Reshoring Initiative president inducted into AME Hall of Fame

The Reshoring Initiative has announced that its president, Harry Moser, has been inducted into the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Hall of Fame. Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring 5 million manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after working for high-end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, starting as president in 1985 and retiring in 2010 as chairman emeritus.

He was inducted into the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame in 2010 and was named Quality magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the Year and FAB Shop magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the Year. He participated actively in President Obama’s 2012 “Insourcing American Jobs” forum and received the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award. He was recognized by Sue Helper, then Commerce Department chief economist, as the driving force in founding the reshoring trend and named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council in August 2019.