Mega Factories
IKEA has about 300 stores in 36 countries. It also includes 42 distribution centers and around 100 suppliers. These "mega factories" were create to keep up with the incredibly high demand of consumers across the world. Their chipboard products are the most produced and consumed good in IKEA. They have factories dedicated to producing a single type of product such as dressers. The amount of material they use in each of these facilities is hard to grasp and the production machines are equally as crazy. After visiting IKEA in Kansas City, I was able to see that a majority of their products are made out of chipboard that came from these facilities.
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