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💴 This Week in Manufacturing

While manufacturing continues incorporating technology and innovative ideas we must remember our roots. Even those roots under the sea! Remembering the needs of the natural world and remembering the history of past innovations are key to growing sustainably. Today’s newsletter focuses on balancing old and new. 

Starting strong, our feature company, IntelliReefs, highlights the plight and importance of coral reefs. Multiple industries and food sources depend on these underwater ecosystems.

This week’s podcast episodes, from a16z and Augmented Ops dive into the histories and potential of nuclear power and AI, respectively.

Next, our headlines cover reducing waste through a 3D weaving retail partnership, green manufacturing, American-made solar panels, and much more!

Finally, our Fun Fact highlights how manufacturing is moving in the right direction through increased jobs.

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⚙ Manufacturing Headlines

• How Georgia became America’s green-manufacturing capital [Business Insider]

• MRMC and Pixelscope partner for AI-powered production [SVG Europe]

• Utah company works on restoring coral reefs [CompanyWeek]

• Walmart and unspun team on 3D fabric weaving technology [Retail Technology]

• Silfab Solar to Secure Additional Domestic Content [North American Clean Energy]

• Schneider Electric to Invest $140M in U.S. Manufacturing [Industrial Distribution]

BUILT ENVIRONMENT

♨️ IntelliReefs

CEO Melody Brenna restores underwater habitat for marine life through the use of proprietary technology.

IntelliReefs hopes to make a global impact — helping to increase the numbers of coral reefs and kelp forests — through its proprietary ocean floor material called Oceanite. As a medium, it mimics the material that coral naturally grows upon.

The company has made Oceanite in the United States with big plans for manufacturing it in Canada, with plans to be made all over the globe.

Upshot: “We’ve come up with a binder that holds these rocks and minerals together, and the water flows through it like a bio-filter.”

FROM THE FEED

📱Factory Work

 🤨 Did You Know?

In the past 10 years,

manufacturing employment has increased

8.2%

^{Source: Zippia}

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