Paintmakers Are Running Out of the Color Blue (bloomberg.com) 52
Dutch paint maker Akzo is running out of ingredients to make some shades of blue, the latest fallout from the global supply-chain disruptions that are spreading across manufacturers. From a report: "There is one basic color tint that is extremely difficult to get," Chief Executive Officer Thierry Vanlancker said in an interview Wednesday after publishing third-quarter earnings. "It's creating complete chaos." In addition to the bluish hue, Akzo Nobel is having trouble sourcing the tinplate used to make metal cans, forcing the Amsterdam-based company to ship empty pots from one country to another for filling. It also called a force majeure on deliveries of some exterior wall paints because an additive needed to make them waterproof is unavailable. The supply-chain snarls that have sown disarray across industries are raising prices and creating shortages of some basic household products. Paint makers, which typically rely on hundreds of additives and chemicals, have warned for months of higher costs and logistical issues. Akzo Nobel earlier Wednesday said the spiraling costs and materials shortages will last through the middle of next year.
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Anything I don't like is communism, and I don't like this, so this must be communism. Q.E.D.
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I guess we'll just have to use Red paint instead...
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Interior decorators are feeling pretty fuchsia over this.
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The only november 2021 elections in the Netherlands are about some proposed mergers between towns... I'm not sure what influence blue paint has on these.
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> I'm not sure what influence blue paint has on these.
Russian PsyOps is most effective when you don't even know it's happening. They got you... they got you good.
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Netherlands
Just don't run out of orange.
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Dear comrade,
Due to supply chain issues our latest russian plots are delayed.
Meanwhile we will be reselling our current supply.
Make no mistake, these russian plots are of highest quality though they may not arrive in their original packaging.
Have a nice day and thank you for your patronage.
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The best part is that these clowns are supposed to be the 'winners' of the 'great meritocracy' ...
Anybody who thinks politics and meritocracy have anything to do with each other knows nothing about either.
Painting the town. (Score:2)
Ah good. Blues always been depressing. Make plenty of red so we can paint towns with it.
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The effect of a blues shortage on country music lyrics cannot be understated!
A good thing (Score:2)
And anything that spurs innovation is also good. White paint used to be very toxic and dangerous to make. Now it isnâ(TM)t. There is almost always a better safer solution, if only there is motivation to develop it.
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Reusing containers is good. There is no reason not to have incentives to continue this. There are no safety issues, and we empty cargo ships dead heading to manufacturers anyway.
And anything that spurs innovation is also good. White paint used to be very toxic and dangerous to make. Now it isnâ(TM)t. There is almost always a better safer solution, if only there is motivation to develop it.
I didn't understand it to be container re-use. I understood it to be "we have empties in CountryX but want to fill them in CountryY so we're going to waste shipping capacity relocating the empties." Could be wrong, but that's my read.
A win (Score:2)
I never liked blue anyway, so I consider this a win.
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That explains your position on air pollution.
Feeling blue about blue (Score:2)
Should be from the "feeling-blue-about-blue dept". Please update!
please enter a reasonable title!?!?!?!?! (Score:2)
That de-escalated quickly (Score:2)
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Blue color has a shocking sad history behind it. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Blue color has a shocking sad history behind it (Score:5, Interesting)
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Yeah, everybody knows that American businesses in the 17th century took a firm stand against inhumane things like slavery.
Wait.
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Modern companies are by no means saints but comparing them to an enterprise that gives Stalin a run for his money in terms of brutality is seriously mental.
Only if you ignore the larger picture. Corporations have in effect bought up governments, and the governments now handle the military actions while the corporations focus on the economic exploitation. So people are still literally being killed directly to support commerce, while corporations' actions still kill people indirectly as well, and there are still slaves laboring to produce consumer goods under corporate control in some nations.
TL;DR: The largest corporations are still killing and enslaving people
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Lets see and keep it on topic and focused on India and US corporations. I raise you the Bhopal disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Want to repeat that line again about modern companies? Personally I think the person with the seriously twisted world view is yourself.
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I was trying to point out the ridiculousness of comparing modern companies/organisations to ones that existed 400+ years ago. The world was a very different place back then. I'm not saying that what the EIC did was all fine and dandy because of that, just that the comparison is bad.
A better approach would be to compare the EIC to their contemporaries, which is what I was trying to do, but at least partly failed at.
On the subject of modern companies: I do think that a lot of the bad stuff that happened and h
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Indigo is an interesting pigment as it is the only widely used pigment that is not absorbed into, or chemically linked to, or deposited within the fiber it dyes. It simply adheres to the surface. The only significant use of indigo today is to dye denim, but since denim is a very widely used fabric, a lot of indigo is still used. Indigo is why blue jeans fade - the indigo particle adhering to the surface are gradually removed, especially on surfaces subject to wear.
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My Name is Indigo Montoya.
You killed my father.
Prepare to DYE!
These global shortages are nuts (Score:2)
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Re: These global shortages are nuts (Score:2)
US society, and much of the world is in a decline, so much that it does feel like the end of the world.
Who thought 40 years ago, as bad as it was back then, that we would be seeing huge shanty towns with a Mad Max type culture take over the richest cities in America in 2021?
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Mad max type culture? You didn't actually see that movie, did you?
Re: These global shortages are nuts (Score:2)
I saw Mad Max and I see the shit that goes on on the streets of my city.
The only thing missing are the dunebuggies.
learned our lesson? (Score:1)
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I'm sure as soon as the current crisis is over they'll flashy-thing themselves and go back to shaving coins.
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Either that or pass along the inventory taxes [taxfoundation.org] along to us. I'm sure we will not mind as long as we never run out again.
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Or keep their inventory in one of the many states that don't tax inventory.
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Or they'll keep their inventory in one of the many states that don't tax inventory.
Side note, it's funny how many Red states tax inventory.
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Inventory taxes really do seem like a really bad idea if you want to promote local business rather than importing from overseas and if you want stable supply chains. What I find really interesting there is that the states with inventory taxes are Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. 8, 7,14, -7, 20, 3, 9, -3, 4. So, from the list I can find, 5 of those are in the top 10 most Republican states, 2 more are in the top 20 most Republican states. The
Meh, it's paint (Score:2)
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I presume this is some sort of attempt at a joke, since anyone who's ever painted anything knows that's not realistic.
Orange is the new Blue (Score:2)
Paint your stuff Orange to get into a Dutch mood.
Blue is not a color (Score:2)
The ancients Greeks didn't know it, it wasn't mentioned neither in the Iliad nor the Odyssey. :-)