Sentence examples for idle plants from inspiring English sources

One risk is of idle plants should sales not match expectations.

The Detroit automakers are temporarily laying off thousands of hourly workers as they idle plants making pickups and S.U.V.'s.

Production of Nummi's popular Corolla sedans and some pickup trucks could easily be shifted to idle plants elsewhere.

That forced manufacturers to idle plants after showing signs that their slump was close to an end.

Hyundai's factories are now operating at half their capacity: adding Kia's equally idle plants will not help.

But some analysts question whether such a stimulus will have the desired effect given that inventories of equipment remain high and manufacturers still have excess capacity -- idle plants.

When growth resumed, idle plant and workers could easily be brought back into action.

The shortfall in demand is reflected in unutilized resources, notably unemployed and underemployed workers and idle plant and machinery.

But by 2005 most of the country's idle plant was back in action, and new investment was insufficient to sustain rapid growth.

In 1925 the machine-tool maker Pratt and Whitney provided Rentschler with start-up funds, idle plant space, and a company name to create an aircraft engine manufacturer.

CASCADES INC., Kingsey Falls, Quebec, a maker of paper towels, napkins and tissue paper, said that it had bid about $14.3 million for an idle plant in Memphis owned by the bankrupt American Tissue Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., whose assets are being auctioned off.