Already Merloni has closed two plants in Western Europe, one in Italy, the other in Portugal.
Besides the Georgetown Toyota plant, Kentucky has two Ford plants in Louisville and a GM plant in Bowling Green where the Corvette is made.
The social enterprise, which has two more plants in Zambia and Ghana, uses the widespread popularity of football in the continent to help create jobs and offer disadvantaged children access to sport equipment.
Maruti has two car manufacturing plants--Gurgaon and Manesar in the northern state of Haryana.
Currently, Brazil has two nuclear power plants operating in Rio de Janeiro, with a third under construction.
Saudi Arabia claims that it has opened two new production plants, at Abu Safah and Qatif, three months ahead of schedule.
The BBC meanwhile reports that Toshiba has shut down one of its two LCD plants to recalibrate sensitive equipment, while Hitachi has also shut a damaged Tokyo factory.
Nonetheless, Peugeot has cut a shift at the two plants in France that make the 206, eliminating about 1, 500 jobs.
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Instead, she has spent the past two years trudging around toxic waste sites and recycling plants, while the environmental agenda has been set elsewhere.
In Japan the utilization of its plants has gone from 51% two years ago to 75%.
Japan has actually restarted one or two of its nuclear power plants.
Absenteeism is down and productivity is up at the two plants where the new work schedule has gone into effect. (A third plant will be converted early next year.) The economy benefits, too: With its more intensive use of machinery, IEC has added 950 workers, and product is being shipped out the door faster.
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The reduction reflects the suspension of operations at two plants: Shin-Etsu Chemnical has stopped manufacturing operations at its facility in Shirakawa, while MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) has shut its Utsunomiya facility.
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The company has also announced plans to build two "clean coal" power plants last week just as it announced the completion of a wind farm that will provide power to 24, 000 homes.
Despite ditching its nuclear power plants, Germany has quadrupled its energy production in the past two years, largely due to its rapidly growing alternative energy portfolio.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
It houses 5, 000 plants, covers an area the size of 10 tennis courts, and has taken more than two years to build.
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The most enthusiastic response has come from EDF Energy, which runs eight nuclear power plants in the UK and wants to build two new ones in Somerset.
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