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[fak-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˈfæk tə ri, -tri /


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From wafting tar pits and smells of the beach to native plants and a chocolate factory, our readers smelled Los Angeles and told us about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“We put a lot of bets on building EVs, which has shown to be giving the factory too little volume. We need to build other cars in the factory,” said Samuelsson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Tesla’s sales have likely been impacted by its decision to stop selling a pair of luxury cars earlier this year in order to make room in its Fremont, Calif., factory to produce humanoids robots.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Vietnam factory was intended to make the company "less dependent on one single point of manufacturing", chief executive Berta de Pablos-Barbier told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Look at this mess! The maid took work at the munitions factory in High Wycombe—the thanks I get for hiring her!”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

It marks a win for the U.S. plane maker after years of crises, including two fatal crashes and concerns over the quality of the work performed at its factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Huang from Nvidia, which produces computer chips essential for running AI, said after the meeting that data centres should be called "super intelligence factories".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sophisticated munitions like the Tomahawk hold thousands of parts, and move through factories that look more like small workshops than automated production lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Elsewhere in his speech, Healey repeated his promises to re-industrialise the country and said Rolls Royce would invest £300m more into its British factories in Derby, Bristol, Glasgow and Rotherham.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Then he ordered factories to produce warplanes, tanks, cruisers, and other weapons and ammunition necessary for a strong military.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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