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During the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Obama called Youngstown’s $70 million National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute the nation’s “first manufacturing innovation institute,” and said that it turned a “once-shuttered warehouse” into a “state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything,” according to The Vindicator and a transcript of the president’s remarks. The president announced the launch of three similar manufacturing hubs that will have the departments of Defense and Energy partner with businesses to help “turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs,” the transcript said. President Obama then called on Congress to help create a network of 15 such hubs so as to ensure “that the next revolution in manufacturing is Made in America [sic].” For more, read The Vindicator story and the transcript of the president’s remarks.