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| ====== Nonprofit Rubber Production Factory ====== | ====== Nonprofit Rubber Production Factory ====== | ||
| - | [{{ :wiki:nrpf.png?nolink&200|A generic graphic of a factory}}] | + | [{{ :wiki:nrpf_abandoned.png?nolink&300|An abandoned NRPF in Wuhai}}] |
| A **nonprofit rubber production factory** (often abbreviated as NRPF) is a type of venture devised by [[Bart Hufnagel]]. | A **nonprofit rubber production factory** (often abbreviated as NRPF) is a type of venture devised by [[Bart Hufnagel]]. | ||
| - | NRPFs produce high quality or low quality rubber, depending on the circumstances. Since NRPFs are structured as a business, but are nonprofit, they are an inherently contradictory enterprise with an inbuilt genetic error that invariably leads to the factory going out of business very soon. | + | NRPFs produce high quality or low quality rubber, depending on the circumstances. Since NRPFs are structured as a business, but are nonprofit, they thus come with an inbuilt genetic error that invariably leads to the whole enterprise failing very quickly. |
| - | Hufnagel has opened around 13 factories in different countries in the mid 2000s, after which they all failed within a year. | + | Hufnagel has opened around 13 factories in different countries in the mid 2000s, after which they went bankrupt within a year or two, and were subsequently closed. Several tourist companies offer guided tours to the abandoned factory in Wuhai. |
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| - | [{{ :wiki:nrpf_abandoned.png?nolink&200 |An abandoned NRPF}}] | + | |