U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️

Your go-to hub for news, insights, and industry conversations on U.S. manufacturing and reindustrialization.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

Imagine risking your freedom, your reputation, and your entire company's existence just to cheat the system on labor costs. Absolute clown behavior. 🤡

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

ICE has just confirmed that it ARRESTED THE EMPLOYERS of 48 illegal immigrants in South Carolina!!!

Both the Plant Manager and HR Coordinator for a casting company in Abbeville SC were ARRESTED and face years in prison.

IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?!!!!!

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

🚨During COVID, frontline workers were reusing single-use gloves and risking cross-contamination because America produced less than 1% of the nitrile gloves it needed.

That's what Maxter Healthcare spent $500 million to fix.

In Episode 59, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine speaks with Kevin Shutack, Nick Gilman, and Donny Chan about Maxter's effort to build America's first large-scale nitrile glove manufacturing facility and the realities of making reshoring work in practice.

What you'll learn:
✅ How watching the U.S. struggle to secure basic PPE during COVID turned a long-held vision into action
✅ Why Brazoria County, TX beat out New York, Florida, and a dozen other contenders
✅ How the facility produces 180-200 million gloves a month with almost no human hands touching the product
✅ Why domestic manufacturers are still being asked to compete with overseas pricing
✅ Why long-term government contracts matter more than government incentives

🎧 Listen now:
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/4XowxdVofN
👉 Spotify: https://t.co/No5DMEKTFl
👉 YouTube: https://t.co/pMY166uJ2H

[Veryable Ops @veryableops]

🇺🇸 What made America great wasn't handed to us. It was built. By workers. By makers. By people who showed up every day with their hands and their pride.

That's what we're fighting to bring back.

Manufacturing doesn't just build products. It builds the middle class. It builds towns, families, and a kind of dignity that comes from making something real. Decades of outsourcing and bad policy didn't just cost us jobs. They hollowed out communities and weakened the very foundation of American prosperity.

We believe rebuilding that foundation is one of the most important things we can do for this country. A stronger manufacturing base means more opportunity for workers and stronger communities across America.

That's why Veryable exists.

Learn more: https://t.co/fL8bHgFJAf

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

⚠️Everyone focuses on cost per unit. But almost nobody factors in what happens when the shipping lane closes, prices spike 30-50%, and your supplier puts you on allocation.

That's not a hypothetical. It's happening right now.

In Episode 59, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine speaks with the team behind Maxter Healthcare's $500 million bet to build America's first large-scale nitrile glove manufacturing facility in Brazoria County, Texas.

What you'll learn:
✅ How the Strait of Hormuz closure is already squeezing hospital supply chains in real time
✅ Why the lowest-cost supplier can become the most expensive option when the supply chain breaks
✅ What a fully automated, hurricane-resilient facility in Brazoria County, TX looks like at scale
✅ How watching the U.S. struggle for basic PPE during COVID turned a vision into a $500M decision
✅ Why long-term contracts matter more than spot buys when building domestic manufacturing capacity

🎧 Listen now:
👉Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/4XowxdVW5l
👉Spotify: https://t.co/No5DMELruT
👉YouTube: https://t.co/pMY166vgSf

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT

In this latest episode, brought to you by @veryableops , @Matt_Horine speaks with Kevin Shutack, Nick Gilman, and Donny Chan of Maxter Healthcare about the company's $500 million private investment to build America's first large-scale nitrile glove manufacturing facility in Brazoria County, TX.

The conversation doesn't shy away from the hard parts — why buyers wave the American flag until it's time to negotiate, why government contracts take longer than a manufacturer producing inventory can afford to wait, and why reshoring production doesn't eliminate exposure to global raw material price volatility.

What you'll learn:
✅ How watching the U.S. struggle to secure basic PPE during COVID turned a long-held vision into a $500 million decision
✅ What it took to find the right site and why Texas ultimately beat out NY, FL, and other contenders
✅ How a highly automated facility produces 180-200 million gloves a month
✅ Why securing long-term contracts (not spot buys) is the only way domestic manufacturers can justify the investment and scale
✅ What recent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz reveal about the fragility of critical supply chains

🎧 Listen now:
👉Apple: https://t.co/4XowxdVW5l
👉Spotify: https://t.co/No5DMELruT

[Veryable Ops @veryableops]

@RedBalloonWork 🇺🇸

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

⚠️The Strait of Hormuz closes and some U.S. hospitals suddenly start getting just 50% of their normal glove orders. That's how fragile the supply chain still is.

Now, one company is spending $500 million to make sure that doesn't happen again.

This week on U.S. Manufacturing Today, @Matt_Horine speaks with Kevin Shutack, Nick Gilman, and Donny Chan of Maxter Healthcare about the company's investment to build America's first large-scale nitrile glove manufacturing facility in Brazoria County, Texas, and what it actually takes to rebuild a critical manufacturing capability on U.S. soil.

Key topics:
✅ How COVID exposed America's near-total dependence on imported PPE and accelerated Maxter's push to build domestically
✅ Why Brazoria County won out over New York, Florida, and a dozen other sites
✅ Inside a 215-acre, fully automated facility producing 180-200 million gloves a month, and what's coming in future expansion phases
✅ Why the federal government is the anchor customer, and why long-term contracts are essential for domestic manufacturers to survive
✅ How the Strait of Hormuz closure is already putting hospitals on allocation and why just-in-time procurement is a liability

💡 Full episode drops tomorrow 📱 Follow the show so you don't miss it:
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👉 YouTube:
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[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

🔥 Episode 58 Is Live!

In this latest episode, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine connects a series of developments that together point toward a broader industrial shift already underway across the U.S.

What you'll learn:
🔹 What the DOJ container cartel indictment reveals about supply chain concentration risk
🔹 Why JetZero’s $4.7B aircraft factory signals long-term confidence in U.S. manufacturing
🔹 Why freight tightening increasingly appears structural rather than temporary
🔹 How tax policy changes are accelerating manufacturing investment
🔹 Why tacit manufacturing knowledge may become one of the defining constraints of the next cycle

🎧 Listen now:
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mkuSpofQMK
👉 Spotify: https://t.co/9jQ2EDQmLs
👉 YouTube: https://t.co/8eZ4IYtWMO

[Veryable Ops @veryableops]

@zanehengsperger 🫡

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

🚛 Carriers are rejecting more than 1 in 6 contract loads right now, and nearly 1 in 5 commercial trucks on U.S. roads is failing basic roadworthiness standards.

That means trucking capacity is being systematically removed from the market at the exact moment reshoring and industrial expansion are increasing freight demand.

In Episode 58, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine explains why this freight squeeze may be one of the clearest operational signals yet that the American industrial rebuild is no longer theoretical — and builds the case across a week of converging headlines.

What you'll learn:
✅ Why freight tightening increasingly appears structural rather than cyclical
✅ The DOJ supply chain cartel indictment and what it means for reshoring
✅ JetZero's $4.7B aircraft factory and what it signals about industrial investment
✅ How manufacturing tax policy changes are accelerating CapEx decisions
✅ Why tacit operational knowledge may become the defining bottleneck of the next industrial cycle

🎧 Listen now:
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mkuSpogoCi
👉 Spotify: https://t.co/9jQ2EDQUB0
👉 YouTube: https://t.co/8eZ4IYuuCm

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There's no place like the United States of America.

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

📦 While the world scrambled for shipping containers during COVID, the 4 companies controlling 95% of global supply were installing cameras to make sure nobody on their side broke the cartel.

That's what concentrated supply chain dependency looks like when the pressure is on.

In Episode 58, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine argues that story is exactly why the reshoring case has never been stronger — and why, with capital committed, factories breaking ground, and the tax code finally aligned, the American industrial rebuild is no longer a forecast. It's in progress.

Key topics:
✅ The DOJ supply chain cartel indictment and what it means for reshoring
✅ JetZero's $4.7B aircraft factory and SendCutSend's $1B+ valuation
✅ Why the tariff inflation doomsday scenario didn't materialize in CPI data
✅ How the One Big Beautiful Bill changes the factory investment calculus
✅ Why tacit knowledge (not equipment) is the real bottleneck on the manufacturing ramp

🎧 Listen now:
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mkuSpogoCi
👉 Spotify: https://t.co/9jQ2EDQUB0
👉 YouTube: https://t.co/8eZ4IYuuCm

[Kaia Rhodes @kaiarhodes]

We're pushing the limits of capital, talent, and physics to meet demand at @Anatar.

[U.S. Manufacturing Today Podcast 🎙️ @USMfgToday]

🔥 Episode 58 Is Live!

In this latest episode, brought to you by @veryableops, @Matt_Horine connects a series of developments that together point toward a broader industrial shift already underway across the U.S.

What you'll learn:
🔹 What the DOJ container cartel indictment reveals about supply chain concentration risk
🔹 Why JetZero’s $4.7B aircraft factory signals long-term confidence in U.S. manufacturing
🔹 Why freight tightening increasingly appears structural rather than temporary
🔹 How tax policy changes are accelerating manufacturing investment
🔹 Why tacit manufacturing knowledge may become one of the defining constraints of the next cycle

🎧 Listen now:
👉 Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mkuSpofQMK
👉 Spotify: https://t.co/9jQ2EDQmLs
👉 YouTube: https://t.co/8eZ4IYtWMO

[Matt Horine 🇺🇸 @Matt_Horine]

"A final message from the last veterans of WWII"
https://t.co/6hY6uvIOQQ

[America @america]

America was built to be a high-trust society.