In January 2017, Toyota pledged to invest $13 billion in its U.S. operations over five years. On June 30, the company announced it will reach that goal a year early.

It is too little and too late to keep writing “manufacturing matters.” Everything else in the economy is secondary to manufacturing, mining and farming. Only these activities build wealth.

Successful manufacturers go to great lengths to better serve their customers. Modula USA has gone nearly 4,000 miles - from Italy to Maine - to better serve its customers in North and South America.