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Everyone knows than an isolated species of plants or animals will develop unique characteristics... But did you know? The United States has a class of ships that have their own unique features and are geographically isolated from the rest of the world? Yep! Speciation can apply to engineering! Meet the Lake Freightor, a unique type of cargo ship only found on the American great lakes. You've probably heard of the most famous lost freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, but what you probably haven't heard is this: 1. Due to the lack of rust, Lake freighters regularly survive to be more than 80 years old, with the oldest ship staying in service for 112 years. 2. There was a lake freighter with 9 WWII battle stars that only retired in the early 2010s, another, with 2 battle stars, is still in service... see if you can spot it in the pictures below 3. The US stopped building lake freighters in the 1970s, but recently resumed, with a new ship entering service in 2022.

The average "drop piece" that our comp scraps takes 2 years to be recycled back into an aluminum plate. Wasteful on time, energy, logistics... This "scrap" is tracked perfectly at @noxmetals and automatically nested by Factos to help customers who can't wait 2 years

A supplier I was working with for an emergency stock piece informed me that the order is delayed because they “needed to understand the nest with another order for that material” It made me realize that there are still metal suppliers out there who have to hand nest orders. This is something that @noxmetals has solved months ago with cross-order autonesting. While the incumbent is still busting out paper, Nox has already distributed the plan digitally, cut, and shipped the order to an American that needs it yesterday. Metal at the speed of software