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new balance cheap shoes is humble enough, roughly the height of a school bus and two-thirds the length, and nowhere near as noisy. You wouldn’t know it by looking at it, but there’s no other contraption in the country that can do exactly what this thing can do. Its eight injection-molding stations convert plastic pellets into a lightweight midsole. It is, company officials say, the missing link needed to make a running shoe that’s fully manufactured here in the United State.

new balance discount, the last major independent shoe company in the Boston area, bought the IMEVA about a year ago. The first soles rolled off the production line in the spring. New Balance executives hope these shoes, known as the 950, will be purchased by the Pentagon if a new law can require that U.S.-made training shoes be bought for military recruits, just like every other item in their wardrobes.“It would be a tremendous opportunity for the domestic footwear industry,” says Matt LeBretton, new balance 670 review’s director of public affairs. “The industry needs every opportunity it can get to be strengthened.”

The arrival of this injection-molding machine signals just how serious New Balance is about chasing military business, which could lead to orders for nearly 250,000 additional pairs a year. A lucrative armed-services contract could prompt the company to add as many as 200 jobs to its nearly 1,350-person manufacturing workforce in New England, and it would buoy numerous suppliers in the region. The IMEVA’s expense also shows how serious new balance 670 buy is about domestic manufacturing in general. And the investment – New Balance won’t say how much it paid, exactly – represents yet another hopeful sign that the once-incessant flow of production work to cheaper overseas locales can be reversed.

About one-quarter of New Balance’s shoes in North America can carry a “Made in the USA” label. But even those shoes contain some foreign-made parts, such as the midsoles. new balance 670 buy online executives hope the Berry Amendment, a federal law that dates back to the early 1940s, will be the key to jump-starting work on a 100 percent, All-American shoe. The statute requires the military to make procurements for its recruits from domestic manufacturers whenever possible. The U.S. Postal Service also requires “Berry compliance,” and New Balance has made postal workers’ shoes in Brighton for at least a decade. U.S. Department of Defense officials, however, have said they don’t need to adhere to the Berry requirement for athletic shoes, in part because there are no companies in the U.S. that can make such sneakers here.

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