This is a video of a steel mill producing the world’s longest pieces of rebar (the length seen above isn’t even half as long as it eventually becomes) for use in construction. Or, if you’re playing a survival zombie game like Dead Island, creating makeshift weapons. I’m playing Dead Island
This is a tour of the Kyowa Co. Ltd. rubber band factory, detailing how the snappy bands are made step by step. Kyowa has been making rubber bands since 1923 (happy 100 year anniversary!), so clearly they know what they’re doing. Me? I never have the slightest clue what I’m
Because frozen pizzas serve as the entire base of my personal food pyramid, this is a video tour inside a factory that makes my dinner standard. I already know what I’m having tonight! “Frozen pizza?” No, but only because I bought two new boxes of cereal on my lunch break
This is a video detailing how contact lenses are manufactured at the DK Medivision factory. There’s nobody explaining what’s happening at any given moment, so you have to sort of figure it out on your own. You know, CREATE YOUR OWN NARRATIVE. From what I could gather, contacts are actually
In How It’s Made news, this is a video from business Insider taking a tour of one of Ben & Jerry’s two St. Albans, Vermont factories, that run 24 hours and together crank out nearly 1,000,000 pints of ice cream every day. Damn that’s a lot of ice cream! I’m
Because who hasn’t dreamed of sticking their arms under those heat lamps, McDonald’s owner/operator Stephen Patula takes us on a first person tour of fries and hash browns being prepared at his restaurant while he sings a bit of ‘When Will My Life Begin?’ from Tangled. That’s cool, now make
This is a video from a Korean foundry where giant hex nuts are made (imagine the Erector Set you could build with those things!), detailing the process in which steel rods are transformed into some of the biggest nuts I’ve ever seen. The North Atlantic right whale excluded of course,
This is a video tour of South Korea’s Machang Music & Pictures, the only vinyl record factory in the country. In the video, the process in which a master disc is produced and used to press vinyl blanks is documented, which I found most interesting. It always blows my mind