Inside the Tokyo Office Tower That Makes Its Own Hydrogen From Rooftop Sunlight
On the roof of Shinagawa Intercity, a mixed-use office and retail complex a short walk from Shinagawa Station in Tokyo’s […]
On the Floor
Workshops and processes: a named site, a named company, one procedure and the people running it. Automation, recycling lines, pilot plants.
Why Meta Is Betting on a Low-Carbon Cement Plant in Missouri
In Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a town of fewer than 5,000 people on the west bank of the Mississippi River, a […]
Ricoh’s Shibata Plant Is Learning to Print Solar Cells, Not Just Documents
At a site in Shibata, a town in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, that Ricoh founded in 1967 as an electric-calculator plant […]
Inside the French Data Recovery Lab That Keeps 50,000 Hard Drives on Hand for Spare Parts
Recoveo’s lab in Roanne keeps roughly 50,000 hard drives in stock, not to sell, but to harvest matching parts for drives that fail mechanically. A parts stock that keeps thousands of drives useful instead of scrapped.
Inside the Vauvert Plant That Turns PVC Casing Into Water and Geothermal Wells
A PVC pipe plant in southern France cuts 800 tonnes of well casing and screen a year, for water wells, monitoring boreholes and, increasingly, shallow geothermal loops.
Sims Lifecycle in Tennessee: the 200,000-Square-Foot Plant That Turns Dead Electronics Into Raw Material
Sims Lifecycle Services processes up to 6 million pounds of used electronics a month in La Vergne, Tennessee: reuse first, data destruction, then shredding with hazardous material pulled out ahead.
Inside the Clean Room Where Verkor Perfects EV Batteries Before Scaling Them to a Gigafactory
On a former Siemens site in Grenoble, Verkor runs a clean-room pilot line building battery cells to the exact spec of its Dunkerque gigafactory, plus a training school that has already trained 3,000 people.
MagREEsource: Recycled Rare-Earth Magnets, Made Near Grenoble Without a Mine
In Noyarey, near Grenoble, MagREEsource recycles permanent magnets into new ones without mining new ore, and ships the finished part. Two shifts a day, 50 tonnes a year, and an industrial site on the way.