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How the honeycomb is made

The honeycomb is made by printing a pattern of parallel, thin stripes of adhesive onto thin sheets of aluminium. These sheets are then stacked in a heated press to cure the adhesive and slices cut through the thickness of the sheet. The slices, or block form, are then gently stretched and expanded to form a sheet of continuous hexagonal cell shapes.