Every second, 15,000 aluminum beverage cans are manufactured. This is a terrific video about how beverage cans are made, and why they look the way they do.
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9:25 am Wed
Feb 8, 2017
The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can
Louis Vuitton converting perfume production lines to hand sanitizer manufacturing
French conglomerate LVMH — owner of Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, and Christian Dior, and other luxury brands — is converting its perfume production lines to crank out hand sanitizer. And no, they won’t be selling high ticket hand sanitizer bottles in their boutiques. “These gels will be delivered free of charge to the health authorities,” the […]
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When contracting with Chinese manufacturers, it's very hard to avoid forced labor
The China Law Blog (previously) is one of my favorite sources of insight into the secret workings of the businesses that produce the majority of the world's daily-use goods.
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Before you ask your Chinese factory for a discount, make sure you won't be kidnapped and/or have your product cloned
A post called "The Right Way to Reduce Your China Product Costs" on China Law Blog (previously) sounds like pretty anodyne stuff, but it turns out to be a catalog of several technothrillers' worth of ultra-weird, real-world skullduggery and chicanery from the world of late-stage capitalism and trade war.
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This $40 training is a step-by-step guide to learning Adobe Premiere
You may not realize it, but some of the biggest films in movie history have been edited using the same tools some of you use to cut your video of vacationing at Disney World. Giant movies from Oscar favorites The Social Network and Gone Girl to blockbusters like Avatar, Deadpool, and last year’s Terminator: Dark […]
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If you are planning on traveling any time soon then TripWipes are about to become your new best friend
Now that the initial furor and shortages have subsided, it’s probably not a bad time to start considering your long-term cleaning and disinfecting plans. Sure, that might seem anywhere from overly cautious to outright ridiculous, but the threat of COVID-19 appears poised to be present for a while and the need for quick travel clean-up […]
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This training package can help teach you to run networks like a professional programmer
With more and more companies moving all their operations into the cloud, the need has never been greater for those with the skills to map exactly how an organization reconstitutes itself in that new environment. Network architects responsible for determining all the communication, storage, and infrastructure needs of an expansive organization are among the most […]
