Richard Kenworthy, director of the Deeside engine manufacturing factory, said the new jobs were great news for the plant and for Wales.

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For now the 31-year-old plant manager is content to lord over a factory floor of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in Pella, Iowa, pointing to a directional drill assembly line that used to be cluttered with 20 days' worth of parts inventory.

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The Deeside factory produces fully-assembled petrol engines for Toyota's vehicle manufacturing plant at Burnaston, Derbyshire where the Auris and Avensis models are produced.

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Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.

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In December, Opel said it would end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016, with the loss of up to 3, 300 jobs at the factory, plus many more with suppliers, while Fiat has said it will cut 1, 500 jobs at its plant in Tychy in Poland.

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When it was opened by Henry Ford's son in 1931, the plant was the country's largest single factory and heralded the arrival in Britain of mass-manufacturing.

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