The factory buildings felt almost deserted, but Chris Berman still hopes to fill them with workers.
"Many families have to move into smaller or older flats, or even factory buildings, " he said.
The Civic Society said it was one of Leicester's landmark factory buildings and losing it would be "totally unacceptable".
The money should be recovered, Mr Wu believes, from insurance payments tied to the flooding, and the sale of the factory buildings.
According to workers, multiple iPhone 5 production lines from various factory buildings were in a state of paralysis for the entire day.
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Official figures show investment by the private sector in fixed assets such as factory buildings and machinery grew nearly threefold between 2000 and 2005 (see chart).
In the factory, where the buildings are still being assembled around the clock by DeLuxe Building Systems Inc.
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They said the mezzanine floors were added to the site in the past two months to connect buildings at the factory, which employs more than 6, 000 people.
Stroll through here to the artsy precinct of Hunter Street, home to the Henry Jones Art Hotel, set in historic industrial buildings that were once a jam factory.
Developer Grantside said staff were clearing asbestos from the site before securing the listed buildings and demolishing the other parts of the factory.
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Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say.
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He said the collapse involved a mezzanine area that had been added between two buildings above a loading bay, to create more factory floor space.
Buildings and homes have been hit, including a factory yesterday.
Drive to the south and you see apartment buildings reaching skyward, surrounded by stores, small manufacturing operations and the occasional factory.
Around 3, 000 buildings were damaged by the blast, which blew a hole in the walls of a metals factory in Chelyabinsk, approximately 900 miles east of Moscow.
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