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Sustainable sneaker brand Psudo is trying to crack the code on minimizing production waste. And it’s doing it while staying locally made. The company, which launched in 2020, opened a 5,000-sq.-ft ...

In April 2021, Alan Guyan, Kevin Fisher and Trey Hentz began locking themselves in a studio next to Guyan’s garage in Annapolis and tried to figure out how to start a new shoe company. Ten months ...

In the open studio of a renovated 36,000-square-foot factory in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, a series of Shima Seiki automated knitting machines emit quick, whirring sounds. Around the machines, automated ...

Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] ...

With the Trump administration’s goal of bringing back manufacturing jobs, we look back at why a recent attempt by Nike to move sneaker production to North America didn’t work. The Trump administration ...