The Re:Manufacture Manifesto
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Europe's golden age is over. Most manufacturers still haven't figured it out.

40 pages. Eight imperatives. Six of the sharpest voices in European manufacturing, distilled into one document your leadership team will actually read.

  • Eight concrete imperatives for manufacturing leaders, not vague recommendations.
  • The five ingredients of China's manufacturing system, and what Europe should do about them.
  • What Peter Wennink learned running ASML for 15 years, condensed into what matters Monday morning.
  • Zero corporate fluff. Zero keynote theater. A reckoning with what's actually happening.
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Why this matters right now

For forty years, European manufacturers ran fat and happy. That era is over.

Reliable margins. Predictable supply chains. The luxury of not having to change. Gone. Tariffs move weekly. Markets close overnight by executive order. A Chinese EV is developed in 18 months. A European one takes four to five years.

Every strategic assumption your company made before 2022 deserves reexamination. Not because those assumptions were wrong. They were right for their time. The time has changed.

The companies that thrive in the next decade will not be the ones with the best strategy for the old world. They'll be the ones who saw the new world first, and moved. Speed of comprehension is now a competitive advantage in itself.

"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu."
Peter Wennink, Former CEO, ASML
Who said it

Six of the sharpest voices in European manufacturing, in one document.

The manifesto distils what was actually said at Re:Manufacture 2026. No committee-written summaries. No press-release language. The provocative, specific, uncomfortable parts.

Peter Wennink
Peter Wennink
Former CEO, ASML
Built ASML into Europe's most valuable company over 15 years as CEO. Author of a landmark strategic report to the Dutch government on European industrial renewal. Architect of the collaborative European supply chain model.
Tom Van de Weghe
Tom Van de Weghe
China Innovation Expert & Author
Reported from inside China for five years. Studied AI at Stanford. Author and speaker on Chinese industrial innovation. Returns regularly to China to track the front edge of manufacturing and technology development firsthand.
Stéphane Garelli
Stéphane Garelli
Former MD, World Economic Forum
The man who literally defined global competitiveness. Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and founder of the IMD World Competitiveness Center. Has tracked the global business environment for four decades.
Joeri Schasfoort
Joeri Schasfoort
Economist, Money & Macro
Academic economist and creator of the Money & Macro YouTube channel, translating global economic trends into plain language for over a million subscribers. Studies the structural forces reshaping the global economy and European industry.
Cagan Koc
Cagan Koc
Bloomberg Journalist & Author
Former Bloomberg Netherlands Bureau Chief. Co-author of a book on the US-China chip war and ASML's central role in it. Has conducted rare access interviews at ASML headquarters and with US, Dutch, and Taiwanese policymakers.
Batist Leman
Batist Leman
CEO, Azumuta
Founder and CEO of Azumuta, the platform helping manufacturers raise shopfloor performance by digitising and standardising how work gets done. Creator of the Re:Manufacture initiative, bringing together Europe's sharpest industrial minds.
The kick in the butt has arrived
Read it. Share it. Then decide what to build.

40 pages of sharpened thinking on where European manufacturing goes next. Built for leaders who don't have time for keynote theater.

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Re:Manufacture 2027

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