Ed Ludlow

It goes through nine different countries and half of the cost of that product is just in moving metal.

It actually doesn't add any value to the product.

So what we're doing is we're consolidating where it makes sense and then where we see opportunities to innovate and design new technologies, we're doing that, such as in our additive manufacturing.

But then that alone doesn't solve the problem.

Right, Kevin.

Materials, yeah.

Well, what's the reality here on your exposure to China then?

You know, we just have 60 seconds or less, but you're on showing the manufacturing.

You can't get it to zero, right, when it comes to China?

That's correct.

Yeah, not immediately.

There are titanium deposits in the U.S.

and there are folks working on that.

But there's also a lot of material in circulation and our technology will allow for refining and recycling of that and putting that back into circular supply chain.

And that's why that Redwood expertise really comes into play.

Kevin Kasichert, great to have you on, CEO of Vulcan Forms.

Congratulations on the round.

Now let's turn a little bit more to politics.

California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke with Bloomberg about regulating AI and addressing the wealth gap that some see as being intertwined with tech.

That was California Governor Gavin Newsom.