What's a hack in your industry that customers aren't supposed to find out?
Not really a hack..and it may not even be a secret at this point but most, if not all steel mills in the US import steel slabs from all over the world and then roll them into coils or whatever with them and sell it as “American made” so they can slap that sticker on whatever it’s used for to make people who care about that happy.
There needs to be some kind of certification that would allow an honest manufacturer to claim their product is 100% made in the USA, including the entire supply chain leading up to the finished product. Something like the way UL certifies electric devices.
I mean, sure..but how far do you go with that? Down to raw materials? What if the raw materials are made from scrap from other countries? I’m not saying one way or the other bc I really don’t care where something is made or sourced..but how far do we go with that certification?
You could have different levels ranging from the entire supply chain, including where this was taken out of the ground, is in the US all the way to final assembly in the US.
Just do something similar to AIS certification with steel; which we already do.
That’s why I was hired at my HVAC and Plumbing Wholesaler firm.
You literally melt down raw materials to make iron, to then add in more material to change it to steel. How could you say it’s not American made if the raw materials were from scrap metal From Who knows where but was melted down and chemically and physically changed then cooled and formed into a bar or slab or what ever? Thats a ridiculous ask and then to say it’s not American made.
Thats like Making pizza and the yeast in the dough was from Canada. So it’s no longer American made?
It makes no difference with how much composition and chemical change there is in the steel if the scrap was made from metal from china. We add and take out stuff to the steel mix where you’d never know and it would be impossible to tell that there was non American sourced materials In it. It’s heated to like 2900 degrees.