Japanese-owned factories are back up and running across the nation, but most are operating with reduced staff as they wait for the appropriate time to bring back their full teams. In its fourth “short survey” since the pandemic began, the Japan External Trade Organization found that the majority of Japanese subsidiaries — in manufacturing and […]
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Korea Economic Institute’s Perspective on the Future of Supply Chains and Trade
Global supply chains will adopt a hybrid of global and regional models once the Covid-19 pandemic is contained, Troy Stangarone, a senior director and fellow of the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), concluded during a Zoom conference with members of the Southeast U.S. Korean Chamber of Commerce June 19. Mr. Stangarone was sensitive to […]
Locust Plague Prompts GSU PhD Student to Consider Alternative Food Source
A new generation of locusts will be hatched in just a few weeks, which will mature into ravenous teenagers possibly sweeping across East, Central and West Africa as well as turning eastward toward Pakistan. Their parents have accosted northern Kenya and the Horn of Africa already, devouring hundreds of thousands of acres of crops including […]
Survey: Japanese Firms Retain Workers, Optimism Even as Sales, Production Shrink
Most Japanese companies operating in the U.S. have had to cut production as sales have fallen amid the pandemic; still, a large majority are retaining their workers or offering options that could allow them to quickly come back to work once things recover. That’s the finding of the Japan External Trade Organization’s most recent “Quick […]
Japan-Owned Plastics Manufacturer to Hire 15 in Covington Expansion
Mytex Polymers U.S. Corp. is set to invest $7 million to add a production line in an existing 140,000-square-foot plastics facility in Covington, creating 15 new jobs. The move comes as the company is seeing increased demand for its long glass polypropylene, a reinforced resin used mostly for car parts. The company is based in Jeffersonville, […]
Consulates and COVID-19: How Japan, Bahamas and the United Kingdom Are Coping, Learning
The work of diplomats is personal by nature, but some leaders of foreign outposts in Atlanta are finding during the pandemic era that this need not mean “physical.” In the first virtual edition of its Consular Conversations series sponsored by Miller & Martin PLLC May 8, Global Atlanta welcomed Japanese Consul General Kazuyuki Takeuchi, Bahamian Consul […]
JETRO Survey: More Japanese Firms Suspend or Reduce Production as Sales Flag Amid Pandemic
More Japanese firms across the country are suspending or reducing their manufacturing operations as the pandemic puts a major dent in sales, according to a second survey by the Japan External Trade Organization that heavily weights firms in the Southeast U.S. The trade and investment agency’s second “quick survey” compiled 1,048 responses from Japanese-owned subsidiaries […]
Endicott College: Part of the Legacy in Korea of a Former Georgia Tech Prof
South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in emerged from the April 15 legislative elections stronger than ever placing his party in a position to set the country’s political, educational and diplomatic agendas as it emerges from the threat of COVID-19, according to John Endicott, the former Georgia Tech professor who currently serves as president of a Korean […]
Georgia’s Global Manufacturers Retool to Help Health System Fight COVID-19
Even as they deal with a maze of restrictions, new safety protocols and uncertainty about their own operations, manufacturers across Georgia, many of them with foreign parent companies, have found ways to step up and fight the COVID-19 pandemic within the state and beyond. Some in Washington have criticized President Trump for only recently using […]
How Japanese Firms Are Managing Covid-19 and the Rapid Shift to Remote Work
Japanese companies in the United States face myriad challenges as the coronavirus outbreak forces an abrupt shift to remote work, throwing a wrench into operations heavy on manufacturing and deeply reliant on in-person communication. Nearly 70 percent of Japanese subsidiaries here have seen their sales slip, while 90 percent have at least some staff working […]
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