In Aiken, South Carolina, there is a company that holds the fate of America’s national security and technological future in its hands. That company is AGY Corporation, the last remaining U.S. manufacturer of advanced glass fiber yarn.

This material is essential to ballistic missiles, military and commercial aircraft, AI infrastructure, and advanced microelectronics. As AGY CEO Al Ridilla put it bluntly, “Missiles cannot fly without AGY. You can’t have AI without AGY.”

This isn’t just rhetoric.

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