AUTOMATION NOT YET ABLE TO FORCE MASS RESHORING – BUT THAT DAY MAY COME, SAY EXPERTS
November 22nd, 2021
The use of ‘sewbots’ that can replace human sewers and other robotics look set to transform the clothing and textile supply chain and facilitate reshoring or near-shoring to developed countries currently reliant on lower income outsourcing hubs, maybe thousands of kilometres away from buyers.
But while online merchants and small new brands owned by millennials are already driving reshoring claiming it involves a lower environmental footprint through reduced transport and less inventory waste, larger brands baulk at the investment and operational ...
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