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Outside of Singapore, regional tech companies are mostly final-assembly contractors and semiconductor packaging companies.
CNN: Money & Investing
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A320s a month on a final-assembly line in the northern port city of Tianjin.
ECONOMIST: Aviation
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The immediate cause of the disaster was a breakdown in the snap-together final assembly process in Toulouse that has served the company well for over 30 years.
ECONOMIST: Airbus and EADS
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The final make-up of the new assembly should be known by Saturday.
BBC: Former Assembly Speaker criticises poll count system
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David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
ECONOMIST: Airbus
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The team also toured the Ford Rouge Factory, to see the final assembly process for the Ford F-150 truck.
WHITEHOUSE: Winning High-School Students Drive Dashboard Design
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The final assembly (which the customer does, Ikea-style, at home) doesn't require even a drop of glue.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Suharto has final say over more than half of the seats in the 1, 000-member assembly that selects the president every five years.
CNN: Suharto
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Today it's not uncommon for suppliers to build large chunks of an automobile--a complete dashboard or a front-end module, say--at their own factories, then ship them to the auto plant for final assembly.
FORBES: Other people's money
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Hitachi CM, with flat-screen TV to make the results developed by Hitachi Consumer Electronics, for final assembly process to ensure that the consignment to the outside, we will build a stable business base for flat-panel TV business.
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It also assembles ERJ-145s in an Embraer joint venture, with the Harbin production lines reportedly switching to final assembly of Embraer Legacy business jets in several months.
FORBES: Name You Need to Know: Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
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Seven suppliers helped to erect a Volkswagen truck plant in the town, and employ three-quarters of the factory's 1, 400 workers, even participating in the truck's final assembly.
ECONOMIST: Car making