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A bottleneck in your manufacturing process is a point in production that dictates the maximum throughput that a system can handle. Ideally, manufacturing systems are not designed to operate at their maximum capacity to allow for the ability to scale production without having to design and implement an entirely new system. However, in some processes, […]

Next time you are holding a can of soda, stop and think for a minute where that aluminum can has been. 75% of all aluminum that has ever been produced is still being used. That means your can of soda has quite the story behind it. Aluminum cans are 100% recyclable. This is far superior […]

What happens when the largest buyer of recycled consumer waste decides that it no longer wants to be the recipient of the world’s trash? That is the question facing municipalities and recycling companies in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In a dramatic move last April, the city of Ipswich in Queensland, Australia decided to […]

The United States produces an average of 13 million tons of shingle waste annually from roofing manufacturers and roof tear-offs. However, according to Business Insider, only about 10% of these 13 million tons of shingles are sent to material recovery facilities for recycling and reuse. Asphalt shingles are the most popular roofing material in the […]

The future is here Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are reaching the capabilities that the media has romanticized for years. Simple robotic arms used for repetitive functions have been a staple of the manufacturing industry since their introduction in the early 1960s. Fast forward nearly 60 years later, manufacturing and other industrial processes are about to […]

When it comes to curbside recycling, there are three types of people: those who recycle; those who don’t recycle, and those who recycle correctly. The growth of commingled (single-stream) recycling—where all recyclable products are placed in a single container for curbside pickup—has dramatically increased the rate of recycling by as much as 50 percent in […]