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How a Vietnamese Factory Uses Drones to Plant Mangroves
Episode 45 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in Vietnam's Mekong Delta that pivoted from producing disposable chopsticks to manufacturing drones that plant mangrove seeds. Lucas and Luna walk through the numbers: 40,000 seeds per drone per day, 80% survival rate, and a carbon credit revenue stream that now exceeds the factory's original product line. They discuss the engineering challenge of building a lightweight seed-dropping mechanism, the regulatory hurdles of flying drones in protected coastal zones, and why a chopstick factory had the precision skills to pull this…
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