Even as the Shanghai factory runs on three shifts, its first joint venture in the rust belt city of Shenyang remains a morass.

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The factory runs on diesel generators and currently makes oral and injectable hormonal contraceptives, which the Muktadirs plan to export to emerging markets.

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The helmet factory now runs in three shifts, producing 500 handmade helmets a day.

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In Oregon Intel will convert a development factory (with test runs) into a high-volume production factory.

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Now he employs 28 people and runs a factory that ships, each week, lighting systems as well as two tractor-trailers full of air filters.

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Brett Willberg, who runs an ice factory, says he has never bothered to fix the electric gate in front of his operation, which does not close.

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"It's been a great car, " remarked Keith Slep who runs an auto repair shop a few miles from the factory.

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It is the same story in manufacturing, For time-insensitive goods and long production runs, China is still the clear winner for global factory relocation.

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The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.

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