Thursday, November 30, 2006

The Making of…a LEGO

Businessweek.com article LEGO and the manufacturing process...

Few interesting tidbits like:

- "The bricks are so meticulously made that the company claims that out of every 1 million elements made, just 18 will be declared defective and removed from the set. Impressive numbers, considering that the LEGO Group is producing 15 billion components a year—that's 1.7 million items an hour, or 28,500 a minute."

- "Tire production accounts for some of that number; the factory also produces 306 million tiny rubber tires a year. In fact, going by that number, LEGO is the world's No. 1 tire manufacturer."

And more!

The Making of... a LEGO [via /.]

1 comment:

Digital Davo said...

Absolute classic - never knew that LEGO was the worlds top tire (tyre?) maker !!