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The Largest Manufacturing Process

● Is the largest manufacturing process the making of automobiles or some other such process? The New York Times said: “The largest single manufacturing process in the world takes place in one of the smallest units of life cells of green plants. The manufacturing process is . . . photosynthesis. Each year this process accounts for the transformation of 100 billion tons of the inorganic element carbon into organic forms that support life. By contrast, all the big blast furnaces of the world would make only a half-billion tons of steel in the same time.”