critical inputs for a business plan to obtain bank funding or to deliver your new manufacturing operation in a seamless project. We can deliver our partners for site selection, general contracting, facility building, equipment installation and integration. Everything you need in one place.

Our contacts in the industry have shared a huge trend in injection molded products. On-shoring of foreign produced products is underway on a massive scale. However, we’ve learned that on-shoring efforts by domestic importers are being delayed by issues including:

Difficulty in finding design and build firms knowledgeable on capital equipment
- Specification, Layout, Installation, Integration
Little to no in-house design and engineering expertise
Little to no in-house manufacturing or injection molding experience
Lack of tool ownership and access to the tool drawings and models
Not having relationships with local/domestic tool shops and molders

Additionally, the industry has been discussing the familiar drawbacks to foreign produced molded products for many years. Some of these drawbacks include:

Limited control of their vendor’s manufacturing processes and schedules which contributes to poor part quality and late deliveries
Limited availability of finished goods due to ongoing global plant shutdowns due to COVID
Perpetual increases in shipping costs

Based on our market studies, the issue that appears to be the deciding factor is shipping costs. Now that the ports are open again following COVID19, the cost inefficiencies are staggering. We had a client tell us that the shipping costs are much higher now than they were before COVID. And this was before tariff policies provided an added advantage to domestic manufacturing. Smaller high volume, high margin parts can probably absorb this inefficiency; but lower margin, medium-sized and larger parts can’t bear the costs. They need to be moved onshore to compete. Bryan Hauger Consulting is ideally positioned to provide a full suite of services to assist you in meeting your onshore project needs.

We have developed working relationships with Design/Build firms where we take care of the equipment and they take care of the building. We have mold makers with experience in design of complex and multi-cavity injection molds. We conduct our own DFM review, stress analysis, and mold flow analysis. We can connect you to North American molders with high-volume highly automated operations resulting in highly reproducible parts with low contributed labor costs. And now, we have a resin supply relationship which guarantees you can get the right resin for your application. High quality communications from the same time zone are important to avoid project delays, rework, or other issues. Of course, the reduction in shipping costs and wasted time on complex logistics is a huge opportunity to create value.

Bryan Hauger Consulting’s team of professionals dedicates themselves to supplying outstanding quality service resulting in the finest customer experience. If you are looking for support for your onshoring project, contact Bryan Hauger Consulting today!