1.   On the upside, the move to concentrate thermal production in Pennsylvania helped margins through increased productivity.

2.   Danisco aims at making its sugar operations more effective by concentrating production at its largest factories in Denmark and Sweden.

3.   Nasser said Ford will concentrate car production at its most efficient plants.

4.   To help the profitability of the PC business, NEC has reorganized its production structure, concentrating production of desktop machines at two sites instead of five.

5.   Volvo has decided to close three bus factories in Western Europe and concentrate production at a new plant in Poland.

6.   He said the company has transferred audio production responsibilities from its Singapore facilities to Malaysia, and plans to concentrate audio production in China and Malaysia in the future.

7.   The company said its decision was part of a strategy of concentrating production at fewer and bigger plants.

8.   After closing Vilvorde, Renault will concentrate production, with each factory in Europe producing a single model.

9.   It will concentrate production at its plant in Butte, Montana.