Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility

Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by bombcar on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:08PM (#35677441)

It’s highly automated but you still need people to watch the machines. Many Lego factory videos are available.

If this lets them source much of the plastic locally, it will save on millions of boxes being shipped across the ocean. That’s a huge reduction in carbon, even if the local manufacturing costs a bit more.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by bobthepanda on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:44PM (#35679260)

Also, the general container shortage and supply chain issues over the years have showed that you want to hedge your bets with a global supply chain.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by mupuff1234 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @04:21PM (#35680140)

Easy, build a container from Lego.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by hanniabu on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:12PM (#35679506)

Let's not pretend they care about the reduction in carbon. They'd only care about reduced shipping costs.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by nonethewiser on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:26PM (#35683017)

Their product is literally made out of oil.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by vidarh on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:14AM (#35684537)

Apparently they've started phasing in pieces made of bio-polyethylene made from sugarcane. But I haven't found anything about what proportion of their bricks that makes up, and presumably they'd be publicising it heavily for PR purposes if it was a large proportion so I'm guessing it's not a very large amount yet.

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by dzamo_norton on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:36PM (#35691377)

Is making bricks out of oil as bad as burning it?

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