๐กThe biggest constraint in manufacturing was never the technology. Itโs that labor was never built to flex.
Veryable was founded on a hard truth our co-founders saw firsthand across plants, shop floors, and hundreds of consulting engagements:
Every operational problem traced back to one constraint: labor. And as long as it behaves like a fixed cost, no advanced tool, whether AI or robotics, can reach its full potential.
So we built the first on-demand labor marketplace purpose-built for manufacturing and logistics. Not as a staffing alternative, but as an operational tool.
By solving the labor constraint first, companies unlock the ability to:
โ Match labor to demand in real time
โ Attack bottlenecks the moment they appear
โ Protect full-time teams from OT and burnout
โ Scale output without adding fixed cost
โ Make reshored production economically viable
The mission hasnโt changed since day one:
Remove the labor constraint so companies operate at full potential, and give workers the freedom to participate on their own terms.
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๐บ๐ธ 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
โ ๏ธEveryone 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:
โ How the Strait of Hormuz closure is already squeezing hospital supply chains in real time
โ Why the lowest-cost supplier can become the most expensive option when the supply chain breaks
โ What a fully automated, hurricane-resilient facility in Brazoria County, TX looks like at scale
โ How watching the U.S. struggle for basic PPE during COVID turned a vision into a $500M decision
โ Why long-term contracts matter more than spot buys when building domestic manufacturing capacity
๐ง Listen now:
๐Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/4XowxdVW5l
๐Spotify: https://t.co/No5DMELruT
๐YouTube: https://t.co/pMY166vgSf
๐จNEW 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 โ 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:
โ How watching the U.S. struggle to secure basic PPE during COVID turned a long-held vision into a $500 million decision
โ What it took to find the right site and why Texas ultimately beat out NY, FL, and other contenders
โ How a highly automated facility produces 180-200 million gloves a month
โ Why securing long-term contracts (not spot buys) is the only way domestic manufacturers can justify the investment and scale
โ What recent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz reveal about the fragility of critical supply chains
๐ง Listen now:
๐Apple: https://t.co/4XowxdVW5l
๐Spotify: https://t.co/No5DMELruT
Reindustrialization doesn't happen without small and medium-sized manufacturers. Great to see Klear and @Newlab getting recognized for providing the exact support these businesses need to scale.
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โ ๏ธThe 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:
โ How COVID exposed America's near-total dependence on imported PPE and accelerated Maxter's push to build domestically
โ Why Brazoria County won out over New York, Florida, and a dozen other sites
โ Inside a 215-acre, fully automated facility producing 180-200 million gloves a month, and what's coming in future expansion phases
โ Why the federal government is the anchor customer, and why long-term contracts are essential for domestic manufacturers to survive
โ How the Strait of Hormuz closure is already putting hospitals on allocation and why just-in-time procurement is a liability
๐ก Full episode drops tomorrow ๐ฑ Follow the show so you don't miss it:
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Peak season is when customer relationships are made or broken. But most operations don't find out which one it was until fall.
When demand runs above forecast and the labor model can't flex, the damage rarely announces itself:
โ Customers quietly shop around due to delivery delays, waiting for the busy season to end before they reallocate their volume.
โ Competitors capture the incremental volume you couldn't, gaining the foothold they need to take the account.
โ Key employees burn out under the grueling summer workload, waiting until the pressure lets up to put in their notice.
โ Margin pressure builds invisibly through excessive overtime, operational instability, and expensive, reactive decisions.
When your labor model can't flex, you're forced to choose between hitting shipping deadlines and maintaining target margins. That's a lose-lose scenario.
In our latest article, we share how operations use Veryable to eliminate that trade-off entirely. Find out how an on-demand labor pool gives you the operational agility needed to protect both customer relationships and profitability through the summer rush.
Read it here: https://t.co/2ypz0wsXf9
๐ฅ 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:
๐น What the DOJ container cartel indictment reveals about supply chain concentration risk
๐น Why JetZeroโs $4.7B aircraft factory signals long-term confidence in U.S. manufacturing
๐น Why freight tightening increasingly appears structural rather than temporary
๐น How tax policy changes are accelerating manufacturing investment
๐น Why tacit manufacturing knowledge may become one of the defining constraints of the next cycle
๐ง Listen now:
๐ Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mkuSpofQMK
๐ Spotify: https://t.co/9jQ2EDQmLs
๐ YouTube: https://t.co/8eZ4IYtWMO
๐บ๐ธ Memorial Day is a reminder that freedom was never guaranteed. It was defended by men and women who stepped forward, served this country, and made the ultimate sacrifice for people they would never meet.
Today, we honor those Americans. Not just with words, but with gratitude worthy of their sacrifice.
Because every flag flying freely, every family gathered together, and every opportunity this country provides exists because generations before us were willing to fight for it.
To all who gave everything for the United States of America:
We remember you. We honor you. We will never forget.
Manufacturing is not pushing buttons
-Itโs not clean PowerPoint charts.
-Itโs not buzzwords from people who never stood next to a machine.
Manufacturing is
material constraints,
bad prints,
broken tooling,
late jobs,
setup pressure,
inspection calls, and people still finding a way to ship good parts.
Respect the folks on the floor
Every summer, building materials operations run into the same problem.
A wet stretch ends, contractors pull projects forward simultaneously, and will-call traffic spikes while staging runs behind. Sized to a static labor plan, the operation has no real levers left except bleeding overtime and pulling supervisors onto the floor.
โ Loading windows stretch as staging falls behind
โ Supervisors cover floor gaps instead of running the operation
โ Overtime burns out your most experienced employees
That's the exact gap on-demand labor was built to close.
Our latest article breaks down why peak season pressure compounds week by week, why seasonal hiring and temp staffing were never built to absorb it, and what changes when suppliers can flex labor capacity day by day.
๐ Read it here๐
https://t.co/9c3oSGedHc
Tender rejection levels spike to 16.29%, a new cycle high, as market conditions show no sign of easing this week right before Memorial Day.
Itโs good to be a compliant trucker.