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CLEARFIELD, Utah (AP) -- A Utah company with overseas operations is expecting a visit by U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman at its factory in China.
Clearfield-based Lifetime Products makes folding and picnic tables and chairs and plans to unveil a new mass-produced house.
The company invited Huntsman -- Utah's former governor -- for a visit Friday at its new manufacturing plant in the prosperous southern port city of Xiamen, once known in the West as Amoy.
Huntsman was to show up with the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in south China.
The company planned to show off a new product, the EcoHouse. It's a fabricated house meant for impoverished or disaster-stricken areas.
The EcoHouse -- made from a durable plastic with steel reinforcement -- is 11 feet by 38 feet.
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