Much of Delphi's U.S. business is unprofitable, since its factories here are old, their labor costs high and their operations labor intensive.
The collapse happened about 8:30 a.m. and since garment factories in the area routinely work 24 hours a day, it appeared likely that the four housed in the building were staffed at the time.
Since then, the factories have mushroomed and diversified, producing among other things, clothing, iron and steel products.
To make matters worse, Malaysia has since built scores of thirsty factories and high-rises without sufficient aqua-infrastructure.
Many of the students there used to work in the surrounding factories that have since left town.
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This seems to be working: JAC Motors, BMW, and Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of India's Tata Motors, have all announced plans to build factories in Brazil since the import tax was unveiled.
On February 9th he visited Elkhart, a town racked by job losses since the local recreational-vehicle factories started cutting back.
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The project, which would create land for new factories, has long since stopped making sense, says Miss Domoto: thanks to the weak economy, Chiba has plenty of empty factory space already.
The first trading day of the trading week opens with news that manufacturing in the Euro zone was the lowest in the three months ending on September 30 since the Great Recession, as factories were hit by falling demand despite lower prices, suggesting another recession may be on the way.
One estimation is that wages have been rising in the factories by 14% per year since 2000.
Since transgenic goats, for example, are living factories whose worth depends on their producing as much milk as possible, every measure is taken to keep them happy, healthy, well fed and sequestered from non-transgenic animals.
The old policy was tolerable since local governments could also usually dissuade power companies from disconnecting factories that could not pay their bills.
Since the collapse, he has ordered checks on the structure of factories they use.
Since the late 19th and early 20th century western investors have been building factories overseas.
Since the war ended in 1999, it has sold only some cement factories.
Japanese stocks rose to their highest level since March 11, as a weakening yen and news of manufacturers bringing factories back online made owning Japanese stocks more attractive to investors.
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The incentives worked: The number of garment factories rose to 5, 400 in 2012, up 30% since 2005, according to the Bangladesh manufacturers' association.
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San Diego businessman John Riley, whose firm handles legal and administrative issues for companies with export factories in Mexico, figures the administrative burden that's grown since NAFTA was implemented in 1993 has increased his cost of doing business as much as 20%.
The local harbour, where barges bring the scrap-iron the factories will consume, has expanded from seven employees to more than 200 since 1987.
In Zhejiang province, a center of small industry, factories are getting power only three days a week, and limits have been imposed since the end of February.
But the majority of the sector's factories are in the northern city of Aleppo, which has been engulfed in fierce fighting since the summer of 2012.
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