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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by mensetmanusman on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:09PM (#26587335)
Nope, only Germany had the fiber machines, the reason they take a year to build is the global supply chain is so distributed, and you have to build many parts in series.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by imtringued on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:02AM (#26591611)
It's almost been a year and I don't see an end for masks in sight (even with vaccines). Anyone who didn't put money into more production of masks is just greedy. It certainly wasn't a matter of time.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by mensetmanusman on Friday March 26, 2021 @01:26PM (#26594683)
They are, it just takes a year or so to build these mech/chem tech ology machines when the specialized work force is so small and the training takes so long for knowledge transfer... this flows all the way down to high purity polypropylene sourcing itself.
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