Through four pilots at the FT Hub, we’ve been surfacing learning about the potential to scale distributed manufacturing in different contexts. This deep dive aims to collate the learning from our pilot portfolio, and extend it with six additional case studies.

This brief shares the key lessons learned from COVIDaction Local Production Local Solutions (LPLS).  Through its work, LPLS identified that localisation of production, distributed manufacturing and circular economy approaches can help increase resilience to emergencies and improve the responsiveness of production systems to community needs. These approaches can also help to reduce waste, limit carbon emissions, and mitigate the impacts of production systems on the environment.