Self reliance is not an isolationist thought, it’s the opposite. It’s a thought I want to expand on, given the state of play in current affairs, as self reliance is crucial to collaborating. Manufacturers throughout the world have had to withstand multiple new variables impacting the supply of raw materials since the beginning of 2020. For the UK it started with Brexit. Then came the global pandemic. Now we have a war in the west. Other major events have and continue to affect the global supply; the US-China trade war and the energy crisis for example.
Action is plentiful when it comes to the wide scale exploration of solutions to mitigate surging demand for critical metals in the energy transition. There is a great deal to be positive about despite the challenges we face. ‘Brexit – Covid – Russia invasion of Ukraine’ But limiting it now to these three major and distinctly…
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