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...De Kestelier is planning to manufacture soft furniture there, using waste plastic to grow mycelium as the raw material....
...Legal risk looks zero sum, at least at the corporation level, since the deal’s reverse termination clause capped Musk’s potential damages at $1bn....
...His words underlined the deep ties between Japan Inc and Thailand, a market Toyota and some of Japan’s other big corporations have come to see as part of their own backyard....
...In that time it became the world’s most valuable company, while placing itself at the centre of geopolitical tensions....
...One is encased in a plastic blister pack; the other is tied to its cardboard backing by two tags. Walmart will save “tons” of plastic by changing this one product’s packaging, she explains....
...And while he commends his company’s ability to lead this shift, he also says it should not be down to corporations alone....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...In the centre is a stool surrounded by a metal frame dotted with more than 40 digital cameras. I picked my way gingerly over a tangle of cables and took a seat....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 10. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Last week, the government decided to establish a Russian national clearing system as a separate corporation controlled by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR)....
...In a recent series of work, he shows walls of buildings in the centre of Lagos that have been filled with scrawled slogans advertising various services....
...DBM’s sale in 1962 to an arm of Howard Hughes Corporation proved to be disastrous and ended in bankruptcy for his creation....
...Enter Donghoon Chang, executive vice president and head of the design strategy team at Samsung’s corporate design centre, and his six colleagues....
...With industry in decline, opportunities for designers to work for big corporations started to disappear....
...But few users of products made by Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation would know, or care, of the workings of the state-backed petrochemicals conglomerate....
...The innovation centres please Mr Hauser, although he is irritated that ministers have spurned his proposal to call them “Clerk Maxwell centres” in honour of James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish physicist....
...P&G’s list of partners includes other large corporations, such as food groups ConAgra and General Mills, and rivals, including its Glad brand plastic bag joint venture with Clorox, set up in 2003....
...Carlco rose 21.2 per cent to 300p after the producer of precision plastics was tipped by David Schwartz in the Weekend FT....
...These include Siemens, which announced in October that it plans to set up a €4m ($5.3m) metallurgical service centre, and BASF, which is building a plastics additives factory....
...The industry’s centre of gravity tipped decisively to Asia, where China replaced the US as the world’s largest vehicle market in 2009....
...Then, after applying an intensive mask to my hair, I am manoeuvred into position under the plastic halo....
...So, walking into a dimly lit corridor, visitors will don plastic boots (to assist with sound absorption)....
...Aside from Citi, Kingdom owns some serious assets – stakes in companies like Apple, Pepsico, Proctor & Gamble, News Corporation – as well as genuine trophy assets like the Hotel George V in Paris....
...“We depend on plastic so much …but now people are saying hold on, let’s check out the rates. And let’s be more cautious.” Ms Moore has also seen signs of improvement....
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