Interesting commentary on Bloomberg supply chains.13 Jun 2024 16:03
Manufacturers after Covid have been reviewing supply chains. Only a minority followed through with re-shoring as some areas have difficulty recruiting committed workers into particular factories, some jobs require lots of skills training, some have unfavourable tax policies putting up hiring costs and so forth.
A far more favourable strategy whether, materials, components or skilled manufacturing was to have a complete second supply line. Therefore if one sourcing route failed they had adequate capacity from another source. So if the main source for what they needed was China, they had supplies from Mexico and Malaysian. The advantage and relevance to Pensana is of course the offering of Angola as a source of rare earth concentrates of ores. What is key is for Pensana demonstrate where such contracts are in play and they fulfil a critical role in secondary supply chains.