Bring Your Manufacturing Home
Reshoring is a serious decision. Crestwood helps you get it right.
Crestwood Industries helps manufacturers evaluate and execute a move from overseas suppliers to domestic tooling, production and inventory support.
Real Reshoring Experience
Over the last 24 months, Crestwood has worked with customers to bring a variety of programs back to domestic manufacturing. Each program came with its own tooling, materials and quality requirements, and each one moved through the same evaluation and transition process we use with every reshoring customer.
- Consumables
- Lighting components
- Medical and healthcare devices
Reshoring is rarely a simple swap of one supplier for another. It typically involves evaluating existing tooling, requalifying materials and processes, and building a production and inventory plan that can support the business from day one, and that is the part of the process Crestwood is set up to support.
Why Manufacturers Are Bringing Production Home
Cost Predictability
Quality Control
Faster Response
Supply-Chain Resilience
IP Protection
Domestic Manufacturing
More Than a Molding Supplier
Successful reshoring is rarely just moving a purchase order from one supplier to another. It typically means evaluating the existing tooling and process, then building the production and inventory plan to support it going forward. Crestwood supports that transition directly, including:
- Mold and tooling evaluation, and precision tooling for new builds
- Tool transfer for molds already running at another supplier
- Mold transfer and maintenance once tooling is running at Crestwood
- Injection molding and production support
- Quality oversight throughout the transition
- Inventory management and Kanban programs to help maintain supply continuity
Two Months of Inventory and Kanban, at No Charge
In addition to building robust and economical molds, Crestwood provides two months of inventory and Kanban support at no charge to customers.
This is intended to help offset the transition away from a long overseas supply chain, reduce the need to carry excess inventory during the changeover, and support production continuity while a new domestic supply arrangement is established.
This is Crestwood’s stated offering for reshoring programs. Ask your Crestwood contact how it applies to your project.
How Reshoring With Crestwood Can Work
Evaluate
Review the existing offshore program, tooling, materials, volumes and requirements.
Plan
Determine the tooling and production requirements for domestic manufacturing.
Transfer or Build
Transfer existing tooling where appropriate, or build a new, robust and economical mold.
Produce
Begin domestic production through Crestwood.
Stock
Use Crestwood’s inventory and Kanban support to help maintain supply continuity.
Who Can Benefit From Reshoring
Crestwood works across a range of industries, and reshoring can make sense for programs in any of them, depending on the project.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does a typical reshoring transition take?
Timelines vary by project, tooling and material requirements. Crestwood evaluates your existing program and outlines the steps and timing involved in the transfer or build process.
Does Crestwood require new tooling for every reshoring project?
Not necessarily. Depending on the mold’s condition and design, Crestwood can transfer and requalify existing tooling, or build a new mold when that is the more practical option.
What is included in Crestwood’s inventory and Kanban offer?
Crestwood provides two months of inventory and Kanban support at no charge, intended to help customers transition away from long overseas supply chains and maintain production continuity.
