Today, closely held Murdock Madaus Schwabe crushes and packages herbs in a factory the size of several football fields.

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In October it doubled the size of its Dongguan factory.

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One fuel-cell factory, however, could make propulsion systems for every size and shape of vehicle.

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Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.

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By 1999 the two parties formed Haier America Trading Co. to broaden the line, and nine months later they opened a factory in Camden, S.C. to make full-size refrigerators for the U.S. market.

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