manufacturing
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IKEA Uses A Staggering 1% Of The World’s Wood
The easiest joke to make about IKEA is that few of its products — from shelves to meatballs — are made from what they seem. But even particleboard still requires wood — and a lot of it, when you’re selling 100 million products every year.
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Boeing’s Giant Robot Arms Are Spray-Painting Prodigies
The Boeing 777 is a huge, hulking beast. When you’re trying to churn out 100 of them every year, there’s only one way to pull it off: turn to the robots. These giant, spray-painting robot arms can coat one of the bird’s mammoth wings in mere minutes.
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Apple Reportedly Rejects Up To Eight Million iPhones Delivered By Foxconn
China Business is reporting that Apple has returned up to a mind-boggling eight million iPhones to Foxconn because of quality issues. The total value of the loss to Foxconn could be up to $US1.6 billion — if the numbers are accurate.
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This Is Where Dysons Are Born
Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand dryers and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerising as its products.