• A worker makes final preparations after installing the motherboard on the reverse side of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A worker makes final preparations after installing the motherboard on the reverse side of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Workers use remote controls to check 32-inch television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Workers use remote controls to check 32-inch television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Workers stack boxes of television sets after they have been assembled, checked and repackaged, before moving them to the warehouse at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Workers stack boxes of television sets after they have been assembled, checked and repackaged, before moving them to the warehouse at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Workers use remote controls to check television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element before had made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Workers use remote controls to check television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element before had made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Workers on the assembly line work on installing the motherboard on the reverse side of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element before had made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Workers on the assembly line work on installing the motherboard on the reverse side of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element before had made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • A worker lines up the motherboard as he assembles a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element previously made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A worker lines up the motherboard as he assembles a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element previously made all its TVs in Asia - but it was unable to get them on Walmart's shelves because there was nothing that differentiated them from rivals' products. Today, Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Workers on the assembly line replace the back covers of television sets at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element previously made all its TVs in Asia, but the production switch to the US has led to significant savings in ocean freight charges and customs duties on finished goods. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Workers on the assembly line replace the back covers of television sets at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element previously made all its TVs in Asia, but the production switch to the US has led to significant savings in ocean freight charges and customs duties on finished goods. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • A worker stacks empty boxes after removing the shell of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade and Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs are now available in all of the retailer's more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A worker stacks empty boxes after removing the shell of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade and Element's 32- and 40-inch TVs are now available in all of the retailer's more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • A worker uses an electronic screwdriver to install the motherboard on the reverse side of an Element television. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A worker uses an electronic screwdriver to install the motherboard on the reverse side of an Element television. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • A worker uses a remote control to check 32-inch television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A worker uses a remote control to check 32-inch television sets before they are repackaged at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Element's plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart’s more than 4,000 US stores. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • Shelves are stacked with merchandise at a Walmart distribution centre in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade. Chris Keane / Reuters
    Shelves are stacked with merchandise at a Walmart distribution centre in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade. Chris Keane / Reuters
  • A stack of shirts on display at a Walmart Supercenter in Rogers, Arkansas. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade. Chris Keane / Reuters
    A stack of shirts on display at a Walmart Supercenter in Rogers, Arkansas. Walmart pledged in 2013 to buy an extra $250 billion in US-made goods over the next decade. Chris Keane / Reuters

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In pictures: Walmart’s ‘Made in the US’ push for manufacturing revival

Liz Claus

June 08, 2014

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The flat-screen TVs made in Winnsboro, South Carolina by Element Electronics, may be the biggest surprise in Walmart’s ‘Made in the US’ campaign to date. The world’s largest retailer in 2013 pledged to buy $250 billion US-made goods over the next decade to help to move America’s long-idled manufacturing sector.

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