Tag: USDA Rural Development Business and Industry
China's allure fades for DeVilbiss
May 31, 2013Liz Beaulieu, Editor
SOMERSET, Pa. - DeVilbiss Healthcare is leaving China and taking its oxygen concentrators with it.The company is in the process of moving the manufacturing of this product line back to its facility in Somerset, Pa., after five years in China. The biggest reason: the need for improved communication between the engineers who design its products and the workers who make them.“When you have workers here, like we do, who have an average tenure of more than 20 years, they have good ideas about how...