Likewise, Ford has closed five American factories in the past three years, cut production for the past 11 quarters and will go further still to lower stocks of unsold cars.

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In three short years, Intel has pushed its factories to produce ever-smaller features on SoCs, jumping from 32nm to 22nm to 14nm at a cadence of one node per year, twice the usual pace.

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Toyota also has a wholly owned subsidiary, Bodine Aluminum, an aluminum casting company, which operates three factories in Tennessee and Missouri.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).

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