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Tesla’s New Gigafactory Will Be Built in Northern Mexico
On Tuesday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador officially announced that Tesla would build its latest production plant in the northern state of Nuevo León, which shares a border with the U.S. The new Tesla plant would be the biggest one yet, according to AMLO’s statement to the press (link in Spanish). But Elon Musk…
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Foxconn Won’t Get Tax Subsidies After Failing to Deliver Factory and Jobs It Promised
President Trump promised that a Foxconn manufacturing plant would create 13,000 jobs in the state of Wisconsin, even calling it the “eighth wonder of the world.” But the electronics maker never built the factory it had originally pitched to Wisconsin legislators, nor did it hire anywhere close to 13,000 people. Now, Foxconn will not receive…
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Please Enjoy This Supremely Awesome Video Of Giant Metal Parts Being Forged Inside A Factory
Video: I don’t think you need any convincing to watch all that happens inside Kihlberg Steel AB, a forging factory that does things like ring rolling, open-die forging and hammer forging. Basically, you’ll see giant pieces of metal get really hot and then have some really cool things done to it. What more do you…
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Inside An Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory
Image Cache: There’s always a very special thrill in visiting silent and deteriorating industrial places where hundreds of men and women worked amidst loud machines decades ago. It was not a different feeling taking these photos in the abandoned power plant building of a long gone fabric factory.