Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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Two people were killed in Kabul on Sunday when a marble factory close to a military compound was hit by a US bomb, the official Bakhtar news agency reported.
The company will continue to use the factory to run a recycling scheme for printer cartridges as well as to make other office technology.
Jobs shared with Obama as to how easy it was to build a factory in China and how difficult it was to build a similar factory in America.
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The majority of the world's robots are bolted to a spot on a factory floor, sentenced to a repetitive choreography of welding, stamping and cutting.
It used to be if you were willing to work hard, you could go to a factory and you might be able to get a job that lasts 20 years, provide good benefits, provide decent salary.
First Solar began to idle half of its 500-megawatt factory in Germany last year and suspended a plan to build a factory in Vietnam.
Boeing cut the cost of making fuselages by selling a factory in Wichita to a private-equity consortium, which drastically cut costs.
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The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Mango contradicted the Phantom executives, saying it was in talks with the factory to place a test order but that it hadn't yet authorized it to do the work and hadn't yet begun an audit.
It plans to accomplish that this year while raising money to work with an equipment manufacturer to create the necessary factory equipment to build a pilot production center by 2015.
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Ask a factory today to make you a single hammer to your own design and you will be presented with a bill for thousands of dollars.
"Let us not wait for 'them' to bring a factory to Wales and hope that jobs will be created - let us do it for ourselves, " she said.
Union workers complained that Boeing decided to change plans to use a factory in Washington State, opting rather to build a new plant in South Carolina, in response to three month strike in 2008.
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And the chances of losing a key person to disability may be higher than losing a factory to fire.
In other words, they should have done something- work in a factory to learn productivity, work at a gas station to understand customer service, etc.
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Instead, on his return to Pakistan on the eve of World War II he borrowed money from his father to set up a factory to dehydrate and can vegetables and fruits, which he then sold to the British troops.
Toyota's decision in December to postpone indefinitely production of its Prius hybrid at a new factory in Mississippi ought to be a reality check for politicians who want to tell carmakers what they should build, but will probably not be.
Even if you're not going to a four-year college, needing to get some advanced training at a community college -- even if you want to work in a factory today you now have to know computers, you have to have math skills, you have to be able to communicate effectively.
Mr Sarkozy's visits to the factory floors are a bid to ensure this does not happen.
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When a cell translates a gene into a protein, it uses a messenger molecule that carries the genetic information to a protein factory called a ribosome.
To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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So firms are reluctant to be the first to close a factory lest it should lead to lower market share, or to forgo investment in a growing market.
General Motors has suspended production at a factory in Louisiana due to a shortage of Japanese parts.
After graduating in 1920 Mumeo Oku worked in a clothing factory and helped to run a home for poor women.
While cleaning up Rocky Flats, it is thinking of building a new factory somewhere else to produce a new generation of plutonium bombs.
Nevertheless, Nissan is vulnerable in another way if demand for electric vehicles softens, because Nissan is building a dedicated factory in Tennessee to produce a much higher volume of the Nissan Leaf, starting in 2012.
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Mr Turner said he thought the decision to close the factory could be subject to a legal challenge by unions.
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Still, an investigation found that the factory violated Nike's code of conduct, prompting the company to work with factory management on a "remediation plan to help avoid these issues from occurring again in the future, " she says.
Wal-Mart's decision to ban the factory came as a surprise to Hop Lun this week.
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