The San Jose company announced Tuesday it will suspend production at six of the 12 solar cell production lines and cut solar panel production by 20% in the Philippines.
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First Solar has suspended plans to build more factories and closed production lines.
Carmakers were beginning to worry about interrupted supplies of electrical components from Asia slowing production lines.
That is why the company is moving to automate more of its production lines, he said.
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The only real solution is closing production lines to get capacity in line with demand.
New orders would lead to updated production lines and tools, much of it imported.
Union leaders believe a strike would shut down Boeing production lines in Everett, Wash.
HD-DVD is less expensive to manufacture because firms can simply upgrade existing production lines.
Two new production lines will be built, one in 2013 and one a year later.
It also has launched a new conventional submarine with the possibility of two production lines.
There were concerns that serious disruption to production lines could have affected those forecasts.
One big manufacturer has even issued iPads with the app to staff monitoring its production lines.
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It has seven main production lines turning out foods such as fish fingers, fish cakes and peas.
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When business was booming, it was a way to meet demand, but now production lines were idle.
But now that the production lines are rolling once more, they have warmed to their new owner.
Producers of cooking oil, for example, are shuttering production lines, holding inventory off supermarket shelves, or closing altogether.
Or did more workers than expected return to its production lines after the Lunar New Year break?
We should not expect that the Hummer production lines will remain in the United States very long either.
Today, production lines that can build such trucks are one by one going cold as military spending dries up.
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Most of the jobs these "bankers" do are far from the production lines of the companies that pay them.
The production lines should start running in a limited way by the end of 2009 and full-out in 2010.
The product will undergo trials on production lines at several UK food processing plants over the next 12 months.
Children are not tins of beans and schools are not factory production lines.
Big, sophisticated robot systems used on car-production lines can cost millions of dollars.
For these reasons, all day and night shift inspectors carried out a work stoppage today that paralyzed the production lines.
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One of the newest production lines makes release papers, used to hold sticky labels until they go on retail products.
CIMC, a Chinese firm that makes shipping containers, dismantles entire production lines in expensive countries and rebuilds them back home.
As it will be when fewer of us have to do exhausting, noisy, boring and repetitive work on production lines.
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The expansion incorporates a fully-automated assembly line for air handling units and four production lines for ductless air-conditioning and heating systems.
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The U.S. market certainly has been growing quickly, but so has the number of production lines and factories around the world.
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