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Reshoring
UND
singly uncertain onneberger
For decades, the logic of global manufacturing was simple: make it where it’ s cheapest, ship it where it’ s needed. That logic is now cracking under the pressure of disrupted trade routes, tightening regulation, and a growing recognition that the true cost of a distant supply chain rarely appears on a purchase order.
Across Europe, industrial companies are restructuring where they source their components. Not by abandoning global suppliers wholesale, but by making more deliberate choices about which parts are too critical, too complex, or too risky to produce
on the other side of the world. The trend goes by several names, such as reshoring and nearshoring, but the underlying shift is the same: proximity is becoming a competitive advantage again.
The numbers behind the shift
According to the EIB Investment Survey 2025, 19 percent of EU importing firms are actively diversifying or increasing the number of countries they source from. A Capgemini Reindustrialization Report 2025 found that 73 percent of executives expect so-called friendshoring— sourcing from politically stable, trade-aligned partners— to account for a significant share of their operations going forward. More than half of the companies surveyed had already invested in
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