Posted on 4 May 2017 by Michael Cruickshank ‘The Manufacturer’ US electronics manufacturer Apple has today announced a new fund to invest in manufacturing in the United States. Announced by the company’s CEO Tim Cook, the fund will invest $1bn dollars in local manufacturing initiatives. As well, Cook said that the first company which they would invest some of this money into had already been chosen, though the company itself has not been named. He went on to say that Apple wanted to help set a new trend for companies returning manufacturing back to the US. “…we can be the ripple in the pond. Because if we can create