LEGO It's one of the most popular construction toy in the world. In the age of unprecedented competition for their attention children still spend over 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
In Puerto Rico, family tradition and technology meet to create one of the world's most popular premium rums: Bacardi. See how the rum is produced using the same formula and techniques that were used 150 years ago.
Europe's largest brewery, the one million square meter home of Heineken, in the Netherlands. There, the world's most international beer company, produces over half of its annual output, which came to 11 million hectoliters in 2009.
The Australian rum, which bears the name of its hometown, was created in 1888 and is more than a mega factory, it's an Aussie icon. We look into the culture, the processes, the innovation and the community that make Bundaberg Rum unique.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is built to kill. It's the world's best multi-role fighter jet. But constructing it piece by piece in 3 different factories in 3 different countries is a major challenge.
Get exclusive access to Hero MotoCorp in India, the world's largest motorcycle manufacturing company with more than 18,000 workers and 200 robots that assembles more than 13 billion parts every day.
Campari is an Italian company active since 1860 in the branded beverage industry. Headquartered in Sesto San Giovanni, production is concentrated in fourteen manufacturing plants around the world - take a look inside.
MV Agusta is a legendary Italian motorcycle manufacturer. Purchased by a father and son team, the company is now betting its future on a brand new motorcycle design. Our story is about the MV Factory in Varese, Italy.
It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Corrandino D'Ascanio's easy-to-ride, easy-to-maintain scooter design put post-war Italy on two wheels. Look at the factory where the same basic design cranks off the assembly line.
A step-by-step look at the making of Alstom's revolutionary high-speed train, the AGV, which could be the fourth record-breaking creation from the company.
Unprecedented access to this elite Formula One team. Back from their latest race in Europe, the team have a week to get the car in shape at their English HQ before they leave for months away on the other side of the globe.
The 48-acre St. James Gate Brewery is situated smack bang in the middle of Ireland's capital city, Dublin. Guinness is the most popular dark beer on the planet. Globally, the megabrewer sells over a billion pints a year in 150 countries.
The Swiss Army Knife may be the most ingenious multipurpose tool ever invented - and the most recognized. How it's made is as ingenious as the tool itself. Visit the Victorinox factory in Switzerland
In 2007 the mammoth Airbus A380 took the Boeing 747's crown for size and capacity - a record Boeing held for decades. Boeing wants its crown back, but it needs to get a new plane in the air, and fast.
Building on the success of the F1 team, McLaren formed a high-performance road car business, McLaren Automotive, which continues to set new benchmarks in performance and efficiency. See the factory that builds the MP4-12C
For 50 years, Learjet has been synonymous with high-flying luxury and the celebrity jet-set. This is the construction story behind Learjet's top of the range 60XR - one of the world's most iconic private aircraft.
This 60 metres high thrill ride is only the 5th ever to be constructed. Its adrenaline fuelled tracks speed riders to 100 kph over loops, drops and banks, pushing them to g force limits usually reserved for fighter pilots.
This is the story behind the world's first fully electric premium sedan - the Tesla Model S. Tesla's electrical experts in Fremont, CA are gearing up for mass production in a groundbreaking new Mega Factory
Sir Ratan Tata is a man on a mission: to make India's roads safer by getting people off motorbikes and into the world's cheapest car - the Tata Nano. Tata envisages the Nano as a 'people's car' - India's answer to the Model T.
The latest 'super choppers' are built to fly to places helicopters could never go before, even to the reaches of inner space. Using live action, archival footage and CGI, we marvel at the creation of today's 'super choppers'.
Let's go to Bolzano and find out how Iveco vehicles are made, used for military and civil protection purposes. The latest product is the Multi-role Light Tactical Vehicle.
Since it launched in 1977, Almarai has grown into the largest dairy producer in the Middle East. Using new technology, a secret recipe for cow feed, and a stringent testing process, follow milk from cow to bottle to store shelf.
The biggest factory complex in Europe Vestel City is located in Manisa, Turkey, and has an army of 14,000 employees producing 45,000 TV sets, 9,500 refrigerators, 8,000 washing machines and 1,700 dishwashers each day.
A rare look inside the Ferrari factory where they are building the new FF the first four-wheel drive Ferrari with four full-sized seats. The FF's 12-cylinder engine is one of the most powerful engines ever built at the factory in Maranello
In 2011 Lamborghini launched its latest creation - the Aventador. Megafactories visits its factory in northern Italy, to follow the story of its creation from conception to launch and to witness an incredible production process.
Hand built at the LFA Works in Toyota City, Japan, this car's body is 65% carbon fibre and powered by one of the highest revving production engine on the road. At $375,000 it's one of the most luxuriously priced Japanese road cars ever.
The Gumpert Apollo Enraged - a $1 million street-legal racing car for the road. It's one of the fastest cars on Earth and one of the most exclusive. It's hand built in Germany, using some of the finest racing components Europe has to offer.
Australia's Howard and Sons have been making fireworks for almost 100 years, now the reigns have been handed down to a new generation and they are breaking with tradition.
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