Pundits predict more unrest in towns, of which there are many in Russia, that rely entirely on one ailing factory or industry.
Even the car industry, which pioneered factory robots and which still accounts for some 60% of their use, now makes different models on the same assembly line.
Increased capacity combined with a slowdown in industry demand led to lower factory utilization and declining profit margins.
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The disasters also highlight failings in the retail industry's system of factory audits that are meant to ensure unsafe factories are not used.
They engineer and build plants, and make factory machinery for the automotive industry, in particular paint shops.
Penske was what the auto industry calls an independent distributor, a middleman between the factory and the dealer network.
Applied intends to trim the industry's costs in four ways: boost solar factory throughput, improve the productivity of every tool, cut materials costs by using photovoltaic materials more sparingly and raise solar cell efficiencies.
Now, let there be no doubt, it will take an unprecedented effort on all our parts -- from the halls of Congress to the boardroom, from the union hall to the factory floor -- to see the auto industry through these difficult times.
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In 2010, Peter and Fran Guppy converted their garage into a miniature chocolate factory and quit their jobs in the financial services industry.
South Korean police have broken up a strike at a car parts factory which was threatening the country's car industry.
He said it would make the livestock industry more sustainable and limit wildlife and rainforest destruction caused by factory farmed meat and dairy.
City Hall says it has a firm intention so far to buy a former pharmaceutical factory in Dagenham, help London's film industry and invest in broadband technology.
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The tragedy, the deadliest incident in the history of the garment industry, came just months after a fire in another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers.
Factory production figures out today suggest America's manufacturing industry is recovering, as does some data from the New York Fed.
Buying Take-Two would pair one of the videogaming industry's steadiest performers with an inspired, if turbulent, hit factory.
On Sunday, Bangladesh's textile minister said he will soon start talks with labor groups and factory owners to agree on a new minimum wage for the industry.
And while poor factory safety doesn't necessarily equate to unsafe food, industry officials say workplace problems of any kind around food raise risks it will be contaminated during processing.
The Tung Hai factory fire "is another blow to the image of our industry, " said Siddiqur Rahman, a senior vice president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
However, we expect that as the industry revives and demand picks up, TI could leverage this additional capacity and consequently increase its factory utilization rates which, in turn, will improve the gross margins.
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On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry.
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By diverting old products from the landfill to the factory floor, we take meaningful steps toward a greener economy and help power an entire industry centered on recycling, reuse, and refurbishing.
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The country's powerful garment industry has been plagued by a series of disasters in recent months, including a November fire at the Tazreen factory that killed 112 and the building collapse.
Rozina Akter, a 21-year-old seamstress who was working at Phantom Apparels, a factory on the fourth floor of Rana Plaza, at the time of the disaster, says the industry offered her family a salvation of sorts, as they faced starvation in her old village.
On the greener side of things, Ceradyne opens a factory this month in China to produce gear used in the production of polycrystalline silicon for the solar power industry.
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