Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) can't afford any mistakes as it challenges a work force that had never seen the inside of an auto factory to launch five models in less than a year at one new plant--an unprecedented schedule for any North American automaker.
However, poor farmers frequently cannot afford to buy new seed each season, so they take their chances and replant the best of their seed from year to year in the belief that a new plant that is not quite as good as its parent is better than no plant at all.
Or consider the case of a manufacturing firm that builds a new plant with an estimated life of 30 years, only to learn a year later that the widgets the plant was built to produce have become obsolete.
There is "no prospect" construction of a planned new nuclear power plant in Somerset will begin this year, union leaders have warned.
Northern Beef Chief Executive David Palmer said cattle producers within 200 miles of the new plant ship one million young cattle a year, or half their new calves, to the south for fattening and processing.
Last year it completed a new 1, 000 mw gas-fired plant in Tennessee to help replace the four coal units retired at the same site.
The Genk plant was expecting to start producing the new Mondeo in October next year.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
By the fourth quarter of last year Intel started shipping the new, smaller generation of chips from its Oregon plant, which helped the company achieve its highest ever gross margin.
The new 122MW plant is scheduled to go into production in the second quarter of this year, and will supply power for a minimum of two years.
Masayasu Kitagawa, the governor of Mie prefecture and a pioneer of the new confrontational style, won celebrity last year by opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant.
It celebrates New Zealand's unique plant and animal life and to mark the 2010 UN International Year of Biodiversity.
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And as the company expands operations in Oregon and builds a new plant in Arizona, it plans to hire another 4, 000 people this year.
The carmaker said construction of the new plant - which will have the capacity to make 150, 000 vehicles a year - would begin in June.
Effective July 1, 2011, any new source of greenhouse gas emissions that exceeds 100, 000 tons of CO2 per year or plant modification adding 75, 000 tons annually, will be subject to permit approval based upon undefined case-by-case "best available control technology" assessments.
The company has been operating a prototype plant in New Zealand capable of generating 16, 000 gallons of carbon monoxide ethanol a year.
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China slowed an ambitious expansion of nuclear power earlier this year, suspending approvals of new nuclear plants after the March disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant.
That facility capitalized on its growth by taking advantage of an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit in the recovery that we passed last year, which allowed it to add equipment, boost output, and hire new workers at that plant.
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Absenteeism is down and productivity is up at the two plants where the new work schedule has gone into effect. (A third plant will be converted early next year.) The economy benefits, too: With its more intensive use of machinery, IEC has added 950 workers, and product is being shipped out the door faster.
The new reactors will use a more modern and safer design, developed after the 40-year-old Fukushima plant was built.
The new plant will account for only 0.1% of the 270 billion pounds of plastics produced every year, but right now the PLA market is all but nonexistent.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
In New Mexico, a processing plant has been fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than a year for approval to convert its former cattle slaughter operation into a horse slaughterhouse.
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