Pix Moving was using only the most modern manufacturing methods – ‘dematerialised’ techniques. Rather than exporting cars, Yu explained, they ‘export the technique that is needed to produce the cars’.1 Vehicles are not loaded onto container ships and sent to their destination. Rather, the company sends design blueprints over to colleagues in the US, who use additive manufacturing techniques to print components locally. From those components, the finished product can be assembled. Yu’s approach could skirt around customs inspectors (and tariffs). Additive manufacturing lets him build wherever
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