Sentences with phrase «on plant closings»

Economist Barry Bluestone of Boston College has done extensive research on plant closings.

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MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

On December 3, the workers received three days» notice that the 40 - plus - year - old plant would close.

But in 2006, the company decided to close its two - million - square - foot stamping plant on Detroit's East Side, among the oldest active auto plants in the fading Motor City.

Green Built's research uncovered that not only was all of Haiti's cement imported after the multinationals closed cement plants on Hispaniola (a limestone island), but Haitians paid more for cement than some regions of the U.S. did.

The closing of the factory will leave 635 hourly workers and 72 salaried people without jobs in Madison, but that's just one of seven plants that Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter on Nov. 4 in a plan to cut 14 % of Kraft Heinz's North American factory workforce.

On the afternoon marking 100,000 hours without a recordable accident, the plant closed down for a beer bust.

JERUSALEM, April 9 - Debt - laden Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said on Monday it would close an unprofitable plant in the Israeli port city of Ashdod in March 2019 after failing to find a buyer for the facility.

On February 20th, Gillman announced that the Iowa plant would close immediately.

«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost jobs from sizable layoffs (such as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.

However, there are challenges, like low aluminum prices, which have weighed on business and caused plant closings.

Automotive seating giant Lear Corp. has notified Unifor that it plans to close a plant where workers who have been on strike since the weekend rejected a tentative agreement to settle the labour dispute.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

When the meat processing plant traditionally closed for a holiday break at noon on Christmas Eve day, workers would stop in and hold an impromptu cocktail party at the Esquire Club, he said.

In response to my question about what, if anything, the city or state could have done to keep Madison's Oscar Mayer plant open, Kraft Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen said «the closing of the Madison factory was based entirely on the need to reduce operational redundancies and eliminate excess capacity within our North American network.»

Workers leave the Kraft Foods - Oscar Mayer headquarters and plant in Madison on Nov. 4, 2015, the day parent company Kraft Heinz Food Co. announced it would close the facility.

Madison's Oscar Mayer plant — a fixture on the East Side for nearly 100 years — will close and its headquarters will move to Chicago, putting...

What local and state officials did or didn't do in recent months had little impact on Kraft Heinz's decision to close its Madison Oscar Mayer plant.

Heinz announced the closing of those three North American plants on the same day in November 2013, saying production would end six to eight months later.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

Young was at the Alcoa plant in January 2016 on the day it announced that it was closing its doors, laying him off and hundreds of others.

Madison's Oscar Mayer plant will close by the end of March 2017, parent company Kraft Heinz told state officials in a letter dated last Thursday and released on Tuesday.

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In the closing sentence, the news report places its editorial weight with the company officials as it is assumed that the plant will be «on line next year» and that it will be «producing cheap power.»

In late June, Martinelli's closed escrow on a Birdseye frozen food plant next door that's been vacant for the past five years.

For example, the majority of the company's apple trees are grown on a trellis system, which makes it possible to plant more trees closer together to maximize space while also giving each tree a greater level of exposure to sunlight.

Serving diners a 100 percent plant - based and vegan culinary experience for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and lunch on the go, The Ravens» co-creative kitchen is led by Sid Garza - Hillman, author, certified nutritionist, and long - time vegan, who works in close contact with chef team Sadhana Berkow, Ubaldo Salazar, and Big River Nurseries gardener Clayton Houghland.

«We're trying to get plants in larger areas closer to the customers we serve,» Stacks says, adding the new plant helps the company save money on shipping and logistics costs because of its proximity to two large cities.

In addition to convenient supply options, our location in close proximity to some of the manufacturer plants allows us to pass big savings on to our customers.

Right now we are no closer to tomato season here than one golf ball sized green thing on one plant.

Murray Goulburn made only a $ 39.8 million profit last financial year, on $ 2.8 billion revenue, has cut its farm gate milk price, is closing plants and last month announced a wide - ranging strategic review.

Being situated on the production plant grounds in Mierlo, they will bring research and development activities closer to manufacturing.

Yet Teys recently considered closing our Beenleigh plant, following a nine - year average return on our asset base of 2.8 per cent, shrinking to only 1 per cent over the past four years.

With our significantly improved balance sheet, we anticipate expediting our on - going cost reduction efforts, including the closing of 10 - 15 % of our plants to remove fixed costs...,» said the company in the financial report.

The new organic milk spray drying plant will be built at North Geelong in Victoria on land adjacent to an existing processing operation built in 2016 by the Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia, which operates at a site close to the former Ford engine plant.

Close plant spacing like on this commercial habanero field in Plant City, Florida also helps to keep moisture under the canopy of leplant spacing like on this commercial habanero field in Plant City, Florida also helps to keep moisture under the canopy of lePlant City, Florida also helps to keep moisture under the canopy of leaves.

They are on a section of the Mississippi which alternates between refineries, chemical plants, and plantation museums — and they are close to two of the finest examples of the latter: Laura (a unique Creole plantation) and Oak Alley (a real «Gone With The Wind» experience that even offers freshly - made Mint Juleps).

Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

On closer inspection the defender clearly gets the ball, cleanly long before clattering into Ozil who has planted his foot into the ground, and you have to think that VAR would ruled that one out...

this being said, what happens to ARSENAL next will be decided a close doors between WENGER and the Board, we will have no influence on the outcome whatsoever, WENGER»S and the board biggest fear is to proof the Fans right, by bringing another Manager that can take arsenal to the next level, now the damage by leaving WENGER stay is done, aging players, WC players wanting to leave, and the seed of discord among the players has been planted, so if WENGER decides to leave it will be a gigantic task for the next manager to meet the expectations.....

Unfortunately for the multitudes of fans stacked up at Innisbrook and those planted firmly on their couches in record numbers, when his birdie putt on the 72nd hole came up just short of forcing a playoff, that's as close as Woods would get to hoisting his first PGA Tour trophy since 2013.

Beef Products Inc, maker of the beef product that critics called pink slime, will permanently close three of its four plants on May 25 due to plummeting sales amid concerns about the ammonia - treated product, the Iowa governor's office said on Monday.

School programs both on - and off - site for over 7,500 students, providing unique opportunities to observe and enjoy plants and animals up close.

Also, a potty chair is closer to the ground and the sphincter muscle has to be relaxed to enable elimination and sitting with your feet planted on the ground enables the muscles to relax a lot easier than when the legs are dangling.

But after the «pink slime» reports on ABC News, major grocery stores and fast food outlets ceased purchasing the product and by May 25, 2012, BPI had to close three of its four plants, and lay off at least 650 workers.

Britain invented TV, but the world will not watch the events of the Diamond Jubilee this summer on British - made sets, as the last plant making them in this country closed in 2009.

Cuomo is also working on a deal that would close the controversial Indian Point power plant in Westchester by 2021, but he hasn't officially announced the agreement.

In a statement today about the announced closing of the FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Scriba, NY, Governor Cuomo spoke out on «Good corporate citizenship.»

His administration is on a fast track to close that plant by 2021, and his top energy officials testified at a hearing on the proposed Indian Point closure earlier in the month.