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BOSTON (Reuters) – On a quiet stretch of the waterfront here, about a mile from Boston’s main tourist sites, a Gillette factory hums along 24 hours a day making an unlikely commodity: top-of-the-line razors.
The factory, which employs about 700 people in manufacturing as well as another 800 in design, engineering and management, is an anomaly in modern America – a manufacturing site in one of most expensive cities in the country.
But to Gillette’s parent company, Procter Gamble, Boston is an ideal base not only for making Fusion and Mach 3 razors, but to produce machines that assemble Gillette products around the world: After a century of making razors at the site, the company has a critical mass of experienced workers.
“The guys in my world see the new products three to five years before anyone else,” said Ronald Calder, who runs the machine shop at the South Boston facility, which develops the equipment that produces many thousands of razors per
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