Funnily, they no longer make either of these products. The glass jar division was sold decades ago, and the aerospace sector was purchased by BAE last year. Ball is still the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans, however. They also make plastic bottles.
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atomicorange@lemmy.world 10 months ago
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?
atomicorange@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Capitalism baby! If nobody buys your environmentally friendly aluminum cups they won’t do much good, and people are more likely to buy a product with “luxurious” feeling packaging. They’re likely still a net benefit vs plastic solo cups, but the market leads to perverse incentives.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.
Wren@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They’re a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.
Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to Houston.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Probably
huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there’s a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They purposely try to spread it around as much as they can to avoid unbalancing the economic and academic equilibrium of the states.
They would save a lot of money by just building everything in one place, say, Texas or New Mexico, but the cost of running NASA, and the academic expertise required to do so would pull so much economic activity, companies, jobs, taxes, and all the knock on effects to that state that local businesses, residents, land values would all spin out of balance, and the states who missed out would have a noticeable dip in business and income tax revenue. They didn’t need to build the Saturn 5 first stage in… Wherever, and then ship it all the way down to the Panama canal and back up to Port Canaveral, but they did it to share the load and the economic stimulus.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That’s awesome.
Wren@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Yeah! I didn’t know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you’re in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve had one of their cases for my Epiphone for 20+ years now, I’ll be dead long before that thing ever needs replaced.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Mok98@feddit.it 10 months ago
Only from that perspective, the “eyes” are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 months ago
It knows it’s going to see some shit
Nanook@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It does
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 months ago
A bra company made NASA’s spacesuits.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about “At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres.” To this sharp old girl talking about “I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said “Here’s your pin” and I stuck her in the behind with it.”
I like to think those two are married.
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would love to know the name of the doc if you can remember!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 months ago
That’s a great story.
Of curse, today the supervisor would be arrested and put on a terrorist watch list.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 months ago
apex32@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 months ago
Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Yamaha has entered the chat
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Corporation#History * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company#Histor…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i really hope they stay in the electric sax game however long it takes me to save up the that much money
MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still remember the Yamaha paper craft site. So many hours of fun! So sad they closed it
brossman@infosec.pub 10 months ago
honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
higgsboson@piefed.social 10 months ago
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Same with Ball and canning jars.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And that’s only naming a few.
mrunicornman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a cheap Honeywell soundbar. It’s quite crappy but enough for podcasts.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
And just about half of all beverage cans in the world.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar… Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
Routhinator@startrek.website 10 months ago
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Muncie, Indiana is the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
May be a region thing. A Ball jar is equally genericized and supplants mason especially when used literally. There are still Ball branded ball jars here… not mason… I’ll check but I don’t think they even use mason in the description.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
mrunicornman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
SuperUserDO@piefed.ca 10 months ago
And fiber optic cables!
Gork@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 10 months ago
what
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They also made balloons!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Lol balls
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
apotheotic@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Thank you for this, i had the reverbed “balls” in my head with kurtis’ silly face
MightyThistle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even the telescope looks surprised!
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ball was spun off and is a subsidiary of Rubbermaid.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 10 months ago
Elite Ball knowledge
Hupf@feddit.org 10 months ago
anonochronomus@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Literally the glasses company from Videodrome.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Capitalism as it is.
ODuffer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
My 3 favorite activities.
higgsboson@piefed.social 10 months ago
They sold the rights to make the magic wand abput a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
vrek@programming.dev 10 months ago
Just like TI… They no longer make the famous calculator
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They fucked up San onofre so bad it’s now being decommissioned 😡
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Just Zaibatsu things…
excral@feddit.org 10 months ago
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
ch00f@lemmy.world 10 months ago
theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-prod…
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Mitsubishi and GE can beat that.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They own the Sheinhardt Wig Company and NBC!
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