1.   It also said it would shutter four plants, discontinue its struggling steel-pail business and sell its metal-services division to boost its stock price.

2.   Manufacturers have coped partly by shuttering older plants.

3.   That announcement was part of a broad defense reorganization that shuttered plants in Lowell, Northborough, Norwood and elsewhere.

4.   He did not specify which plants could be shuttered.

5.   The company also has incurred billions in charges to shake up Chrysler and Freightliner, announcing plans to shutter plants and lay off thousands of workers.