This post isn't about the dog days of summer, nor is it a list of Paris Hilton's "that's hot" endorsements. Rather it's a glimpse of one metal bending company that has a $7.4 billion backlog of projects—now that's hot.

It also is about the hottest manufacturing sectors in the U.K. And it touches on something that definitely is not hot.

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Note: This post expands on an item in the May 10 SNB Stamping News Brief e-newsletter.

Is manufacturing returning to North America on a slow boat from China? The report Surviving the China Riptide: How to Profit from the Supply Chain Bottleneck, published by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), addresses a situation that's becoming increasingly common and costly for manufacturers that outsource to China—port gridlock that causes supply chain delays.

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I got back Saturday from a weeklong press junket sponsored by equipment manufacturer Finn-Power, which traces its roots to a small contracting business started in 1969 and run by Jorma Lillbacka in an old schoolhouse in the Finnish countryside.

What does one learn by visiting six metal fabricating operations in Finland and northern Italy? Fabricators in Europe aren’t so different from fabricators in North America.

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