What is an industrial product that, if you could purchase as an investment, you know you could find **local** customers ? - Reddthat

I’m trying to find ideas for what each reader of this question could do given a small loan that could re-“factory” there local economy. I don’t have capital, but I think that some production canning equipment could be used in our local farms. I wonder if I can invest in that instead of a index fund. And I have always wondered where all the little various size rubber grommets and stuff come from … like perhaps it would be interesting to start micro-factories with each just making one thing. Like drawing back manufacturing locally instead of waiting for mega-corps to do it. I think asking this question is getting a list of stuff like that could be helpful to our various locales.