First Solar, long the king of low-cost manufacturing, decided to gradually shut down its big factory in Germany and put on hold its plans to build new factories in Vietnam and Arizona.
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The company is about to close a big pager factory in Puerto Rico.
"Because all the food in our supermarket will be grown on site we won't need a big processing factory to make packaging and we won't have to burn lots of fossil fuel to transport it across the globe, " he said.
Those benefits are not just the direct impact of jobs at the companies doing the spending, but, for instance, jobs in construction to build a new factory, or in the retail and restaurant businesses that can flourish when a big company opens a new office or factory.
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The product launch and new factory represent a big move for SoloPower to commercialize its technology.
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The edible oil factory, a big flour mill, the hospital and customs office have totally collapsed - apparently blown up.
Hundreds of thousands of poorly paid Chinese factory workers have gotten big raises lately.
Imagine you were a big wheel down at the cracker factory before the recession hit.
Building and running a 1-gigawatt factory will be a big undertaking, and the company is at the early stage of tackling it.
"They're not big ax-wielding, restructuring, factory-closing types, " says Kurt Sanger, a Tokyo-based analyst at ING.
'Cause I can just say from experience, you know, walking into Ethiopian restaurants the past few days that I meet a lot of foreign investors who have all kinds of big plans, you know, for solar panel factory or a mobile phone business.
The factory that will process the carp, Big River Fisheries, is undergoing a USD 2 million upgrade for this project, and if all goes well, the plant (with 180 additional jobs) could ship from 30 to 50 million pounds of carp to Asia within a couple years.
In Japan, such contextual use of Big Data enabled officials to stop every bullet train and factory only seconds before the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011.
Ultimately this bill still aligns to the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning outlined in Digital Learning Now, and as such, represents a bold move away from the monolithic, factory model schools of our past and a big step forward toward a more student-centric future that allows students to have personalized options for their learning based in their distinct needs.
There are some big power lines, but otherwise it looks just like any factory by a lake.
He points out that one of the last big industrial employers in the constituency - the Ford Transit van factory - has taken EU grants and moved production to Turkey.
He scored a big advance from Pantheon, using that money to fund a classics factory, of which he is chief executive officer.
Suntech Power, the largest solar panel maker in the world, is making big production and labor cuts at its only U.S. factory, which it opened only in 2010 to much fanfare.
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Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks.
"Twitter has built an audience, but in order to achieve the scale and revenue that Google and Facebook are seeing it needs to show that marketing dollars spent on the site can perform well for mom and pops, not just big companies, " said Jonathan Strauss, chief executive of Snowball Factory Inc.
She is betting big on the U.S. Areva is building a nuclear power plant component factory with Northrup Grumman in Virginia.
Plus, the big imbalance of supply and demand for solar panels over the past two years prompted factory closures and bankruptcies, and many more manufacturers are sure to disappear over the next three years.
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The big question is: Will the political parties respond to public outrage and finally bring negligent factory and building owners to book?
But residents said the advent of big-box stores and malls crippled local businesses in the hamlet, and the loss of factory jobs on Long Island contributed to its decline since then.
First it selected Texas--the Big Three's biggest pickup-truck market--as the site for a new truck factory.
The agreement, drafted by the U.S.-based International Labor Rights Forum and labor groups in Bangladesh in the aftermath of a deadly fire in a garment factory in Dhaka in December 2010, has so far failed to get the support of most big-brand foreign clothing companies.
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And today, in China, because China has become bigger and bigger, it's really a big country, plays very important role in the world, so we've been called like an international factory.
Factory orders rose only 0.1% in July, worse than forecasts, held down by big declines in orders for machinery and computers, areas that it was hoped would take over leadership of the economic recovery after the housing industry collapsed again.
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Bangladesh has gotten off the economic mat in recent years with a big push into cheap apparel, a mixed blessing whose downside was horribly brought home in November when a Dhaka garment factory caught fire with 112 workers trapped to die inside.
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