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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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The last few weeks have been a furor of contention about tariffs, but there is a bigger conversation about the value of local manufacturing that needs to happen.
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0:00.0 | Here at T-Rex, we've talked a lot about manufacturing, partly because we're a manufacturing |
0:04.6 | company, but even if we weren't, we understand that manufacturing is very important. |
0:09.5 | We've talked about it on the main channel, on the Labs channel, on this very podcast at this |
0:13.6 | very table, and today I'm going to talk about it a little bit more. |
0:23.1 | Welcome back to T-Rex Talk. |
0:25.8 | And if you listen very carefully, you will hear manufacturing going on right at this very |
0:33.1 | moment. |
0:33.9 | As you know, here at T-Rex, we make all kinds of tactical life-saving equipment, specifically |
0:40.7 | holsters. |
0:41.7 | That's kind of the main thing we manufacture in-house. |
0:43.6 | But we also make a huge amount of the tooling to manufacture holsters. |
0:47.9 | So here are some old aluminum extrusions that are being discontinued, and here are some new things being milled to take |
0:58.2 | over with what we're actually wanting to build. |
1:02.5 | So there's a lot of interesting options that open up for you as a company when you have |
1:07.8 | the ability to make stuff in-house, either with a machine shop over |
1:11.2 | there or some advanced engineering stuff that's happening just outside of camera over here. |
1:17.3 | There it goes again. Now, manufacturing and the ability for America to re-industrialize and take |
1:23.8 | on more manufacturing capability is something that has been discussed a lot recently, |
1:28.5 | particularly around the tariffs. It's been a lot of conversation about tariffs recently, |
1:33.2 | and it's been kind of a roller coaster ride. Not only has the conversation gone in all sorts of |
1:38.5 | different directions, but the tariffs themselves have been up and down and back and forth |
1:42.7 | and all over the place. And at this point, it's not even |
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