In December 1898, the company opened the world's first wireless factory at Chelmsford in Essex.
In May, Matsushita, the Japanese firm behind the Panasonic brand, announced that it would build the world's biggest plasma-display factory.
The figures will be good news for them, but also for the world economy, as China's factory output is indicative of global demand for the country's consumer products.
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It's a world that looks more like a Taylorist factory than a place for culinary innovation.
The majority of the world's robots are bolted to a spot on a factory floor, sentenced to a repetitive choreography of welding, stamping and cutting.
The moves come as the world's largest retailers face pressure to increase their oversight of factory conditions in Bangladesh following a building collapse on April 24 that killed more than 1, 110 workers there.
Vestas, which supplies 40% of the world's offshore turbines, has applied for planning permission for the factory.
His successor at the helm of the world's first tin canning business, John Gamble, moved the factory to Cork in Ireland in 1830, where there was a larger supply of cattle and the shipping route to the US offered an endless supply of custom.
The Gallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
Suntech Power, the largest solar panel maker in the world, is making big production and labor cuts at its only U.S. factory, which it opened only in 2010 to much fanfare.
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After returning from World War II, the pair set up shop inside the Sapolio soap factory, owned by Morgan's father.
British officials chose photo opportunities for Mr Miliband that would highlight China's importance as a responsible world power, at a training facility near Beijing for UN peacekeepers, and a factory making solar panels.
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