Slow wool challenge a rush for these crafty competitors
By Rachael Lucas

Teams compete to be fastest to blade-shear a sheep, spin the wool and knit a jumper in one day as part of a global challenge to produce wool sustainably.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-05/wool-challenge-puts-spotlight-on-slow-manufacturing/105488282

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Large Japanese companies are surprisingly optimistic in the second-quarter "tankan" survey despite U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/economy/tankan-july-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #boj #tankan #surveys #japaneseeconomy #inflation #carmakers #manufacturing #tariffs #donaldtrump #us

Former Intel CEO Gelsinger advises Japan's Rapidus to distinguish itself in some way from Taiwan's TSMC. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/27/companies/playground-gelsinger/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #intel #ai #tech #manufacturing #chipmakers #rapidus #taiwan #hokkaido #chitose

Japan needs a big, beautiful trade deal with the United States, and the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel deal has been suggested as a model. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/big-beautiful-trade-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business#nipponsteel #ussteel #us #usjapanrelations #acquisitions #donaldtrump #steel #manufacturing #ryoseiakazawa #tariffs #trade

"Elon Musk was the latest to try the lights out approach and realised it didn’t work.

Instead, if the US wants to succeed with a competitive manufacturing sector, it needs to look to post-war Japan. Workers were an integral part of the refinement and adaptive nature of manufacturing processes, in part because of the company-based (rather than industry-speciifc) union structure."

https://shows.acast.com/debunkingeconomics/episodes/bringing-manufacturing-home-the-japanese-way

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