On November 9, Australian metal additive manufacturing company SPEE3D began construction of the first phase of its NodeZERO factory in Darwin, the first of 50 distributed factories in its Asia-Pacific CriticalSPEE3D network. The facility, about the size of a basketball court, can be rapidly deployed near bases, mines, and ports to produce critical metal parts locally. SPEE3D's cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) technology has completed 70 deployments worldwide. The on-site metal powder production model is accelerating amid supply chain resilience narratives, and the distributed factory network is driving decentralized consumption of conventional metal powders. Buyer value: each SPEE3D distributed factory is a metal powder consumption node, and Asia-Pacific expansion will bring localized demand for spray powders such as aluminum and copper; powder suppliers can track the progress of its node deployments.