But in the past few years the trucks have begun transporting more machinery for factories and electronic products such as television sets for a small but affluent elite.
Top Glove makes its own equipment and stacks the machinery high in its factories to maximize square footage.
People drive cars, operate heavy machinery or work in factories with inadequate ability to see, causing loss of life and lost educational opportunities.
Meanwhile, German firms happen to produce exactly the things that a booming China wants, from luxury cars to the machinery that enables Chinese factories to be the workshops of the world.
This includes machinery and equipment to build factories and steel mills, but also a transportation infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, airports and rail systems.
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Just as important, GM is overhauling its factories around the world to equip them with flexible machinery that can be programmed to build several different models.
"If we have factories of our own, I will need to attend to production and machinery operations, " says Tsuji.
Capital is what builds the factories and the mines that people can get jobs in, purchases the machinery that makes their labour more productive and more productive labour gets paid more.
Nearly all of its factories, including the three being converted to carmaking, will be equipped with machinery that will allow Ford to switch among multiple models and thus respond more quickly to changing consumer demands.
There is clearly a demonstrated global market for Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar construction and agricultural machinery, as well as a host of high-tech and fashion-related products now being churned out in factories scattered across the country.
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