Stateline Industries and the Reshoring Test Every Indiana Supplier Should Run

WS Game Company CEO Jonathan Silva took a seven-figure tariff bill in 2025 on Chinese-made board games and spent more than a year building a domestic supply chain for a Monopoly Americana edition. Stateline Industries LLC in Liberty, Indiana, Union County, fabricated the custom metal tokens using zinc casting and plastic injection. That worked.

The dice did not. Silva found that U.S. dice suppliers exist in directories but not at commercial scale or price for a 10,000-unit run. The tooling left the country decades ago. WS Game now has roughly $6 million in Chinese-made holiday merchandise inbound with no clarity on tariff exposure.

Stateline succeeded because its capability is niche enough that nobody domestic was competing for the order, and an $80 collectible absorbed a 2x cost premium a commodity product never would. When a customer asks you to re-shore a sub-tier component, know which of your capabilities are in that category, rare, executable, margin-absorbent, and which depend on tooling that no longer exists here at scale.