The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month inspected a company manufacturing plant in Minnesota and found no problems that could have caused the defect.
The company has one turbine manufacturing plant in Colorado and plans to build three more, plus a service and maintenance center.
The company has also opened a manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China and research facilities in Singapore and India for new nutritional products.
The company plans to announce another manufacturing plant in the U.S. "We are just at the very beginning of what we can do, " he beams.
Last March, the GE's chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt, wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review where he announced that GE planned to add more than 1, 000 manufacturing jobs at its Louisville, Kentucky, facility - a manufacturing plant the company tried to sell only a few years ago during the depths of the recession.
In the second experiment, subjects were assigned to act in a scenario where a chief financial officer of a pharmaceutical company was negotiating to sell a manufacturing plant.
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The company, which built in 2009 a manufacturing plant for Pampers nappies in Johannesburg, has been in the country since the mid-1990s and says that its brands serve more than half of South African households.
"I suppose the good news is that there is a phoenix-like company willing to buy it, so it looks as if the manufacturing plant can be saved, " he said.
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He said they had enlisted the help of a local manufacturing company to rewind the 18Kw electric motor, which failed on the main plant.
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In Wisconsin, a company called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energy-efficient lights in a once-shuttered plant.
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