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At the front of the room stood the bishop, who blessed the bread and water in Spanish before passing the trays around for the congregation.

Its laser cutters can load their own sheets of metal, like giant printers with automated feeder trays.

Plastic food containers and trays are stacked and wired with lights, feeling at once like retro-futuristic inventions and something cobbled together after the apocalypse.

At holidays or graduations or milestone birthdays, we’d joke about phantom hunger pangs, gesturing to the empty spot where the foil tray should’ve been.

Mark Hargreaves runs a trolley and tray manufacturing and export business in Peckham, south London.