One factory has been overwhelmed by water almost 1.5 metres (4 feet) deep.
At other places these are often sold or shipped from one factory to another for further processing.
At one factory they witnessed a line producing lingerie, another producing jackets and a third making pants.
In February, the regulator halted drug applications from one factory alleging that the company had falsified data and test results.
By contrast, Apple owns just one factory, in Cork, Ireland, relying on contract manufacturers to do the rest of its work.
Right now, though, there's only one factory that's actually making cellulosic ethanol.
At that speed one factory could produce a gigawatt of solar modules per year, ten times as much as the U.S. is now installing.
Last year, Peugeot announced a programme to cut its costs by 1bn euros in response to falling sales, including the closure of one factory.
When one factory lagged unloading a 130-car coal train, he pushed its managers to work Saturdays so that his trains wouldn't sit unused all weekend.
The savings are arrestingly simple: Redesigning a standard pumping loop in one factory saved 92% of the pumping power--with lower construction cost and better performance.
That one factory that was now a pile of smouldering rubble.
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Where rather than workers at one factory fighting with capital to gain a larger share of the surplus, an entire profession restricts access to that profession.
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It already has one factory each located in Manesar and Gurgaon in the north Indian state of Haryana, which can together produce 1.4 million vehicles a year.
As China production slows for Uniqlo and other clients, Lever Style plans to return one factory here to the landlord and consolidate its shrinking workforce at the other two.
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The factories, which also supplied clothes to other European retailers, had been audited by Mango executives in October to determine safety standards and work conditions, one factory executive said.
As one factory boss said to me last month, wages for factory workers in China are now five times higher than in Vietnam, so he's moved all his labour-intensive work out of China.
One such factory is Hop Lun, the Bangladesh outpost of Hong Kong-based Hop Lun Ltd.
One profitable factory after another has been shut down and moved to low-wage countries.
The site of one Daewoo factory near Seoul sits on a piece of land that could be valuable if sold and redeveloped.
Pundits predict more unrest in towns, of which there are many in Russia, that rely entirely on one ailing factory or industry.
Without anyone ever really noting it, the entire world depended on that one Japanese factory for the glue to stick the chips into their casings.
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But it seems an extraordinarily strange way to do it: when one efficient factory and supply chain can do it or the world then why have 192 different ones?
They offered many models and you could not tell the difference between one that came from the factory and one that was produced in a back room somewhere in Turkey, so I asked just how this was possible.
On a recent afternoon at his brother's one-room factory, six boys ages 11 to 16 sewed red frocks.
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The company with the brand name or a clever marketing idea isn't necessarily the one with the factory.
In the entertainment business, which often views writers as interchangeable, Mr. Grahame-Smith has branded himself as a one-man factory for quirky, high-concept, multimedia franchises.
One of the factory supervisors, Paul Williams, who is also a senior steward for the Unite trade union, said he found out his job had gone when he returned from holiday.
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One fuel-cell factory, however, could make propulsion systems for every size and shape of vehicle.
You have to turn your shop into a mini-factory (one that honors people, though, she adds).
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