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Stellantis Windsor Plant Shutdown 6,000 Workers Laid Off - Canada

Auto workers at the Stellantis Windsor Assembly Plant leave after the last day shift before a two-week shutdown, in Windsor, Ont., on Friday, April 4, 2025. Stellantis announced a two-week shutdown of the Windsor plant where about 6,000 autoworkers will be laid off. Photo by Dax Melmer/The Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Stellantis Windsor Plant Shutdown 6,000 Workers Laid Off - Canada

Auto workers at the Stellantis Windsor Assembly Plant leave after the last day shift before a two-week shutdown, in Windsor, Ont., on Friday, April 4, 2025. Stellantis announced a two-week shutdown of the Windsor plant where about 6,000 autoworkers will be laid off. Photo by Dax Melmer/The Canadian Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Francois Bayrou Visits Alstom Factory - France

Two Alstom workers are seen talking with French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou during his visit at the plant of French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom in Aytre near La Rochelle, France, on March 14, 2025. Photo by Arnault Serriere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Francois Bayrou Visits Alstom Factory - France

Two Alstom workers are seen talking with French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou during his visit at the plant of French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom in Aytre near La Rochelle, France, on March 14, 2025. Photo by Arnault Serriere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Francois Bayrou Visits Alstom Factory - France

Two alstom workers are seen talking with French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou during his visit at the plant of French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom in Aytre near La Rochelle, France, on March 14, 2025. Photo by Arnault Serriere/ABACAPRESS.COM

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LensToLens | "Two Countries, Twin Parks" yields fruits in China and Malaysia

(240621) -- KUALA LUMPUR, June 21, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers are seen at a factory of the Alliance Steel (M) Sdn. Bhd. plant at the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP) in Pahang state of Malaysia, June 13, 2024. China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park, situated in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP), located in Pahang state of Malaysia, opened respectively in 2012 and 2013. The two parks set a new example of bilateral economic cooperation under the model of "Two Countries, Twin Parks." Over the past ten years, the cooperative mode has yielded fruitful results in various fields such as project construction and innovative cooperation, promoting the industrial cooperation between the two countries. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Cheng Yiheng)

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LensToLens | "Two Countries, Twin Parks" yields fruits in China and Malaysia

(240621) -- KUALA LUMPUR, June 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Workers are seen at a factory of the Alliance Steel (M) Sdn. Bhd. plant at the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP) in Pahang state of Malaysia, June 13, 2024. China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park, situated in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP), located in Pahang state of Malaysia, opened respectively in 2012 and 2013. The two parks set a new example of bilateral economic cooperation under the model of "Two Countries, Twin Parks." Over the past ten years, the cooperative mode has yielded fruitful results in various fields such as project construction and innovative cooperation, promoting the industrial cooperation between the two countries. (Xinhua/Cheng Yiheng)

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(VistaNingxia)CHINA-NINGXIA-ZHONGWEI-ENVIRONMENT-SAND CONTROL (CN)

(240616) -- ZHONGWEI, June 16, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers plant trees in straw checkerboards to protect the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway from sand in Zhongwei, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, April 25, 1979. In the 1950s, to protect China's first railway that runs through a desert, the city of Zhongwei embarked on a journey of desert mitigation. Scientists at the Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, part of the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with local residents, developed straw checkerboards to stabilize the sand and prevent dunes from shifting. Tang Ximing, a senior engineer at a state-owned forestry farm in Zhongwei, crafted a steel tool that differs from regular shovels by featuring two horizontal bars at the front tip. This innovative tool enables the planting of seedling roots 50 centimeters deep into the moist sand layer. This simple tool increases the survival rate of afforestation by 25 percent

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(VistaNingxia)CHINA-NINGXIA-ZHONGWEI-ENVIRONMENT-SAND CONTROL (CN)

(240616) -- ZHONGWEI, June 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Workers plant trees in straw checkerboards to protect the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway from sand in Zhongwei, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, April 25, 1979. In the 1950s, to protect China's first railway that runs through a desert, the city of Zhongwei embarked on a journey of desert mitigation. Scientists at the Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, part of the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with local residents, developed straw checkerboards to stabilize the sand and prevent dunes from shifting. Tang Ximing, a senior engineer at a state-owned forestry farm in Zhongwei, crafted a steel tool that differs from regular shovels by featuring two horizontal bars at the front tip. This innovative tool enables the planting of seedling roots 50 centimeters deep into the moist sand layer. This simple tool increases the survival rate of afforestation by 25 percent to over 85 percent

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A Smart Agricultural Plant in Huzhou

HUZHOU, CHINA - JANUARY 8, 2024 - Two workers take care of soilless vegetables at a smart agricultural plant in Huzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, January 8, 2024.

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NIGERIA-KANO-CHINA-BACKED DESERTIFICATION CONTROL PROJECT

(230614) -- KANO, June 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Two maintenance workers plant a sapling at the site of a desertification control project in the Kunchi local government area in Kano state, Nigeria, on June 5, 2023. The desertification control project was launched by the African Desertification Control Initiative (ADCI) in Nigeria, with support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. TO GO WITH "Feature: China-backed project helps Nigeria build 'green wall' against desertification" (Xinhua/Guo Jun)

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China-built railway wagon assembly plant put into operation in Nigeria

STORY: China-built railway wagon assembly plant put into operation in Nigeria DATELINE: May 25, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:45 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of wagon assembly plant in southwest Nigeria 2. various of Chinese and Nigerian workers at the plant 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MU'AZU SAMBO, Nigeria's Minister of Transportation 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FIDET OKHIRIA, Managing director, Nigerian Railway Corporation 5. various of train moving along the tracks of a local market STORYLINE: A railway wagon assembly plant built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) in southwest Nigeria's Ogun state was officially put into operation on Monday. The Kajola Wagon Assembly Plant has an annual capacity of producing 500 wagons, including open wagons, container flat wagons and box wagons. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MU'AZU SAMBO, Nigerian Minister of Transportation "This assembly plant is one of the two corporate social responsibility projects initiated and being executed by our C

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2 workers die at Fukushima Daiichi, Daini nuclear plants

NARAHA, Japan - Senior officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., including Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (C), bow during a press conference on Jan. 20, 2015, in the northeastern Japanese city of Naraha, as two workers died in separate accidents at the Daiichi plant and the nearby Daini complex, despite TEPCO's pledge to improve working conditions at the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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Clash in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A man among sewing plant workers hurls a Molotov cocktail at security forces in a suburb of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, 2014. At least two people died in a clash the same day between Cambodian protesters and authorities in the area, police and military police sources said.

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Clash in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Sewing plant workers face security forces in a suburb of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, 2014. At least two people died in a clash the same day between Cambodian protesters and authorities in the area, police and military police sources said.

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Fukushima nuclear plant 2 years after accident

SENDAI, Japan - Folded paper cranes, a symbol of peace, and messages of encouragement for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are displayed in an antiseismic building at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013, about two years after the nuclear accident.

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Japanese executives locked up in China in labor dispute

SHANGHAI, China - Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2013, shows a factory of an electronic parts maker in Shanghai owned by Japan's Shinmei Electric Co. Workers at the plant locked up around 10 Japanese executives for two days to press their demands for better pay and working conditions, releasing them early on Jan. 20 after police intervention.

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Suzuki resumes production at violence-wracked Indian plant

MANESAR, India - Photo shows a plant of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., India's largest automaker, in Manesar in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Aug. 21, 2012, where operations resumed the same day amid tight security after a one-month hiatus. Maruti Suzuki, Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Co.'s Indian subsidiary, shut down the plant on July 21, three days after it was racked by worker violence that led to the death of a plant manager and left more than 100 people injured including two Japanese workers.

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2 workers may have exceeded radiation exposure limit

CHIBA, Japan - Makoto Akashi, executive director of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, speaks in a press conference at the institute in the city of Chiba on May 30, 2011. Two Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees working at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant underwent health checks at the institute after it was found that they may have been exposed to radiation exceeding the maximum limit of 250 millisieverts.

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2 workers may have exceeded radiation exposure limit

CHIBA, Japan - Makoto Akashi, executive director of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, speaks in a press conference at the institute in the city of Chiba on May 30, 2011. Two Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees working at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant underwent health checks at the institute after it was found that they may have been exposed to radiation exceeding the maximum limit of 250 millisieverts.

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Irradiated workers hospitalized

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2011, shows the Fukushima Medical University hospital in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, where two of the three workers exposed to high-level radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were hospitalized the previous day. The three men in their 20s and 30s, who were laying cables underground at the No. 3 reactor, were exposed to water containing radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level.

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Probe continues on Mitsubishi Chemical's ethylene plant fire

MITO, Japan - Fire investigators inspect the Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. ethylene plant in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 24, two days after a fire gutted a cracking furnace used to refine naphtha and propylene. Four workers died in the blaze, which burned for 12 hours on Dec. 22.

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JCO, 6 employees found guilty over fatal nuke accident

MITO, Japan - Tomoyuki Inami (L), president of JCO Co., speaks at a press conference at the Mito District Court on March 3 after the local court found the company and six of its employees guilty of neglect leading to the deaths of two JCO workers in Japan's worst nuclear accident at its plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in 1999.

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GM, Toyota launch new sedan earmarked for Japan

FREMONT, United States - Workers at a joint assembly plant of Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Corp. (GM) in Fremont, California, celebrate June 3 the start of production of the Voltz sedan, a small car jointly developed by the two automakers for the Japanese market.

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Workers injured in nuclear power plant fire

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 9 shows Onagawa Nuclear Power Station of Tohoku Electric Power Co. in Miyagi Prefecture, where a small fire injured two workers before it was extinguished. There was no leak of radioactive material, local fire and government officials said.

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6 JCO officials plead guilty to negligence charges

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima (R), the former head of JCO Co.'s uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, enters the Mito District Court in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 23. Koshijima and five other JCO employees pleaded guilty to charges of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst nuclear accident in 1999 during the first hearing of their cases. Two of the workers -- Hisashi Ouchi, 35, and Masato Shinohara, 40 -- died from radiation sickness in December 1999 and April last year, respectively.

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Civic group members march in memory of Tokaimura victims

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear civic group members march in Tokyo on Sept. 30 in memory of two workers who died after Japan's worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, a year ago. On Sept. 30, 1999, an explosion occurred following a nuclear fission chain reaction at a uranium-processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. Two plant workers died months later.

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U.S. radiation expert consults with Japanese doctors

TOKYO, Japan - Robert Gale (center), a U.S. expert on treatment of victims of radiation exposure, discuss with two Japanese doctors Oct. 2 at the University of Tokyo Hospital. They are discussing how to treat three Japanese workers exposed to radiation last week at a nuclear-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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2 killed in training plane crash in NW Türkiye

STORY: 2 killed in training plane crash in NW Türkiye DATELINE: Dec. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the crashed training plane in Bursa (Ihlas News Agency) 2. photos of the crashed training plane in Bursa (Ihlas News Agency) STORYLINE: At least two people were killed when a single-engine training plane crashed in Türkiye's northwestern province of Bursa on Thursday, Ihlas News Agency reported. The plane crashed near a combined natural gas cycle power plant in the Osmangazi district of the city that carries the same name of the province, after taking off from Yunuseli Airport in the province's Yenisehir city at 3:40 p.m. local time (1240 GMT), according to the Ihlas report. The pilot and another person on board were killed, the report said, adding many firefighters, police, and medical workers were dispatched to the scene. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Istanbul, Türk

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2 die in explosion at biofuel plant in northern Spain

STORY: 2 die in explosion at biofuel plant in northern Spain DATELINE: May 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:32 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of site of the explosion 2. various of the explosion site (courtesy of the Civil Guard) STORYLINE: Two people died on Thursday in an explosion at a plant making biodiesel on the outskirts of the city of Calahorra in the La Rioja region of northern Spain, local emergency services said. The explosion happened at around 12:55 local time (1155 GMT) and the area was evacuated with a security perimeter set up one kilometer away from the explosion. The two people killed are believed to be workers from a different company other than from the biodiesel plant. No injuries were reported. Some 250 school children from the city of Zaragoza were among those evacuated. They were on a day-trip visiting the nearby Tierra Rapaz nature park. Members of the fire departments from Calahorra and Logrono were at the scene along with members of the local police and Civil

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-RICE PROCESSING PLANT

(220521) -- KUNDUZ, May 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Afghan workers work at a rice processing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, May 11, 2022. Rice and wheat flour are two main food sources in Afghanistan. More than 22 million out of the 35 million population face acute food shortages. TO GO WITH "Feature: Afghanistan's rice farmers struggle to feed their hungry nation" (Photo by Khibar Momand/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-RICE PROCESSING PLANT

(220521) -- KUNDUZ, May 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Afghan workers work at a rice processing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, May 11, 2022. Rice and wheat flour are two main food sources in Afghanistan. More than 22 million out of the 35 million population face acute food shortages. TO GO WITH "Feature: Afghanistan's rice farmers struggle to feed their hungry nation" (Photo by Khibar Momand/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-RICE PROCESSING PLANT

(220521) -- KUNDUZ, May 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Afghan workers work at a rice processing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, May 11, 2022. Rice and wheat flour are two main food sources in Afghanistan. More than 22 million out of the 35 million population face acute food shortages. TO GO WITH "Feature: Afghanistan's rice farmers struggle to feed their hungry nation" (Photo by Khibar Momand/Xinhua)

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Electrical discharge machine introduced by Nagatsu Manufacturing as part of its work automation efforts.

Nagatsu Seisakusho will begin automating its main plant to improve the efficiencyof machining die parts. The company will introduce work changers for 5-axis machining centers (MC) and other equipment to replace processed parts. The company plans to introduce several 5-axis MCs and work changers as a set if they are utilized smoothly. The installation cost is about 10 million yen. Workers without machining skills only need to take the workpiece and electrodes in and out of the shelves at the site. The company's domestic sales are about 1.6 billion yen. However, the domestic mold market is shrinking. Rather than expanding sales, this automation initiative is aimed at strengthening cost competitiveness and promoting work style reform. Once the automation at the head office plant gets going, the company plans to start automation at the Niigata plant in Mitsuke City, Niigata Prefecture in two to three years. (= September 18, 2019, photo credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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GM, Toyota launch new sedan earmarked for Japan

FREMONT, United States - Workers at a joint assembly plant of Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Corp. (GM) in Fremont, California, celebrate June 3 the start of production of the Voltz sedan, a small car jointly developed by the two automakers for the Japanese market.

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Police arrest former JCO execs over nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima, former head of JCO Co.'s uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, is among six former executives and current employees of the company who were arrested Oct. 11 on suspicion of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst-ever nuclear power accident last year at the plant. Two plant workers who were exposed to massive radiation in the accident subsequently died from radiation sickness.

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Civic group members march in memory of Tokaimura victims

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear civic group members march in Tokyo on Sept. 30 in memory of two workers who died after Japan's worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, a year ago. On Sept. 30, 1999, an explosion occurred following a nuclear fission chain reaction at a uranium-processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. Two plant workers died months later.

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M'bishi Motors resumes production of scandal-hit minicars

Workers head to Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Mizushima plant in the western Japan city of Kurashiki on July 4, 2016. The automaker the same day resumed the production of four minicar models that had been subject to its fuel economy data manipulations for the first time in about two and a half months. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan regains nuclear power supply under post-Fukushima regime

Workers at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Satsumasendai, southwestern Japan, applaud as the company begins supply of electricity generated by nuclear power on Aug. 14, 2015, the first Japanese utility to do so after a two-year hiatus. Public concern persists over the use of nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe continues on Mitsubishi Chemical's ethylene plant fire

MITO, Japan - Fire investigators inspect the Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. ethylene plant in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 24, two days after a fire gutted a cracking furnace used to refine naphtha and propylene. Four workers died in the blaze, which burned for 12 hours on Dec. 22. (Kyodo)

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6 JCO officials plead guilty to negligence charges

MITO, Japan - Kenzo Koshijima (R), the former head of JCO Co.'s uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, enters the Mito District Court in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 23. Koshijima and five other JCO employees pleaded guilty to charges of negligence resulting in death in Japan's worst nuclear accident in 1999 during the first hearing of their cases. Two of the workers -- Hisashi Ouchi, 35, and Masato Shinohara, 40 -- died from radiation sickness in December 1999 and April last year, respectively.

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Irradiated workers hospitalized

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2011, shows the Fukushima Medical University hospital in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, where two of the three workers exposed to high-level radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were hospitalized the previous day. The three men in their 20s and 30s, who were laying cables underground at the No. 3 reactor, were exposed to water containing radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level. (Kyodo)

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Investigation into deadly fire at Toyobo's plant

Photo taken Sept. 29, 2020, shows a fire department vehicle heading to the scene of a fire that left two workers dead and one injured two days earlier at Japanese fiber and biotechnology firm Toyobo Co.'s plant in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture.

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Investigation into deadly fire at Toyobo's plant

Photo taken Sept. 29, 2020, shows a fire department vehicle heading to the scene of a fire that left two workers dead and one injured two days earlier at Japanese fiber and biotechnology firm Toyobo Co.'s plant in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture.

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JCO, 6 employees found guilty over fatal nuke accident

MITO, Japan - Tomoyuki Inami (L), president of JCO Co., speaks at a press conference at the Mito District Court on March 3 after the local court found the company and six of its employees guilty of neglect leading to the deaths of two JOC workers in Japan's worst nuclear accident at its plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in 1999. (Kyodo)

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U.S. radiation expert consults with Japanese doctors

TOKYO, Japan - Robert Gale (center), a U.S. expert on treatment of victims of radiation exposure, discuss with two Japanese doctors Oct. 2 at the University of Tokyo Hospital. They are discussing how to treat three Japanese workers exposed to radiation last week at a nuclear-processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.