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Apple secretive about polluting and poisoning supply chain in China – Tech-Web

www.guardian.co.uk — Despite its claim to be a leading promoter of corporate ethics worldwide, the maker of iPads and iPhones came joint bottom among 29 major IT firms in a transparency study drawn up by a coalition of China's leading environmental groups.

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Investment Casting: China Factory Casting in Brutal Detail – General

www.alexhofford.com — 'Investment casting' means making a mold in wax, That mold is coated in a ceramic mixture and left to dry, dipped and thickened again. Molds are then roasted in ovens (because electricity is cheaper at night, this industrial scale roasting is done at night, and because workers don't like to be fined for safety violations they leave factories that enforce safety standards: eye, skin, touch). Scrap steel is melted, no one seems to care about safety.

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iPhone prototype goes missing; Chinese worker investigated, commits suicide – China News

digital.venturebeat.com — Last Thursday, 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. It’s a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me, of how Apple’s secretive ways send extreme pressure all the way down the company’s international supply chain.