Journal
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Jun 03 2026
The four factories you should know if you buy a backpack.
Tier-1 vs tier-2 vs spot-market: a field guide to the factory landscape behind every bag you've ever carried.
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Jun 03 2026
Inside the YKK zipper factory making 4.2bn zippers a year.
We visited the Kurobe campus where every Backper zipper starts. Annealing furnaces, 0.02mm tolerances, and one century of metallurgy.