California Exodus Watch — another California manufacturer is adding production somewhere else. 
Torrance-based Onshore Technologies has opened a new 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
Onshore makes electrical components and assemblies for aerospace, defense, space, robotics and medical companies. The company will remain headquartered in California, but its newest manufacturing capacity and associated hiring are going to New Hampshire.
Onshore says the reason is simple: get production closer to its growing Northeast customers and strengthen domestic supply chains. And consider the tax difference. California taxes C-corporation income at 8.84 percent. New Hampshire’s business profits tax is 7.5 percent. California also imposes an $800 minimum franchise tax annually — even if they’re inactive or operating at a loss.
New Hampshire does not. New Hampshire does offer a lower headline corporate profits-tax rate than California.
The company hasn’t disclosed the investment or number of new jobs, and so far there’s no disclosed government subsidy attached to the project.
Onshore Tech’s New Hampshire factory is open and operating.
