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“Sustainable Manufacturing”

Mar
18
2009

Remanufacturing

It’s what we do. According to Wikipedia, remanufacturing has been described as “… an industrial process in which worn-out products are restored to like-new condition. Through a series of industrial processes in a factory environment, a discarded product is completely disassembled. Useable parts are cleaned, refurbished, and put into inventory. Then the product is reassembled [...]

Mar
3
2009

What are you doing? Want to save the world with us?

  Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Either way, you should know that we are on a mission and we’re all fired up about it. Yeah, we love bikes, it’s true. But we also love the world we live in – the environment, the culture, the beauty of things both natural and man-made. So does [...]

Feb
21
2009

Bringing Sexy 10 speeds Back

We don’t sell used bikes – our bikes are reborn. Used is the new New. If we’re going to get real about the destruction that we cause with the products that we buy, we’re going to have to get over our infatuation with the “new.” Old or used products have soul and history – Used [...]

Feb
11
2009

Sustainable Manufacturing

Sustainable Manufacturing (SM) is the only way we will get out of the mess we’ve made of this planet.  It is about learning to make the stuff we want without destroying the resources we need. So, imagine that every person in the world could own a car.  Can we accept the environmental impact of manufacturing six billion automobiles? [...]