This morning’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin has a great feature article on the Ball aluminum can plant in Kapolei. Manufacturing beverage cans takes more technological capability than most consumers would believe. It’s good to see a mainland company that is still producing products on Oahu for the state of Hawaii.
I still don’t understand why Frito-Lay closed its chip plant in 2006. See this Pacific Business News article for more details. It makes much more sense to bring the raw materials to Oahu in bulk on container ships. Why is Frito-Lay making its chips on the mainland and shipping them here when the finished product is fragile and filled with air? We can fit many more potatoes than potato chips in a cargo container.
Tags: economy, environment, Hawaii, kapolei, manufacturing, Oahu, technology
