Manufacturing & Materials

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Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Fab Officially Finds A New Owner On Tuesday, Fab cofounder Jason Goldberg announced that the e-commerce hub he founded in 2011 with Bradford Shellhammer had a new owner: PCH International, a custom design and manufacturing business.
Fast Company March 2015 Andrew Rice	American Giant Guns For Gap By Doubling Down On The USA American Giant is working to reengineer its back end, experimenting with a counterintuitive approach to making clothes -- and creating American jobs in the process.
Fast Company Martin Lindstrom	What Tomorrow's Schools Can Learn From Lego Today The physical school, with a teacher in a classroom, brings fundamental values to the table. But how to deliver those values? My years with Lego have taught me the answer is almost always a combination of virtual and physical.
Fast Company Elizabeth Segran	Be The James Bond Of Your Office, In Menswear Inspired By British Spies Inspired by a British government agency, a team of MIT grads decided to start a company that incorporates the latest technologies into a line of sharp, fashionable men's suits.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	48 Years Later, This Is How Fiskars Keeps Improving On Its Classic Orange-Handled Scissors The conference room table at Fiskars's Madison, Wisconsin U.S. headquarters is littered with the process of scissor innovation.
Fast Company February 2015 Jonathan Ringen	How Lego Became The Apple Of Toys Every September, a group of around 50 Lego employees descends upon Spain's Mediterranean coast, armed with sunblock, huge bins of Lego bricks, and a decade's worth of research into the ways children play.
Fast Company February 2015 Danielle Sacks	Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario Fights The Fights Worth Fighting Patagonia is sort of a paradox. You manufacture clothing. You are in the business of making and selling stuff, and yet you tell people not to buy it.
Chemistry World December 11, 2014	Canadian clamp down on mercury The Canadian government is pressing ahead with new rules that will prohibit the production or importation of most products that contain mercury, or any of its compounds.
Chemistry World December 10, 2014	Saint-Gobain surprises Sika with buyout bid French building materials firm Saint-Gobain is to take over its Swiss rival, construction chemicals specialist Sika.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	New Smart Fabric Manufacturer Looking to Break Into Defense Market Unlike most other wearable sensors, which typically measure physiological data such as heart rate and respiration, the sensors in Bebop's fabric can also measure other kinds of contact between a person and his or her environment.
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