Made In France: Manufacturing Reshoring Without Losing Competitiveness

Over the past two years, we have implemented a manufacturing reshoring strategy, repatriating 50% of our components from Asia to France, bringing locally produced parts to 70% without sacrificing competitiveness.

This transformation is not symbolic.

It reflects a strong conviction: industrial sovereignty is not declared. It is built through pragmatic and consistent decisions, not positioning.

At Niryo, we approached this shift with a structured and rational mindset.

Being sovereign does not mean producing everything locally. It means knowing exactly what we want to control, what we can delegate, and how to secure our supply chain over the long term.

Our work consists of identifying strategic components, diversifying partners, and building durable relationships.

Beyond cost, we value proximity, responsiveness, and transparency with our French partners.

These are competitive advantages that a simple price comparison does not always capture.

Manufacturing Reshoring: A Pragmatic Industrial Strategy

Within two years, we relocated half of our references from Asia to France.

This evolution was initiated by our industrial leadership with a clear objective: strengthen our technological control while maintaining a sound economic balance.

Industrial sovereignty is built on a strategy of balance between economic performance and industrial responsibility.

Our goal is not to relocate everything.

It is to retain control of our technology, ensure full traceability for our customers, and contribute to the vitality of French industry, without increasing overall costs.

Relocating Production: A Shared Effort

Relocation is neither simple nor symbolic.

The success of this approach relies above all on transparency between partners: sharing real costs, volumes, and jointly building a coherent balance between price, quality, and lead time.

Relocation is not a standard sourcing request.

You cannot simply send a drawing and wait for a quote.

It requires technical discussions, trust, and a genuine willingness to build together.

Our sourcing work consists of identifying suppliers who are open to co-development, ready to evolve their methods and adapt their own supply chains.

It is this shared willingness to adapt that has made it possible to bring numerous references back from China to France.

Two partners particularly illustrate this dynamic: InoxyFrance and AB Precision.

InoxyFrance: “Proximity Has Real Value”

Based in Northern France, InoxyFrance specializes in laser cutting, bending, and metal machining.

Its CEO, Guillaume Carrette, supported our relocation initiative by restructuring his supply chain and challenging his own partners, particularly in machining, in order to identify those capable of meeting the right cost and lead time targets.

He believes these initiatives are essential to restoring French industry’s competitiveness:

“What will ensure the long-term sustainability of industrial companies is their ability to open up, question themselves, and challenge their practices. If we remain stuck in ‘this is how we’ve always done it,’ we do not move forward.”

The company is now considering integrating additional machining capabilities in-house to improve responsiveness and lead time control.

InoxyFrance currently manufactures several aluminum parts for our robotic conveyors.

Conveyor component integrated into the Niryo Discovery Bundle, manufactured by InoxyFrance.

For Guillaume Carrette, the value of Made in France goes far beyond unit price:

“Being at the same price as an Asian supplier actually creates more value for the customer. You gain proximity, responsiveness, and trust. And if an issue arises, the solution is 50 kilometers away, not 10,000.”

AB Precision: “Relocation Is Possible”

Based in the Lyon region, AB Précision specializes in high-precision CNC machining for robotics, automotive, medical, and laser applications.

The company now manufactures the base plate of our Ned2 robot as well as accessories for our education bundle, parts that were previously imported from China.

Ned2 educational robot components, manufactured by AB Precision.

What convinced its CEO, Alexandre Billon, was both the human dimension of the project and the industrial pride it represents:

“Contributing to the success of a young French robotics company is highly motivating. It is a real satisfaction to know this can be manufactured in France.”

The collaboration was built on transparency and trust.

“Niryo shared the drawings, volumes, and a target price, and we looked together at where we could align. The approach was direct, honest, without bidding pressure.”

Alexandre Billon points out that the difference with Asia is no longer about quality, but about the ability to optimize costs and guarantee traceability.

AB Precision relies on strong structural advantages: full raw material traceability and continuous investment in next-generation machining equipment, strengthening both competitiveness and production quality.

This industrial rigor enables the company to deliver reliable, competitive, and fully traceable products.

For Alexandre Billon, Made in France cannot simply be declared. It must be built collectively:

“You have to fight to grow your company, but also work hand in hand with manufacturers. That is how we will bring components back to France.”

Sovereignty Built on Balance

Through this sourcing policy, we demonstrate that it is possible to design robotics that are competitive, accessible, and Made in France, provided that manufacturers and suppliers make the necessary efforts together.

Industrial sovereignty is not an ideology. It is a strategy of balance.

It is built through deliberate, consistent, component-by-component decisions.