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Kabul Kangana Grape Storage - Afghanistan

A villager uses finished Kangana jars as molds to shape bowls for new ones in the northern outskirts of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2025. The Kangana, an ancient clay jar to preserve grapes, has been widely used in the rural outskirts north of Kabul. This century-old Afghan container enables grapes harvested in the heat of summer to stay fresh until the following spring. A Kangana is an ellipsoid formed by placing two bowl-shaped compoents face to face, with no apparent front or back side. Once sealed with mud around its brim, the jar becomes nearly airtight, functioning as a natural "vacuum storage container." In some Afghan villages, the Kangana was once used to store peppers and apples as well. Today, with these vegetables and fruits available year-round, grapes remain as the main object in its starage. Photo by Li Ang/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Annie Genevard Visits Panzani Plant - France

Details of pasta molds in he Panzani pasta production site in Marseille, France on July 18, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Annie Genevard Visits Panzani Plant - France

Details of pasta molds in he Panzani pasta production site in Marseille, France on July 18, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Annie Genevard Visits Panzani Plant - France

Some pasta molds seen stored in the maintenance service of the Panzani pasta production site in Marseille, France on July 18, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Water-saving Pipeline Production in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - APRIL 2, 2025 - Workers lift PCP pipe molds on the PCP pipe production line of Xinqinglong Pipe Industry in Shandan County, Zhangye city, Gansu province, China on April 2, 2025.

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Water-saving Pipeline Production in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - APRIL 2, 2025 - Workers lift PCP pipe molds on the PCP pipe production line of Xinqinglong Pipe Industry in Shandan County, Zhangye city, Gansu province, China on April 2, 2025.

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Bakery in Zaporizhzhia

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 4, 2024 - An employee empties freshly-baked bread loaves from the baking molds at the Urozhai bakery which joined the National Cashback program, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

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Bakery in Zaporizhzhia

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 4, 2024 - An employee empties freshly-baked bread loaves from the baking molds at the Urozhai bakery which joined the National Cashback program, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

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Day Of The Dead Sugar Skulls Production - Mexico

Clay molds for sugar skulls are seen during the production of sugar skulls as part of Dia de Muertos traditions. The Flores family has been dedicated to this craft for more than 100 years, and every year prior to the Day of the Dead festivities they dedicate for sugar skulls production in their workshop located in the Venustiano Carranza district. Mexico City, Mexico, October 22, 2024. Photo by Carlos Santiago/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM.

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French chocolatiers pin hopes on sales during Easter amid soaring prices

STORY: French chocolatiers pin hopes on sales during Easter amid soaring prices SHOOTING TIME: March 30, 2024 DATELINE: March 31, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: SAINT-ETIENNE, France CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the making of chocolate eggs 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): JULIEN, Chocolatier 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): JULIEN, Chocolatier STORYLINE: French chocolatiers have pinned hopes on sales during Easter holiday amid soaring prices. In a chocolate factory near Saint-Etienne, Julien had been at work for several days for one of the most important selling seasons of the year. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): JULIEN, Chocolatier "The molds are not dirty but they are already covered with a good layer of chocolate because we have been making molds non-stop for several days." SOUNDBITE 2 (French): JULIEN, Chocolatier "We use nearly five tonnes of chocolate mainly for Easter and Christmas in a year. Those are the two big moments for us." The price of chocolate is soaring due to the decrease of cocoa output glob

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman shows a ceramic product at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman carves on a pottery vase at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman crafts a vase out of clay at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 18, 2024 shows a ceramic product at Rama Saman's workshop in Damascus, Syria. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman crafts a vase out of clay at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman shows ceramic products at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-CERAMICS-ARTIST

(240308) -- DAMASCUS, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rama Saman shows ceramic products at her workshop in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Syrian artist molds hope in ceramics amid conflict" (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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Syrian artist molds hope in clay amid conflict

STORY: Syrian artist molds hope in clay amid conflict SHOOTING TIME: March 1, 2024 DATELINE: March 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Rama Saman working 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RAMA SAMAN, Syrian ceramicist 3. various of Rama Saman working 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): RAMA SAMAN, Syrian ceramicist 5. various of Rama Saman working 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): RAMA SAMAN, Syrian ceramicist STORYLINE: In the face of conflict and turmoil in Syria, Rama Saman, a talented ceramicist with a background in fine arts and media design, is molding hope in clay. Despite the challenges she faces, such as electricity shortages and the uncertainty of the future, Saman remains optimistic and passionate about her craft. For Saman, working with clay is not just a creative outlet, but a form of meditation and escape from the stresses of everyday life. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RAMA SAMAN, Syrian ceramicist "Working with your hands actually takes out every stress you have and espe

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Bakery in Kalush

IVANO-FRANKIVSK REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 27, 2024 - Dough is placed in the baking molds, Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine.

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RWANDA-MINING SECTOR-TRANSFORMATION

(231212) -- KIGALI, Dec. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Workers inject molten tin into molds for casting at a smelter's facility in Kigali, Rwanda, Nov. 30, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Rwanda dedicated to transforming mining sector for economic growth, community prosperity" (Photo by Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua)

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A Drone Manufacturing Enterprise in Qingzhou

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 9, 2023 - Workers use molds to produce drone parts at a drone manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China's Shandong province, Nov 9, 2023. On the same day, the National Bureau of Statistics released data, in October 2023, the national industrial producer prices fell 2.6% year-on-year, the month on month flat.

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A Drone Manufacturing Enterprise in Qingzhou

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 9, 2023 - Workers use molds to produce drone parts at a drone manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China's Shandong province, Nov 9, 2023. On the same day, the National Bureau of Statistics released data, in October 2023, the national industrial producer prices fell 2.6% year-on-year, the month on month flat.

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-ANHUI-SHEXIAN COUNTY-HUIZHOU INK-INHERITOR (CN)

(231031) -- SHEXIAN COUNTY, Oct. 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Students experience rubbing of ink molds during an educational tourism project at the Ancient Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory in Shexian County, Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 24, 2023. Shexian County, located in Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, is known as the "Capital of Ink" dating back to the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-975). After it was renamed Huizhou in 1121, the term "Huizhou Ink", or "Hui Mo" in Chinese, stands for high-quality ink product in China. Huizhou Ink, a type of paint usually applied in traditional Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, is mainly made of pine soot, tung oil soot or lacquer soot, and colloid, and mixed with more than a dozen precious ingredients such as musk, gold foil and pearl powder. Due to its high-standard making procedures, Huizhou Ink is lustrous black in colour, solid in quality, anti-tinting on paper, unsticky with brush, long-lasting with time, fragrant in smell and mothproof in storage

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China unveils archaeological achievements related to Shang Dynasty

STORY: China unveils archaeological achievements related to Shang Dynasty DATELINE: June 2, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:22 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the ruins site and archaeological discoveries related to Shang Dynasty STORYLINE: China has disclosed multiple important archaeological achievements, painting a historical picture of various social aspects of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.). Nine high-ranking tombs for nobility in the late Shang Dynasty were discovered at the Zhaigou ruins site in Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration. The noble burial site is the largest of its kind found in the northern part of Shaanxi. Large-scale rammed-earth buildings, tombs, ash pits and pottery molds have been found at the Zhaigou site, which spans some 3 million square meters on the Loess Plateau. The ruins are of great significance to the study of the political geography of the late Shang Dynasty and the exchanges between dif

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Traditional Food of Spring Festival: Haitang Cake

STORY: Traditional Food of Spring Festival: Haitang Cake DATELINE: Jan. 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE/ENTERTAINMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of processes of making Haitang Cake (courtesy of Songjiang Convergence Media Center) STORYLINE: Many Shanghai Songjiang natives have the same unforgettable childhood memories: holding their mother's hand to buy Haitang cakes. Biting into the sweet and glutinous Haitang cake could always make one feel happy. Haitang cake, a baked pastry made of flour, filled with red bean paste and sugar, is a traditional Shanghai snack. Shen Songtang is a pastry master at Songjiang Vocational School. He uses stamping molds to make lovely rabbit patterns on Haitang cakes so that the traditional food not only tastes delicious but also looks cute. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China. (XHTV)

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (C), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki, professor at Future University Hakodate, waves from the podium after jointly receiving the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds for determining optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (L), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Concern over disappearance of craftmanship spreading

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Itakura (R), a 63-year-old metal mold worker at Aisin Seiki Co.'s Shintoyo plant in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, teaches trainees from India and Thailand how to repair metals molds used for making auto parts on March 10.

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-POTTERY

(220929) -- DAMASCUS, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A potter molds a pot at a workshop in Damascus, Syria, on Sept. 29, 2022. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

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The second factory of Okada Shell Manufacturing introducing IT production control system.

Okada Shell Manufacturing (Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture) will introducean IT production management system to its No. 2 plant by December 2020. The investment will amount to about 20 million yen. The plant is the main production base near the main plant. The production plan will be reflected directly from the office to the production facilities in the plant, and the progress will be monitored in real time. Okada Shell Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is engaged in the production of cores, which are sand molds used to create cavities inside castings. Conventional paper-based production records have been prone to errors, but the company will automatically accumulate production data from its facilities and use the data to extract production conditions that realize high quality and to train young workers. In addition to the use of simulation equipment to analyze the core manufacturing method, the defect rate will be reduced from 5% to 2%. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Nippon Shimpo's drill used in the previous deep drilling of the Antarctic ice sheet

Nippon Shinkan (Niiza City, Saitama Prefecture) has delivered high-precision aluminum tubes to the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) for their deep drilling of the Antarctic ice sheet. This is the first time in 17 years that Nippon Shintube has supplied aluminum tubes to the National Institute of Polar Research since 2002, when the company supplied them to the institute's 2003-2007 drilling project. According to the Polar Research Institute, the first drill is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. In order not to collide with the rotary drill stored inside, a high degree of precision was achieved with a length of 5 meters and a bending accuracy of 0.3 mm or less. "There are no molds left. We had to redo everything, including the materials," said Takeo Kitazawa, general manager of the Technology Development Department, Safety & Environment Department, and Management Department. Photo taken on June 21, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (C), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks. (Kyodo)

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki, professor at Future University Hakodate, waves from the podium after jointly receiving the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds for determining optimal routes for railroad tracks. (Kyodo)

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (L), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks. (Kyodo)