Though we were not pleased with its pace, June Textiles was making progress in addressing issues at the factory.

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And Ford, with losses or tiny profits in recent years in the region, is squaring up for the probable end of car making at its Dagenham factory in England.

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They clocked off at 1130 GMT at the factory, which employed 225 staff making steering parts.

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Muller UK announced a new butter-making factory would open at its Market Drayton base in the autumn.

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But it's also about capturing the characters within the story, not least the factory's employees, some of whom have been making matzo at Streit's for decades like the emigre who boxed for the Soviets in the 1964 Olympics, the Honduran former lawyer, and the Jewish immigrants from Uzbekistan, once forced to make matzo in secret in their native country, now doing so with pride at Streit's.

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Suntech Power, the largest solar panel maker in the world, is making big production and labor cuts at its only U.S. factory, which it opened only in 2010 to much fanfare.

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Honda ( HMC - news - people ) in China, a wave of ten suicides this year (followed by pay raises) at the Silicon Valley-feeding Foxconn factory in Shenzhen and a newly appreciating currency are making factory bosses sweat for their bottom lines.

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