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Congressman Reed Tours B2Btail Client, Falconer Electronics

Congressman Reed toured our client, Falconer Electronics on August 25, 2020. The entire Falconer Electronics team was blown away by the Congressman’s genuine interest and care for not only the company but also each staff member as individuals. 

Check out the press release here: “Humble Beginnings: Reed Visits Falconer Electronics“

Congressman Reed Tours Falconer Electronics

FALCONER NY— Have you ever borrowed something from you neighbor’s garage?

Well if you have, Roger Hall can one-up you on that. Hall just didn’t borrow something from his neighbor’s garage, he started a business in it.

Hall started Falconer Electronics in 1985 and 35 years later the company has grown from its humble beginnings in a garage to a manufacturing facility located at 421 Everett St., Falconer.

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, toured Falconer Electronics. The company that produces heavy duty ground straps, wire harnesses, commercial grade power strips, and printed circuit boards. Hall said the company has 25 employees.

“We like to make things, so we make stuff here,” Hall said.

Hall said following the COVID-19 outbreak in March, the manufacturing facility had to shutdown for a few days, but was up and running again shortly after because they were deemed an essential business because they produce microelectronics. He said the employees went back to work socially distancing themselves and wearing mask even before the state released guidelines on how to restart production.

“We just did the common sense things,” he said.

Hall said he is seeing signs of the economy picking back up. He also shared Falconer Electronics will keep moving forward because of a dedicated staff.

“It’s just going to take a little time,” he said.

Related Article: Falconer Electronics Wins “Innovative Manufacturer of the Year”

Dedicated Staff at Falconer Electronics 

Curt Anderson, Falconer Electronics eCommerce consultant, said the company’s dedicated staff drives the success. Especially since several employees having 10 to 20 years of service.

“The employees never missed a beat,” Anderson said about Falconer Electronic workers going back to work once they received the green light from the state.

Anderson presented Reed with a book he wrote titled “Stop Being The Best Kept Secret,” which is about e-commerce strategies he has implemented at Falconer Electronics to find a new customer base. Anderson also told Reed that Falconer Electronics received the Buffalo Business First Manufacturing Innovation Award this year. Due to the marketing plan developed with the assistance of the Small Business Development Center at Jamestown Community College, Falconer Electronics’ website traffic increased by 1,000% from November 2017 through January 2019.

Congressman Reed said he wanted to tour the manufacturer because he wanted to show people in New York’s 23rd Congressional District that business and production is still happening during the pandemic.

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FuzeHub: Dedicated to Helping New York State’s Manufacturing Industry

Exciting news! New York manufacturers now have another incredible resource to turn to for guidance and assistance: FuzeHub.

FuzeHub is a not-for-profit organization that connects New York’s small and mid-sized manufacturing companies to the resources, programs and expertise they need for technology commercialization, innovation as well as business growth.

The team at FuzeHub also helps companies navigate New York’s robust network of industry experts at Manufacturing Extension Partners (MEP) centers, universities, economic development organizations as well as other service providers.

FuzeHub is the statewide New York MEP center, supported by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR).

Furthermore, FuzeHub provides New York State manufacturers as well as technology companies with guided access to an extensive network of industry experts.

In addition, FuzeHub also offers programs to help solve productivity, commercialization, research and development issues, as well as tackles other challenges to growth.

FuzeHub’s programs champion the New York State manufacturing and technology community with providing targeted resources to accelerate manufacturing competitiveness as well as technology commercialization.

The FuzeHub team consists of experienced manufacturing and business professionals who are knowledgeable to New York State’s vast technology, research, engineering, as well as equipment assets.

For example, manufacturing specialists at FuzeHub work one-on-one with your company. In addition, domain experts engage as needed to analyze your specific needs and opportunities.

Most importantly, FuzeHub offers expedited, hands-on, and highly effective connections to the best solution for your manufacturing and innovation needs.

Steve Melito at FuzeHub

FuzeHub

Steve Melito is the voice and pen of FuzeHub’s Solutions Program. He’s usually the first person you’ll speak with when you contact FuzeHub for assistance. He’s also a prolific writer.

As part of his support for the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NYMEP), Steve is the voice of the New York Manufacturing Now podcast as well as a regular contributor to FuzeHub’s marketing efforts and its Manufacturer Solutions Program.

Steve Melito is also the founder and co-owner of Thunderbolt Business Services, an industrial marketing agency in Adams, Massachusetts (USA). Steve started Thunderbolt 10 years ago when manufacturers noticed his work for an engineering community and asked him to help them reach their target audiences.

Today, Thunderbolt serves manufacturing and technology companies across North America as well as provides digital marketing services that include content creation, social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, podcasting, press releases, marketing automation, and tradeshow support.

A graduate of Colgate University (B.A.) and Southern Methodist University (M.A), Steve lives in the Berkshires but is also the current chair of the News & Website Committee for The Los Angeles Group (TLARGI). He is also a former member of the Sales and Marketing Committee for the International Association of Diecutting and Diemaking (IADD).

Let’s learn more about FuzeHub from Steve Melito:

FuzeHub Programs Include…

Start Up, Grow Up.

Get the innovation, commercialization as well as the business development assistance your NYS manufacturing startup needs from A to Z.

FuzeHub provides guidance on the following:

  • Technology Scouting
  • Technology Transfer
  • Commercialization Services & Professionals
  • Business Services: Planning & Development
  • Funding & Grant Assistance
  • Small Business Programs & Support
  • Proof of Concept & Prototype Development Innovation
  • Growth & Production Scale Up
  • Site Selection & Fit Up

Click here to learn more: Start Up, Grow Up

FuzeHub Build4Scale

Are you ready to Scale from Prototype to Production?

The FuzeHub Build4Scale NY program offers many invaluable benefits to assist and grow your start-up and small companies. Live workshops provide key insight into difficult production issues. In addition, the workshops offer useful tools to help you evade design and production pitfalls that were maybe avoidable.

The FuzeHub Build4Scale Program offers a wealth of helpful workshops and webinars.

Click here to learn more: Build4Scale Events

Strengthen Your Supply Chain

Access our supply chain experts and services to secure your competitive advantage.

Manufacturing supply chain success also depends on the success and quality of its suppliers. For small and medium suppliers – staying competitive means keeping up with the innovative changes as well as the demands of your larger customers.

Click here to learn more: Strengthen Your Supply Chain

Engineer Your Future

Most importantly, FuzeHub offers extra capacity and expertise at your fingertips

Years of outsourcing and the changing nature of manufacturing work has shifted the landscape of production technology and readily available expertise.

Especially since, access to highly skilled engineering, design and production expertise along with cutting edge rapid prototyping capabilities are essential factors for your growth and competitiveness.

Click here to learn more: Engineer Your Future

Innovate Your Process

Lastly, staying competitive means keeping pace with advanced technologies, new process and people.

For example, is Additive Manufacturing a potential option for your parts?

Furthermore, are there new robotics, materials processing, or automation that you could be taking advantage of?

Finding the right technologies to incorporate into your manufacturing that make sense for where your business is currently at and where you would like it to be in the future are areas where FuzeHub can provide guidance.

Click here to learn more: Innovate Your Process

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The Reshoring Initiative Stresses the “Return-Manufacturing-Home” Message

The Reshoring Initiative!

If you are a U.S. Manufacturer, the words “Reshoring Initiative” brings music to your ears. 

For example, reshoring certainly looks to play a critical role moving forward following COVID-19 pandemic. 

Especially since most companies encountered significant supply chain disruptions during this challenging period. 

Well, the team at the Reshoring Initiative welcomes this exciting trend and opportunity for U.S. manufacturers. 

For information on the Reshoring Intiative click on these links: Reshoring Initiative Background and Accompishments and Goals.

In addition, to learn more about the Reshoring Initiative check out this video: 

About The Reshoring Initiative 

With reshoring gaining momentum throughout the country, this initiative certainly supports an extremely valuable and worthy cause. 

Many companies have already repatriated some of their manufacturing efforts. The Reshoring Initiative is continuing to spread the “return-manufacturing-home” message to help other manufacturers realize America offers tremendous advantages to produce quality goods: 

The mission of the Reshoring Initiative® is to bring good, well-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States by assisting companies to more accurately assess their total cost of offshoring, and shift collective thinking from offshoring is cheaper to local reduces the total cost of ownership. We are a nonprofit organization and offer a number of free tools to advance our mission.

Reshoring Initiative Founder Harry Moser 

Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative and former president of machine tool maker GF Agie Charmilles, grew up experiencing manufacturing glory.

However times changed. Watching many American manufacturing plants close due to decades of offshoring, Moser decided to take a stand. 

Not wanting to see any more U.S. manufacturing jobs disappear, Moser found it critical to start an industry-led initiative to prove offshoring is not always the best economical decision for companies.

In fact, American companies considering sending their manufacturing offshore often don’t consider all of the costs, e.g. inventory carrying costs, travel costs to check on suppliers, intellectual property risks and opportunity costs from product pipelines being too long.

The Reshoring Initiative, founded in early 2010, takes action by helping manufacturers realize that local production, in some cases, reduces their total cost of ownership of purchased parts and tooling.

The Initiative also trains suppliers on how to effectively meet the needs of their local customers, giving the suppliers the tools to sell against lower priced offshore competitors.

Why Reshore?

There are many reasons for American manufacturers to reevaluate offshoring and consider reshoring. Companies are increasingly recognizing that costs, risks as well as strategic impacts previously ignored are large enough to overcome the shrinking emerging market wage advantages.

They are seeing the benefits of proximity as well as producing in the market. 

Especially when the home market in the United States still serves as the world’s largest.

The top reasons that companies reshore include:

  • Lead time
  • Higher product quality as well as consistency
  • Rising offshore wages
  • Skilled workforce
  • Local tax incentives
  • Image of being Made in USA
  • Lower inventory levels as well as better turns
  • Also better responsiveness to changing customer demands
  • Minimal intellectual property as well as regulatory compliance risks
  • Improved innovation as well as product differentiation

Why Reshoring Makes Sense for America

Reshoring is the fastest and most efficient way to strengthen the U.S. economy because it:

  • Helps balance the trade and budget deficits
  • Reduces unemployment by creating productive jobs
  • Additionally reduces income inequality
  • Furthermore, motivates skilled workforce recruitment by demonstrating that manufacturing is a growth career
  • Also helps maintain the broad industrial capability required for national defense

Stop by the Reshoring Initiative today to learn about this extremely exciting trend: https://www.reshorenow.org/

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