making everyday things
The Scott Group (Grand Rapids, MI) uses dyeing machines from Cubotex Srl (
www.cubotex.it) in Milan to color some of its luxury yarns to make high-end floor coverings.
Making Everyday Things Better and Local
North American manufacturing is back on a growth trend, and Italian machine producers are helping bring about the resurgence.
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hen Scott Group Custom Carpets decided to stop outsourcing all dyeing of wool, silk and wool- cashmere blend yarns it uses to make floor cover- ings and, instead, bring the operation in-house in
order to grow their business, they contacted three Italian com- panies to find the machines they needed. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based company (
www.scottgroup.com) had been sending all of its luxurious yarns to a firm elsewhere in the United States for color processing.
Scott Group, a leading player in making high-end floor cov- erings for aircraft, commercial, hospitality, yacht and residential
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settings — including the White House — eventually purchased the machinery from Cubotex Srl (
www.cubotex.it) in Milan. “It was a quality service proposition,” says Michael Ruggeri,
president of Scott Group. “They demonstrated a willingness to work with us.” The Scott Group is one example of North American manufac-
turing rebounding from a worldwide upheaval in economic mar- kets. As President Barack Obama reminded Congress in his an- nual State of the Union address, there has been record demand for American-made products over the past 46 months that’s added about 600,000 jobs among American manufacturers. Certain industry sectors — for example, luxury carpet makers
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