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July 27, 2011

Anacortes plant makes world's largest rope

  • Puget Sound Rope doesn't do small stuff. They pull loads behind tugboats, haul pipelines off the ocean floor and hoist big rigs into place.
    • By WHITNEY PIPKIN
    Skagit Valley Herald

    ANACORTES — The machines at Puget Sound Rope take on a whimsical air as the larger-than-life bobbins dance in circles to create a complex braid.

    The biggest machine at the facility measures almost 45 feet tall with red and yellow spools that give it the look of an industrial-sized merry-go-round — without the music.


     
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