In Kazakhstan's old capital of Almaty, a modern factory produces Kourt, a hard cheese, and a range of camel milk sweets.
Vita was offered a cheaper, more modern factory 20 miles away.
If the mega-sized farms of the current modern factory farm system were suddenly beset by a shortage of modern petro-based pesticides and herbicides, those farms would all suffer massive crop failures, and food would become scarce all around the world in less than two years.
There are even a few craftsmen who can still fashion a pair of scissors the old way, bashing the molten steel and iron together entirely by hand, and a few of those techniques have been retained in some of the modern-day factory-made products.
Visitors are more likely to think it is an art gallery or modern office block than a car factory.
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VIST's success has been the availability of a modern, automated assembly line at a factory in Zelenograd, a town about an hour from Moscow.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
While modern prefab succeeded architecturally, it mostly failed in the factory.
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Indonesian papermaker Sinar Mas had entered India and was building a modern 100, 000-metric-ton-a-year factory for high-end coated paper.
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But that still leaves the problem of smoothing production at the factory to preserve the economies of scale, which even in modern scaled-down plants require a throughput of about 250, 000 cars a year.
It recently gave the workforce at Land Rover's Solihull plant an ultimatum: adopt modern, flexible working practices and give up old habits such as eating and smoking on the job, or the factory closes.
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