And if they don't meet orders, they lose the contract".
Over in Jersey city, the Joseph Dixon Crucible people are working at white heat to meet orders for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" pencil sets.
Our economics reporter, Katie Allen, wrote last month that British brickmakers are working flat-out to meet orders as the construction recovery picks up.
"If anything," he said, the manufacturers "have problems gearing up to the scale needed to meet orders from major retailers selling across the continent".
As the brothers tried to meet orders before the holidays, they lost workdays as government curfews kept their employees holed up in their homes.
Turning even good news into a mishap, it underestimated demand for its innovative microchips so badly that it ended up well short of capacity to meet orders.
Because of the uncertainty about whether the credit will be extended, he said, his customers, the turbine builders, have stopped stockpiling inventory and are ordering only what is needed to meet orders they have already taken.
FTR Systems does not disclose the proprietary technology it uses to power the CaddyTrek, which sells for $1,595, but Mr. Nagle said sales of the robot carriers had been strong, and the company had been rushing to meet orders in the United States and Europe.
In the longer term, economists say they believe the economy will see a pronounced rebound during the second half of the year, as reconstruction activity kicks in and manufacturers race to meet orders that were delayed.
"They will have just-in-time inventory to meet orders".
