A New Source Of Business

Insourcing can bring in revenue to fund new equipment, while keeping your underutilized machines busy. But controversy surrounds the topic.

In June of 1997, Larry Sutherland was a little anxious. With outsourcing on the minds of so many business executives, the former manager of Eastman Chemical Creative Services worried that his Kingsport, Tenn.-based shop might be the next to fall in the name of cutting corporate costs. So he decided to take the offensive.