How a Small Distillery is Rethinking Manufacturing
Industry City Distillery's small-scale vodka starts with a well-designed manufacturing process.
With the growing consumer focus on localism, craftsmanship and sustainability, small-scale manufacturing is having a renaissance. Increasingly, small companies that create goods in limited runs are weaving their design philosophies throughout the entire production process--even inventing their own manufacturing equipment.
Such is the case at (ICD), started in 2011 by five twentysomethings who operate out of a 12,000-square-foot Brooklyn warehouse. Not content with
