Tim Cook’s trick for making iPhones is now at risk from the pandemic

Illustration by Grayson BlackmonIn 2011, it suddenly became much more difficult to buy a Ford in three specific shades of red.Those colors, as well as one called “tuxedo black,” relied on a gleaming pigment called Xirallic, which was made by a German company, Merck KGaA, in Onahama, Japan. Onahama was hard-hit by the tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster — and the Merck factory there was the only place that made the pigment.
It wasn’t just Ford that was left