The Shanghai Lockdown: Functioning Through Disruption
What was initially announced as a 5-day lockdown, has continued for over 40 days with no official end date in sight. Here’s what’s really happening.
What’s the Hype About? Sugarcane-Made Products Explained
You might already be familiar with sugarcane and its sweet derivative, cane sugar. We tend to associate these stout stalks with food and how it enhances flavor. However, the rich in sucrose perennial grass is more than just a food chain player. According to US Sugar, ‘sugarcane is considered one of the most environmentally friendly …
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Chinese New Year & Your Business: What You Need to Know
Chinese New Year is just around the corner — the public holiday will take place from January 31st to February 6th, 2022. While a good chunk of the world wraps up another 365 days on December 31st, China will be on their homestretch of the Lunar calendar. When CNY comes around, more often than not, …
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Record Levels of Port Congestion as Peak Season Hits
As we enter the peak season, We want to highlight the port congestion crisis in the simplest way possible, with some screenshots showing the number of vessels anchored out various ports. Los Angeles/Long Beach Around late spring, the number of vessels anchored outside the ports of LA/LB peaked at around 30 vessels. This number briefly …
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The Product Startup Podcast
We greatly enjoyed speaking with Kevin Mako about sustainable manufacturing on The Product Startup Podcast. Mako Design + Invent is a full-service consumer product development firm tailored to small businesses and start-ups. Please check out the links below: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/088-the-importance-of-sustainable-product-manufacturing/id1091774526?i=1000531685400 https://open.spotify.com/episode/54nM23Pw54Y6rcia31PlfY?si=SpM_3qHITFeeF2mDWyMq0A&dl_branch=1 If you are passionate about sustainable product manufacturing, let us know – we can discuss …
Platform88 Partners With LaunchBoom To Make Crowdfunding Easier For Consumer Startups
August 14, 2021 — Platform88, a team of manufacturing and distribution experts inspired by start-ups and focused on sustainability has today announced its partnership with LaunchBoom, a turn-key product launch system that uses proprietary, data-driven systems to ensure crowdfunding success. The partnership will combine Platform88’s resources in building and scaling products with LaunchBoom’s effective product launch …
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They are Facing More Challenges than You Think: Women in Tech Fields & Start-ups
Did you know? China is ahead of the US when it comes to having women in leadership positions. However, on a global scale, women still face incredible obstacles in the tech and start-up world, and improving women’s representation in the economy takes efforts at a number of levels. If you are part of a women-lead …
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The Bullwhip Effect
How the world ran out of semiconductors and how to make sure your company doesn’t end up with supply chain shortages. The shortage of semiconductors reached global proportions in early 2021 when multiple automobile manufacturers in the United States were forced to shut down because they couldn’t produce cars without the microchips. Whether the microchip …
Ocean Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in developing Asian and African nations, where garbage collection systems are often inefficient or nonexistent. The growing plastic waste that ends up in …
Promoting Algae Based Materials
We are excited to partner with Algix, a leader in sustainable materials and a pioneer of algae bio-plastics. The benefits of algae-based materials go well beyond being a substitute for virgin plastic. Algae does an excellent job of sequestering carbon, taking it out of the air, and locking it away in a solid biomass. 1kg …