Then Peugeot bailed out of its money-losing factory in Guangzhou, freeing that licence.
More thorough testing was carried out - including the DNA testing of raw material at Comigel's factory - and the results were confirmed on Wednesday.
The BBC's Norman Smith said the event was a show of unity and its setting - in a tractor factory in Essex - was designed to counter suggestions the government was out of touch and to provide a contrast with their 2010 "Rose Garden" press conference.
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Meanwhile, he grabbed an old thread-rolling machine out of a nearby factory and wired it to operate very slowly to let him observe exactly what was happening.
Congratulations to energy entrepreneur and PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong for closing the Series D round of venture financing for her Berkeley-based startup (working out of the former Scharffen Berger chocolate factory) to pursue a solution to the energy storage problem with compressed air.
Much of the work is expected to be carried out at night, with a so-called factory train laying a mile of new track and cables every night once construction is underway.
With few exceptions, most cars and trucks coming out of the factory these days are well-built and thoughtfully designed, earning high marks from consumers for their initial quality.
The factory-owned dealership brought out chairman of the Daimler AG board of Dieter Zetsche, who spoke to journalists earlier in the day and Mercedes-Benz USA president Ernst Lieb who also made remarks.
And we found a family - the father who was out of work, working at a cigarette factory.
When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.
Zeiss is running out of space for its chip-technology business, and is building a new DM200m factory at Oberkochen.
He points out that one of the last big industrial employers in the constituency - the Ford Transit van factory - has taken EU grants and moved production to Turkey.
He announces the shipment of a 65-inch LC-TV model, alongside plans to open a second Kameyama factory capable of producing 8 45-inch screens out of a single piece of glass.
Journe works out of a converted gas lamp factory on the rue de l'Arquebuse in Geneva--he's the only watchmaker in the city center.
Ajjor owns a furniture factory within eyeshot of the Gaza-Israel border and can point out the gate through which not too long ago his products were shipped to Israel.
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.
Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school at age 15, after his father died, to work in a factory.
Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
The city is still sprinkled with musicians who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, when New Orleans was a hit factory cranking out million-selling records by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Huey (Piano) Smith ("Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu").
General Motors and Ford sponsored some of our events, but my tour of the Ford Rouge factory, where workers assembled the Ford F-150 pickup, was paid for out of my own pocket and it was well worth it for a car design lover and transportation geek like myself.
But after burning through hundreds of millions of dollars in capital--costs include more than 600 employees and a California factory to crank out its specialized chips--Infinera is finally seeing rapid sales gains, even as it continues to record losses.
Li Ning last week said it wants to move to a more consumer-oriented model, opening more of its own shops and factory outlets rather than franchising them out to third parties or relying on wholesalers to distribute their products.
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