However, workers were later allowed back in or told to return by the factory owners.
The factory's latticed windows and ornate working liquor distillery make it worth the trip.
They live in the factory's dormitory, and survive on food deliveries brought in by boat.
Away from the factory floor, worries about unsafe poultry are already high in China.
It is really fulfilling to have the system accepted so rapidly by the factory floor operators.
Allowed to wander freely through the factory, Weir found that building electronics is hard work.
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Mr German admitted there was only "a slim chance" of the factory remaining open.
If the factory is in a special economic zone, no external office bearer is allowed.
This means that around 9, 000 jobs at the factory are safe for the next few years.
The demonstrators say they will stay there until the factory is shut or moved.
On its website, the factory said it could produce 6, 000 items of clothing a day.
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Wal-Mart's decision to ban the factory came as a surprise to Hop Lun this week.
He said the factory hadn't produced for Wal-Mart since he joined the factory in 2006.
However, the dealer often doesn't pay the factory until long after he has sold the vehicle.
We started outside, where the trucks with containers full of potatoes back up to the factory.
Mr. Im Thou said the factory is operated by a company called Wing Star Shoes.
The company is also to shut the factory for four days between 26 and 29 May.
Reports suggest that a police officer and the owner of the factory were amongst the victims.
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More than 1, 000 backhoe loaders are being manufactured at the factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The factory will be able to produce 3 million units a month at capacity.
The factory worker was treated at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery.
So far it is not clear which Western retailers the factory in question supplies.
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They both had their own offices in a penthouse on top of the factory.
The factory was still at less than capacity, with ample room for a new product line.
It is uncertain how many of the 67 workers at the factory will be offered jobs.
The factory lists as clients the Spanish fashion label Mango and other international retailers.
Wal-Mart said contacts between its suppliers and Ether Tex predated the factory's presence in the building.
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Last month, more than 100 workers from the factory protested outside the label's top London stores.
Rahim said his mother and father, who worked with him in the factory, were trapped inside.
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