However, a wealth of academic research has shown that when a company opens a plant abroad, demand in its home country gets a boost too: sales by the parent company grow and jobs and exports at home tend to rise.
Honda is planning to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant, blaming weak demand across Europe.
"You don't have to build a 1, 000- or 1, 500-megawatt power plant and hope that demand catches up, " said Genoa, the NEI's senior director of policy development.
Enernoc builds a virtual peaking plant, able to strip demand away at a moment's notice in times of crisis.
When demand for the plant's batteries didn't meet expectations, the company filled orders with cells made at a factory in South Korea, leaving the Michigan plant largely idle, according to the report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.
Gregory Graziano, who makes a meunier under the Saint Gregory label, notes that the 2004 film Sideways left growers scrambling to plant pinot noir to meet surging demand.
While Mitsubishi Heavy is hoping to set up a nuclear-plant businesses in India based on demand, the fact that India isn't a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons could be an issue, a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Honda revealed plans to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant which it also blamed on weak demand in European markets.
And on Friday, Japanese carmaker Honda announced 800 job cuts at its UK plant near Swindon, due to falling demand across mainland Europe.
The company will continue trying to match production to underlying demand by eliminating shifts on a plant-by-plant basis where necessary.
Today, Chrysler is responding to more demand than anticipated by keeping this plant and others running through the usual summer shutdown.
Car giant Toyota says it is creating 70 jobs at its engine plant in Flintshire to meet an increase in demand.
The plant is predicted to produce one third of global demand for REEs in two years, hence breaking the Chinese monopoly.
It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
The Santa Fe is being shooed off to a Kia plant in Georgia so that Hyundai can keep up with demand for its sleekly designed, fuel-efficient mid-sized sedan.
Every change on the factory floor that allows workers to adapt to sudden shifts in demand reduces the excess capacity of people and plant space Dell must maintain to get products out on time.
And firms are loth to lay out for plant and machinery a German niche when demand is so uncertain.
The company noted that European coal generation increased 13% in June over the last 12 months as a result of nuclear cutbacks, a knee-jerk reaction to nuclear power given the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, and higher gas prices, further feeding demand for coal.
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"We have the possibility that if demand increases and sales conditions improve, we can make another plant of 400, 000 units, " he said.
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Strong demand for the product convinced the company to build a new plant with ten times the production capacity, which opened in January.
Instead of a planned shutdown, the plant that I was at is staying open this summer just to meet increased demand.
Since the days of Thomas Edison and his New York City Pearl Street Station, the first central plant to produce commercial electricity, economists and policymakers have considered growth in electricity demand a core economic bellwether.
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The maker of the Alto, A-Star and WagonR gasoline cars will open a 150, 000-unit-a-year diesel-engine plant and also expand its capacity to manufacture diesel cars by September to meet the expanding demand for diesel vehicles, he added.
About 70 staff were kept on over Christmas to cope with extra demand and some are expected to remain on-site until March working in the plant's cold store and transport department.
The plant's output by itself would satisfy nearly one-half of current U.S. demand.
From the Northrop Grumman plant in Baltimore to the Lockheed Martin complex in New Jersey to the General Dynamics shipyard in Connecticut, Pentagon demand is an engine of prosperity.
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Demand for the U.S. crop from Spain, Turkey and Pakistan also has led farmers to plant more.
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