This article is about manufacturing plants. For Andy Warhol's 1960s studio, see The Factory. For the 1980s British record label, see Factory Records.

A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Archetypally, factories gather and concentrate resources — workers, capital and plant.

Word usage

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Before becoming associated with large-scale manufacturing, the term factory might refer to:

• a foreign-based trading station. Proto-colonies in West Africa and India often featured such factories.
• China also had factories, or warehouses, run by factors. These were restricted to a special area in Canton from 1760 until 1842 under the Canton System.
• the activity of factors (mercantile agents).

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of factory as a manufacturing site, plant or works back as far as 1618.

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JazziiDH (Jasmine) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:14:54 -0000
@Bobs_here mmmm huge candy factory! lol. Only a couple more weeks and I gotta give it all up in January lol.
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Bobs_here (Bob) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:05:08 -0000
@JazziiDH YIKES! I was watching a show on "Holiday Eats" and there was a HUGE candy cane factory...It was pretty cool watching the process..
It smells like peppermint outside. Its either the Sees candy factory down the block or I'm having a stroke.
liezl (liezl) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:29:07 -0000
It smells like peppermint outside. Its either the Sees candy factory down the block or I'm having a stroke.
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julielermanvt (Julie Lerman) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:47:58 -0000
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