Plastics Today: Are Face Masks Keeping Us Safe, Polluting the Oceans, Projecting Our Politics, or All of the Above
In discussing the continued demand for face masks, Thomas' 2020 Q4 Sourcing Activity Report is mentioned: Face masks was the number-one category, followed by nitrile gloves and hand sanitizers. Face masks saw the biggest increase in sourcing activity in Q42020 over Q42019. Just like last quarter, "face masks are at the top of the list, up 38,239% over last year's sourcing figures"
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Cloud Wars Podcast: The Process Revolution: Reimagining AI-Powered Business - Episode 21
In this episode of Uphoff on Industry, Tony Uphoff and Bob Evans discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world - specifically the latest in AI and machine learning.
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Small Business Advocate: Top four trends in manufacturing and supply chains for 2021
Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to report on four manufacturing and supply chain trends that will effect change on many levels, including reshoring, automation, skill shortages and digital transformation of marketing and sales.
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Small Business Advocate: The opportunity in supply chain redundancy trends
Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to report on the increasing trend toward supply chain redundancy and why this is good news for the small business sector.
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Small Business Advocate: Will the Biden/Harris administration be good for business?
Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to report on the initial mixed indicators of the new Biden administration and how their policies will reconcile pro-business policies.
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USA Today: American manufacturers pine for home as COVID disruptions, Trump tariffs shake up supplies
"The pandemic created a heightened awareness of supply chain risk," said Tony Uphoff, president and CEO of Thomasnet.com, a digital media and marketing services company that caters to industrial buyers and suppliers. "Before COVID, no one had any idea where PPE, surgical gowns, scrubs and masks were manufactured. Then, all of a sudden, they learned they were made within 300 miles of Wuhan, China and that their supply chain could get disrupted.
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Supply Chain Dive: Ultra-cold freezer sourcing up 522% with vaccine logistics underway
Sourcing for ultra-low-temperature freezers was up 522% YoY as of Monday, according to a Thomas Index Report update. The surge is a 464% increase over the organization's Q3 numbers, said Thomas President and CEO Tony Uphoff in the video report.
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Thomas and New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership Launch Joint Program to Bolster State Manufacturing
This press release was issued on December 15, 2020 via Business Wire at 9:30 am.
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Assembly Magazine: Gender Gap - Women Fill One-Third of Manufacturing Industry Jobs, One-Fourth of Leadership Positions
A new study from Thomas and Women in Manufacturing (WiM) shows that 1 in 3 manufacturing professionals and 1 in 4 manufacturing leaders are women. The medical-healthcare sector has the highest female-identifying employee presence at 54 percent. The industries with the lowest representation include the automotive (29 percent); energy, utilities, oil and gas (28); and aerospace and defense (24) sectors.
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The Gender Gap: Women Fill Only 33% of Manufacturing Industry Jobs, 26% of Industry Leadership Positions
This press release was issued on December 8, 2020 via Business Wire at 9:30 am
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