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The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
Manufacturing is the physical engine of the global economy, yet most business coverage ignores its day-to-day realities. In each episode, Lucas and Luna walk the factory floor — metaphorically and sometimes literally — to examine how goods are made, moved, and improved. They analyze production data from the Institute for Supply Management and the Federal Reserve's industrial production index, discuss real bottlenecks at ports and chip fabs, and explore how tier-one suppliers are automating…
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The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial BusinessHow a Swiss Factory Makes Cement That Absorbs Carbon
Cement production accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions. But a startup near Zurich called Neustark has found a way to turn demolished concrete…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Is Making Fish Feed from Beer Waste
Every year, the brewing industry generates roughly 10 million tons of spent grain globally — a wet, nutrient-rich byproduct that mostly goes to low-value…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How an Indian Factory Is Making Leather from Mangoes
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Kanpur, India, where a startup called FruitLeather is turning mango waste — peels, pits, and rejected fruit — into a leather…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Is Turning Food Waste into Industrial Chemicals
Episode 107 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into a specific case: how the Japanese chemical company Mitsubishi Chemical is building a commercial-scale plant…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a British Factory Turns Bread into Beer
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a bakery-waste distillery in Manchester, UK, that takes unsold sandwich bread from supermarkets and ferments it into…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Making Car Tires from Dandelions
Dandelions — the weed you can't get rid of — might be the future of rubber. Episode 105 visits the Fraunhofer Institute in Münster, Germany, and the…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swiss Factory Is Making Chocolate from Bean to Bar in 3 Hours
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a Swiss factory that has compressed the entire chocolate-making process from raw cocoa bean to finished bar into just…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Is Making Leather from Mushrooms
On this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a Dutch factory that is producing leather from mycelium — the root structure of mushrooms…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Turns Greenhouse CO2 into Baking Soda
Most carbon capture projects bury CO2 underground. This episode takes you inside a factory in the Netherlands that does something different: it pipes waste CO2…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swedish Factory Is Making Steel from Hydrogen
Episode 101 of The Manufacturing Podcast takes you inside HYBRIT, the Swedish pilot plant that is replacing coal with green hydrogen to produce fossil-free…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
The Robot That Packs 1200 Boxes an Hour
Episode 100 of The Manufacturing Podcast takes us inside a factory in Denmark where a robot named Sloth picks and packs e-commerce orders at 1,200 boxes an…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Turns Flowers into Biodegradable Plastics
Episode 99 of The Manufacturing Podcast takes you inside a Dutch factory that processes millions of tons of flower waste from the Netherlands' massive…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Singapore Factory Recycles Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a Singapore-based factory is solving one of the toughest problems in the battery…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Is Making Fabrics from Algae
Episode 97 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into the world of algae-based textiles. Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Brittany, France, where seaweed is…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Canadian Factory Is Turning Mining Waste into Rare Earth Magnets
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a factory in Saskatchewan is taking low-grade mining tailings and turning them into rare earth magnets for electric…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Texas Factory Makes Jet Fuel from Cow Manure
Episode 95 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a Texas factory that converts dairy farm waste into sustainable aviation fuel. Lucas explains the pyrolysis…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Making Hydrogen from Plastic Waste
Episode 94 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores a German pilot plant near Munich that uses microwave pyrolysis to turn mixed plastic waste into hydrogen gas…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Texas Factory Is Making Jet Fuel from Cow Manure
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a Texas-based startup is turning dairy farm waste into synthetic jet fuel. They break…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Is Making Bricks from Contaminated Harbor Sediment
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a revolutionary factory in the Netherlands that transforms contaminated harbor sediment into durable building bricks…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Colorado Factory Is Making Concrete from Captured CO2
Episode 91 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a Colorado factory that is turning captured carbon dioxide into mineralized aggregate for concrete. Lucas and…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Scottish Factory Turns Whisky Waste into Green Hydrogen
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a distillery in Scotland that is turning whisky production waste into green hydrogen. They explore the science behind the…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Norwegian Factory Is Making Fertilizer from Mining Waste
Episode 89 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into a Norwegian factory that is turning mine tailings — the waste rock left over from mining — into mineral-based…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Is Making Car Parts from Hemp
Episode 88 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits France, where a small factory near Reims is turning hemp stalks into lightweight panels for car door interiors…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Making Jet Fuel from Sunlight
Episode 87 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits the outskirts of Jülich, Germany, where a pilot plant called Synhelion is doing something that sounds almost too…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Is Making Steel from Hydrogen
Lucas and Luna visit the world's first operating hydrogen-based steel plant in Japan. The episode explores how Mitsubishi and Nippon Steel are piloting a…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Is Making Bricks from Industrial Sludge
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Antwerp, Belgium, where a company called Circlite is turning industrial water treatment sludge into high-quality building…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Turns Coffee Waste into Bio-Composite Pellets
Episode 84 of The Manufacturing Podcast. Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Hamburg that processes spent coffee grounds from local cafes into bio-composite…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Finnish Factory Is Turning Pine into Carbon Fiber
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a Finnish factory is creating carbon fiber from pine pulp instead of oil. They dive…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Making Leather from Apple Waste
Episode 82 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores how a factory in Bavaria, Germany, is turning apple pomace—the leftover pulp from juice and cider…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swiss Factory Turns Ocean Plastic into 3D Printer Filament
In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit a Swiss factory outside Basel that is turning discarded fishing nets and ocean plastic into high-quality 3D printer…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swedish Factory Uses Heat Pumps to Cut Steel Emissions
Steel production accounts for roughly 7 percent of global CO2 emissions. But a factory in Sweden is proving that heavy industry can decarbonise without…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Chinese Factory Turns Solar Panels into Building Materials
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Jiangsu, China, that recycles decommissioned solar panels into high-performance roofing tiles and insulation. They break down…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How Indonesia Is World Battery Hub with Nickel Processing
Indonesia is on track to become the world's second-largest battery producer by 2027, leapfrogging traditional manufacturing hubs. In this episode, Lucas…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Turning Wind Turbine Blades into Concrete Reinforcement
Episode 77 of The Manufacturing Podcast looks at a factory in Germany that is solving one of the renewable energy industry's stickiest waste problems…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Spanish Factory Turns Olive Waste into Bioplastics
Episode 76 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in Jaén, Spain, that turns olive pomace — the leftover pulp and pits from olive oil production — into…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Tennessee Factory Turns Sawmill Waste into Carbon-Negative Biochar
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in rural Tennessee that takes sawdust and wood chips from nearby sawmills — material that would otherwise rot and release…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Kentucky Factory Turns Bourbon Waste into Valuable Chemicals
Kentucky produces 95% of the world's bourbon, and with it comes millions of tons of spent grain called 'stillage.' This episode visits a factory…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swiss Factory Turns Air into Drinking Water
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Switzerland that has commercialized atmospheric water generation. They explore…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Japanese Factory Turns Scrap Kimono Silk into Industrial Fibers
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a century-old textile factory in Kyoto, Japan, is transforming discarded kimono silk into high-performance…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Turns Coffee Grounds into Biofuel
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a factory in Belgium is turning coffee grounds into biofuel. They discuss the process, the scale of the operation…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Michigan Factory Uses AI to Turn Plastic Waste into 3D Printer Filament
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a factory in Detroit, Michigan, is using AI-powered sorting and chemical recycling to turn mixed plastic waste into…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Turns Cow Manure into Bioplastics
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in the Netherlands that is turning cow manure into biodegradable bioplastics. They explore the process: how a dairy farm's…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Danish Factory Turns Butter Smells into Perfume
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a dairy processing plant in Denmark that captures volatile organic compounds from butter…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Singapore Factory Is Growing Leather from Mushroom Roots
Lucas and Luna visit a Singapore-based biotech company that is growing animal-free leather from mushroom mycelium. They break down the fermentation process…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Turns Wine Waste into Leather
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a French factory that transforms grape pomace—the skins, seeds, and stems left over from…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Texas Factory Is Cooling Data Centers with Waste Heat
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising industrial innovation: a factory in Texas that captures waste…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How One Factory Is Printing Houses with Recycled Concrete
Episode 64 of The Manufacturing Podcast looks at a factory in Texas that is 3D-printing houses using recycled concrete aggregate from demolished buildings…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a UK Factory Uses AI to Turn Garbage into Recycled Metal
Episode 63 of The Manufacturing Podcast explores how a UK-based metal recycling factory, RegenMet, uses computer vision and robotic sorting to recover…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Turns Coffee Grounds into Biofuel
In episode 62 of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a Belgian factory near Ghent converts over 30,000 tons of spent coffee grounds from…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Turns Coffee Grounds into Biofuel
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Belgium that collects spent coffee grounds from cafes, offices, and train stations and turns them into biodiesel and biomass…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Finnish Factory Turns Pine Bark into Carbon Fiber
In episode 60 of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a Finnish factory that transforms pine bark, a forestry byproduct, into lightweight carbon…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a French Factory Turns Wine Waste into Leather
Episode 59 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits Burgundy to explore how Vegea, a materials startup, transforms grape skins, seeds, and stems from winemaking…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Dutch Factory Turns Flower Waste into Paper and Packaging
Episode 58 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in the Netherlands that processes tulip and other flower waste into pulp for paper and packaging…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Factory in Norway Uses Salmon Waste to Make Biogas
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a Norwegian fish-processing factory is turning salmon waste — heads, guts, and bones —…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Uses CO2 to Make Carbon-Negative Foam
Episode 56 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in Bavaria where a startup called CarbonFroth is capturing carbon dioxide from a nearby cement plant…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swedish Factory Is Making Steel Without Coal
Steel production accounts for about seven percent of global carbon emissions. But a plant in northern Sweden is trying to change that. In this episode, Lucas…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a UK Factory Turns Algae into Bioplastic Packaging
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Cornwall, UK, that grows algae in tubular bioreactors and processes it into biodegradable plastic packaging. The hosts break…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Swiss Factory Recycles Solar Panels into New Ones
Millions of solar panels are reaching end-of-life, and most end up in landfills. But a factory in Switzerland has built a process that recovers 95 percent of…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Spanish Factory Uses Olive Pit Waste to Power Itself
Episode 52 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits Jaén, Spain, where olive oil producer Grupo Gallo partners with biomass plant operator Abengoa to turn 12,000…
- The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a Belgian Factory Turns Landfill Gas into Electricity
Lucas and Luna visit a factory in Ghent, Belgium, where methane from an old landfill is piped directly into a fuel cell system to generate 2.2 megawatts of…