On the struggling car side, the most obvious asset is Mitsubishi's 18-year-old factory in Normal, Ill.
The old factory floor has broken through its walls and now spans oceans and borders.
Beryl Betts's brother Billy Jones was a 26-year-old factory hand on board the Gaul when it went down.
Sixteen year old factory worker VERONICA MARTINEZ went missing seven days ago.
Researchers are looking at an old factory in Trenton that has high levels of lead and is smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Sainsbury's wants to build what would be one of the region's largest stores on an old factory site in Westfield, between Midsomer Norton and Radstock.
GM, which has missed its profit targets in Europe, has been quietly refurbishing its old factory at Russelsheim in Germany, shedding surplus labour and capacity along the way.
Cargill's NatureWorks has a four-year-old factory in Blair, Neb. that can turn out 300 million pounds of PLA plastic each year, but it is said to run at only half that capacity.
The independently owned hotel with 197 rooms describes its style as "industrial chic" with furnishings related to its history, such as desks inspired by vintage sewing machines and coffee tables that resemble old factory carts.
Bronee showed us an old milk factory where some of the new arrivals had been housed.
This 28-year-old glass factory worker wanted to find a job overseas that would better support his homeless family.
"I want the death penalty for the owner of the building, " said one marcher, 18-year-old garment factory worker Mongidul Islam Rana.
Founded by Daniel Prieto Preston in an old parachute factory, the beans-to-bar chocolate manufacturer offers free tours and tastes of freshly cooled chocolate squares.
This summer a 100-year-old box factory will reopen as the new International Water Technology Center, a seven-story research hub and business accelerator for water-related companies and promising startups.
In 1993 he opened a 7, 000-square-foot wood shop in an old match factory, seeding it with money from the sale of a clothing business that had been in the family since 1907.
Taking place every Monday at Ciudad Cultural Konex, an old oil factory, the show starts at 7 pm and costs 40 Argentinean pesos if you book in advance and 50 Argentinean pesos on the door.
When Wessely started the business with one stitch-bonding machine in the shell of an old toweling factory in 1999, he found pretty good demand for "multiaxial reinforcements"--they're strong, stiff lightweight cloths used in boat hulls and construction materials.
This is partly because new organizational structures are much more fragmented and spontaneous than the old-timey factory business model.
An old Bulova watch factory is being transformed into multimillion-dollar condos and billionaires' mega-yachts can be seen docked on the wharf.
It's a mix of prosperous green suburbs, wooded rural areas, and old-line factory towns trying to adapt to the service economy.
The old offices of Factory Records (the label behind Joy Division and the Happy Mondays) are now music venue Factory 251, part-owned by ex-Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook.
The company has taken a long-term lease on a 70, 000 sq ft (6, 500 sq m) factory in Old Run Road in Hunslet.
Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks.
When Timothy Roberson, a 48-year-old former tire-factory worker, had his spine fused by surgeon Kevin Foley at Memphis's Methodist University Hospital in August 2000, he says Dr. Foley didn't tell him of his relationship with Medtronic.
One night he goes undercover at the chemical factory of his old enemy, who now goes by the name of Black Friday.
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He found a new job in a specialty food store, but it paid much less than his old one in a plastics factory.
In Kazakhstan's old capital of Almaty, a modern factory produces Kourt, a hard cheese, and a range of camel milk sweets.
They are packing up more than 19, 000 historic pottery moulds and cases to be moved from the factory to part of the old Spode pottery site in Stoke town centre.
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By diverting old products from the landfill to the factory floor, we take meaningful steps toward a greener economy and help power an entire industry centered on recycling, reuse, and refurbishing.
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