One in five people employed in manufacturing in Britain now works for a foreign company.
Lenore Seeley(ph), who heads a federally funded job center called Central New York Works, says manufacturing jobs like that are hard to find in Syracuse these days.
This industry, which includes office, hotel, retail, manufacturing, energy and public works projects, lost another 2, 000 jobs in January, even as the sector as a whole clocked positive gains.
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Both deals have been brokered by the Get It Group which works in helping establish manufacturing campuses in a number of countries.
He showed me around the Tower Works, an historic Victorian manufacturing site in Leeds which had been left as a dilapidated site in the 1990s.
If that works, it would make the manufacturing process much cheaper.
"I assumed a correction was coming, but the movement was extremely violent, " said Ryo Takebe, a 28-year-old retail investor who works at a chip-related manufacturing firm.
He owns a stake in the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (known as APIC), which works to establish businesses in Palestine focused primarily on manufacturing, distribution and services.
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Which might be very nice for both Apple and the Chinese manufacturing workers who still have jobs and really rather bad for those who lose them as Dell and HP presumably sell less or move manufacturing elsewhere and certainly would be bad for everyone else who works in Dell, HP and the rest as the companies faced those higher costs.
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Samsung seems to accept the commodity nature of hardware and works with it rather than electing to move out of manufacturing.
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Today, the President traveled to Bettendorf, Iowa to tour the Alcoa Davenport Works plant and deliver remarks on the critical role the manufacturing sector plays in the American economy.
He just works twelve hour days making kilns and furnaces for customers in the manufacturing and food processing industries.
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Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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Apparently, so the story goes, Foxconn is testing and manufacturing systems anywhere in the 46 to 55 inch range to play around with and see what actually works.
On Tuesday, the President will visit Alcoa Davenport Works Factory in Bettendorf, Iowa, to tour the facility and discuss the critical role that the manufacturing sector plays in the American economy.
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