The factory s other equipment, including a machine that pastes solder and another that dispenses glue, can make a product within 24 hours of getting the plans.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
He said the closely held firm's executives used to think their oversight of the factory's output was relatively sophisticated, though they were relying on paper-based systems.
The layoffs represent nearly 7% of Ford's UK workforce of 12, 900 - with almost half of the Southampton factory's staff of 1, 100 affected.
Right now, though, there's only one factory that's actually making cellulosic ethanol.
Nor that that city's factory managers and Europe's hauliers are near despair.
The factory's latticed windows and ornate working liquor distillery make it worth the trip.
They live in the factory's dormitory, and survive on food deliveries brought in by boat.
Wal-Mart said contacts between its suppliers and Ether Tex predated the factory's presence in the building.
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The first line of defence against compromised products are the factory's clients, the importers.
But at the Honda plant, employees fume more about the factory's trade union than about Japanese managers.
Post-industrial Britain could withstand the factory's closure better than the country laid waste by the early 1980s recession.
As part of the factory's expansion plans, seven empty terraced homes at the site will also be demolished.
An Irish food factory's production has been suspended after new tests revealed horse DNA in its frozen burgers.
Aside from September's factory orders, the U.S. Treasury Department will announce the details of its quaterly refunding Wednesday morning.
"We're getting three dollars a day while the factory's shut, " one worker says.
In fact the factory's productivity has turned out to be less than half that of comparable American and European plants.
They include items ranging from the factory's intern policy to protection from excessive heat and building more fire escapes and toilets.
Sir Dominic said the fate of the factory's Somerdale plant in Keynsham, near Bristol, would be a test of Kraft's trustworthiness.
Factory workers making the Olympic torches are "disappointed" they will not see them near their homes, the factory's boss has said.
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They include items such as the factory's intern policy, protection from excessive heat and the construction of more fire escapes and toilets.
In 1959 Toyota's Motomachi factory became Japan's first full-scale car assembly plant.
The factory's role was to manage peak demand for the highest-priced products.
Dewhirst executives and Pembrokeshire politicians are meeting with Welsh Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan in Cardiff on Wednesday to discuss the factory's future.
Mahmud speculated it might have originated in the factory's ironing section.
The city council, which has owned the site since July 2010, said the top part of the factory's facade needed temporarily taking down for safety.
Instead of relying on the factory's official union, each department elected two workers' representatives who negotiated on their behalf the wage hike that they wished.
The dead included the factory's managing director, Mahbubur Rahman, who was also on the board of directors of the powerful Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
Seven suppliers helped to erect a Volkswagen truck plant in the town, and employ three-quarters of the factory's 1, 400 workers, even participating in the truck's final assembly.
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