1.   As part of a plan to exploit the disaffection felt by manufacturing workers in the industrial belt, Buchanan Tuesday visited the Youngstown Steel Door mill in Ohio.

2.   In Germany, Kombiverkehr, the trucking cooperative, operates shuttles between German cities and industrial belts around Milan and Barcelona, Spain.

3.   Last year Goodyear bought tire operations in Poland, the Philippines and South Africa, as well as a company that makes industrial belts in North Carolina.

4.   Local news agencies reported widespread support for the strike in the Buenos Aires industrial belt and in the city of Cordoba, where auto production is centered.

5.   The Chrysler plant, to be built in the Calabarzon industrial belt south of Manila, will assemble just two models -- Jeep Cherokees and Dodge Caravans.

6.   Kee Fat produces around three million automotive and four million industrial belts a year at its manufacturing plant in Kulai Industrial estates in Johor.

7.   More protests are expected in the industrial belts around Jakarta and Surabaya in eastern Java.

8.   Today the entire industrial belt around the Ceat factory is experiencing a labour crisis -- retrenchments and lockouts have become the order of the day.

9.   At the Calabarzon industrial belt south of Manila, private export processing zones switched to their own emergency power to limit the damage and keep the assembly lines running.

10.   Several fires blazed out of control for the second day since the seismic crunch hit the Kobe-Osaka industrial belt at dawn on Tuesday.