"If the sales exceed 480, 000 units or another car project comes up, then we will have to consider building the second plant as this is the maximum capacity for the current plant, " he said.
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The Shanghai plant's annual capacity is 2.6 million batteries, less than a Jiangsu Province plant that can produce 8 million units and a plant being built in Chongqing with a capacity for 6 million batteries annually.
Does Raj need more plant capacity while Amy yearns for a bigger advertising budget?
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Theres excess plant capacity everywhere, leveraged balance sheets and inflated real estate.
But look out: Demand for SUVs, while still very strong, is flattening (see chart, below), while overall light-truck plant capacity is still growing fast.
Johnson Controls is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its plant at Guangzhou, China, by 30% in an attempt to target the growing building market in China.
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Although part of China's growth has been fueled by foreign direct investment, it is internal capital that has driven a surge in property, infrastructure and plant capacity.
Even as energy prices rose and nuclear power plant capacity was boosted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, excess inventory and uranium from decommissioned Russian warheads kept prices low.
According to the filing, actual sales were just 20% of the forecasts, and DNA had to revert back to previous plant capacity and fire the additional employees it had hired.
For both foreign and domestic carmakers, the U.S. has become a more attractive place to assemble vehicles for sale in other countries for multiple reasons: currency exchange rates that effectively lowered U.S. labor costs, new free-trade pacts, high quality and available plant capacity.
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That volume could have readily been produced by using the then built-out capacity of the Michigan plant.
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It gave the Port Talbot plant the capacity for making more than 4m tonnes of steel a year.
Cat is adding capacity to its tractor plant and building a combine factory.
Of course, new gas fired power plants will initially be built in regions with less excess capacity (post coal plant retirement).
The problems are so far "beyond the design capacity" of the plant that the Japanese are working in uncharted territory, said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S. nuclear power plants.
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.
The plant has the capacity to make 300, 000 diesel engines a year.
The Hobson plant has the capacity for one million pounds of ore a year, five times as much as it does now.
States with the strongest projection for advanced coal plant installations and capacity are Montana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.
Instead, GM is paying back its debts, turned a profit for the first time in three years, and a third shift is about to come back to work in Lordstown, putting that plant at maximum capacity. (Applause.) Right next door. (Applause.) And by the way, it was in part because of the decisions that these three guys made in Congress.
We envisage a typical large-scale plant having an average capacity of 10, 000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.
The plant will have a capacity of 250, 000 units, and will be primarily used to manufacture compact cars like the Fit.
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The plant remained stable at 100% of capacity, said Mark Sullivan, a spokesman with Constellation Energy Nuclear Group LLC, which owns the plant.
In a joint venture with Fu Hua Group, which has a 15% share and operates production, the plant will have a capacity of 900, 000 tons per year.
The plant, with a capacity of 470, 000 gallons a year, is under construction now and is expected to begin producing biobutanol in April 2012.
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It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.
In the 1980s, for example, he built a polyester plant with an annual capacity of 40, 000 tons at a time when that was equivalent to India's entire annual consumption.
Fittingly, there's still room to grow: The plant was built with the capacity for future expansion.
The Michigan plant was to have the capacity to produce enough battery cells to equip 60, 000 vehicles a year.
With the shift in bottling capacity from Kilmarnock to a new bottling plant in the Fife town, that is on the way up, to more than 35 million cases.
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