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The geography of the manufacturing sites that produce 3D printers is a bit of a blindspot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Industry stakeholders in the West have been forced to pay more attention to this over the last few years because the leading patron of Western AM, the US military, has started to signal a preference for machines produced outside of China. But the available information on the topic still leaves much to be desired.
EOS is one of the exceptions to this rule, and I appreciate that the OEM prioritizes informing the market about the evolving state of its production capacity, including an announcement back in January of a $3 million investment in its Texas assembly operations, dedicated to three of the printers in its metals line. And another company in the EOS