They prefer to build factories in Central Europe, which is closer and where labour costs less.
Big profits, even with lots of capital spending to build factories, have built a strong balance sheet.
This triggered a scramble by ten of the world's biggest car firms to build factories in Russia.
Mr Sinn recognises that companies must build factories where they are most efficient in Slovakia, say, rather than Germany.
These companies often need to build factories and buy expensive industrial equipment to produce environment-friendly electricity, gasoline and other types of power.
Anyone who wants a piece of the action will have to build factories there in order to take full advantage of that growth.
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This includes machinery and equipment to build factories and steel mills, but also a transportation infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, airports and rail systems.
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In recent years, Lehman had become a principal underwriter for solar energy companies raising money or financing debt to build factories and solar farms.
First Solar scrapped plans to build factories in Mesa, Ariz.
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This seems to be working: JAC Motors, BMW, and Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India's Tata Motors, have all announced plans to build factories in Brazil since the import tax was unveiled.
Firms will build factories in difficult places if they have to, but they much prefer places where contracts can be enforced, property rights are secure, taxes are predictable, executives feel safe, and workers get basic social services from the state.
Mr. Gettelfinger is right that the union has made major concessions to the car companies in recent years, and that states did spend tax dollars -- though probably not as much as the union contends -- to attract Japanese, German and Korean auto makers to build factories.
First Solar has suspended plans to build more factories and closed production lines.
First Solar and SunPower both have cut production or suspended plans to build more factories.
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Where important decisions to build new factories, buy new equipment or hire new workers can be postponed, they are.
Foreign companies might be reluctant to take over any GM plants or build new factories in places like Michigan.
These big oil producers want to build petrochemical factories to diversify their economies.
Still, some solar manufacturers have proceeded with their plans to build new factories for a variety of reasons.
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Those who are surviving so far have cut back production, laid off employees or suspended plans to build more factories.
You, on the other hand, must give money to build battery factories without knowing how many electric cars will be built to use the batteries.
The Muslim nations should join together to build up factories for ammunition and other weapons, and a continued process of research and inventions must be carried out.
By contrast, in Brazil the main aim of public policy has been to push carmakers to build local factories from which to supply the country's huge domestic market.
My plan restores American competitiveness in the global marketplace and provides strong incentives for U.S.-based employers to build new factories and create thousands of jobs here at home.
It would be a bit like instructing all FTSE 100 companies to build new factories in Britain - not an instruction that would carry much force with private companies.
All the pain led many insiders to the conclusion that funding startups that plan to build pricey factories might not be the right role for venture capital.
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As India chases a target of 9% economic growth this year, there is pressure to build more factories, mines, irrigation projects and railway lines, which often means cutting down the country's forests.
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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Few firms want to build new factories there.
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Oftentimes, the upfront capital expenditure can be so huge and the margins are small enough (and shrink over time as the component is rapidly commoditized) that the companies who would build these factories cannot raise sufficient investment capital to cover the costs.
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