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As the coronavirus interrupts global supply chains, people have an alternative – make it at home

  • Written by Joshua M. Pearce, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
As the coronavirus interrupts global supply chains, people have an alternative – make it at homeMany items labeled "Made in China" could be made on people's desktops instead.kynny/iStock via Getty Images

As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on global supply chains, a trend of moving manufacturing closer to customers could go so far as to put miniature manufacturing plants in people’s living rooms.

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