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• The US-Israel war on Iran is already catalyzing the sorts of major shifts to global supply chains that will effectively amount to permanent economic changes. In this context, the nations...
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The US-Israel war on Iran is already catalyzing the sorts of major shifts to global supply chains that will effectively amount to permanent economic changes. In this context, the nations that were already on a course towards localizing production in response to the disruptive developments of the first half of the 2020s can be expected to accelerate that trajectory.
That acceleration effect should lead to market conditions that push the additive manufacturing (AM) industry’s overall agenda in a direction primarily set not by the industry itself, but by which verticals find themselves in most urgent need of an agility boost. Long before the world’s latest war started, we were already seeing this happen with the defense sector: this helps explain why Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20-24), “the w