This week it will reveal that production, on the other hand, surged.
Light-truck production is now surging as a result.
Industrial production, which had been merely inching up earlier in the summer, surged seven-tenths of a percent in July.
After the new owners took control of the formerly state-run plant, design work and production surged.
But as production surges on the Mexican side of the border, it is drying up to the north.
Industrial production surged nine-tenths of 1 percent in November as factory use rose, driven higher by auto production.
In fact, production surged between 2000 and 2006.
China reported on Monday that industrial production surged in October, highlighting again its torrid economic growth.
During World War 1, employment and production at the factories surged, where the company size increased from 300 to a high of 7,500.
Industrial production surged 5.7% in the year to December while the volume of retail sales rose by 4.9%.