China now has 28 companies capable of building more than 1, 000 CNC machine tools.

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In 2007, the combined amount of CNC metal-cutting and forming tools produced in China was 126, 268, more than double the amount produced in 2005.

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Plugging the proposals into a spreadsheet, he started listing the tools needed to produce each one: A CNC milling machine for an updated, open-source letterpress printer, a laser cutter for a sensor warning pilots of nearby planes.

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