The phrase "a multinational factory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a factory that operates in multiple countries or has a global presence.
Example: "The company has invested heavily in a multinational factory to streamline production and reduce costs."
Alternatives: "an international manufacturing facility" or "a global production plant".
Since the 1980s, Juarez has mushroomed into an industrial center whose economy is fueled by multinational factories, or maquiladoras, that draw workers from across the country.
Head of EMS-Chémie Holding, Switzerland's fourth-largest specialty chemical company, Mr. Blocher built a modest stake in a chemical factory into a multinational business with a healthy balance sheet and subsidiaries in six countries.
Poh Eng Seow was a floor manager at the time for a factory run by a multinational firm in the country.
If a multinational company commits to building new factories, real estate developers will follow and build apartments, which then provide the capital for electricity, sewers, telecom and a police force.
The clever bits of GE's new Spanish plastics factory were designed by a multinational team of mainly Japanese and Dutch scientists.Mr Welch points out that his "boundaryless" company has long since outgrown the idea that "American" is best.
Besnier SA, a multinational dairy company, has bought and renovated factories on Corsica.
Many of the millions of migrant workers who used to fill multinationals' factories near the coast are now finding jobs closer to home in China's interior, and the resulting labor shortage has given workers new leverage to demand higher wages and better conditions.
"I think it is telling that the government responded to a concern from a multinational company asking them about forced labor at a clothing factory," Fischer-Daly said.
On October 3rd Brightstar, a multinational manufacturer, will begin importing kits of the phones' parts to its factory in Tierra del Fuego, the normal base for cruise ships going to Antarctica.
An outbreak of SARS in a crowded Chinese plant or factory dormitory, for instance, could lead to the interruption of deliveries or worse for a multinational brand-name customer, industry analysts say.
