factories

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Factories in sectors including stainless steel and plastic have cut back on production as a result.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Factories have closed, and the timber industry has struggled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

The main hitch is an obvious one: Factories are hugely expensive to set up and run.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Factories on the moon, he added, could make satellites and deploy them further into space.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

Factories making cameras, computers, watches, umbrellas, and T-shirts stand cheek by jowl with densely packed blocks of apartment buildings and fields of banana and mango trees, sugarcane, papaya, and pineapple destined for the export market.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell