STOKING AN
INDUSTRIAL
RENAISSANCE
The United States can lead the 21st Century shift to clean manufacturing.
High-tech heavy industry
is on the cusp of
transformative change
Will the U.S. lead or follow?
The world’s transition away from carbon intensive sources provides an opportunity to cultivate a clean manufacturing renaissance for heavy industry and jobs here at home.
Discover how we can onshore high-tech heavy industry and improve our national security, environment, and economic prosperity.
STOKING AN INDUSTRIAL RENAISSANCE
TODAY’S GLOBAL
SUPPLY CHAINS
TODAY’S GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Too many of the products vital to our economy and national security are made overseas by countries that are hostile to our interests, well-being, and values.
This problem is especially troubling for key industries like aluminum, chemicals, concrete, and batteries. Think of cars, airplanes, and military weapons. Heavy industries like these also emit a disproportionate share of carbon emissions. What’s the takeaway? By attracting strategically important manufacturing sectors back to the U.S. and allied countries, we will secure critical supply chains, improve the environment, and strengthen the U.S. economy.
This problem is especially troubling for key industries like aluminum, chemicals, concrete, and batteries. Think of cars, airplanes, and military weapons. Heavy industries like these also emit a disproportionate share of carbon emissions. What’s the takeaway? By attracting strategically important manufacturing sectors back to the U.S. and allied countries, we will secure critical supply chains, improve the environment, and strengthen the U.S. economy.
A Pentagon-led study conducted in recent years found that the U.S. is far too dependent on foreign suppliers for a range of key products and materials — including micro-electronics and integrated circuits and transistors, as well as the rare earth minerals used in magnets and radar systems.
Climate policies targeting industrial and electricity emissions are establishing new standards that heavy industries will need to navigate moving forward. U.S. manufacturing is already more carbon efficient than most countries, including China. However, achieving further greenhouse gas emissions reductions in hard to abate heavy industry will also require a cleaner grid and a reinvention of manufacturing technologies and processes.
By focusing on domestic and allied production of our most critical products and materials, the U.S. and our allies can ensure that we don’t cede this industrial future — as well as the jobs and higher standard of living that follow — to China.
Onshoring will create benefits across the economic spectrum, from job growth to cleaner and more competitive industry.
America’s supply chain challenges have come to a head. The opportunity to onshore American manufacturing and heavy industry begins now.
The President and Congress have more levers to kick-start a shift to cleaner manufacturing and production at home than they think. SAFE Commanding Heights presents some of the finest options from some of the brightest figures in business and across the political spectrum. Supply-side levers include capital investment tax credits, R&D subsidies, loan guarantees, and incentive payments to expand domestic output like the one being proposed right now for the U.S. semiconductor industry. Demand-side levers are powerful too — especially in a world where “Buy Clean” and “Buy American” have growing consumer appeal.
STOKING AN INDUSTRIAL RENAISSANCENEWS AND
UPDATES
Stay informed as SAFE Commanding Heights leads the conversation around America’s manufacturing, energy and transportation policy.
