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Why sustainable manufacturing makes economic as well as ethical sense

Employees wearing protective face masks and face guards work on the automobile assembly line as the maker ramps up car production with new security and health measures as a step to resume full operations, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Kawasaki factory of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., owned by Germany-based Daimler AG, in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan May 18, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, how can we make things better? Image: REUTERS/Issei Kato

Blake Moret
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell Automation
Allie Schwertner
Initiative Account Manager, Rockwell Automation
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