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...Thomas Conway, USW president, said in an August 13 letter to members that “Cliffs did not cut union jobs” after buying AK Steel and ArcelorMittal USA and that the 11,000 unionised workers at US Steel would...
...Meanwhile, Sir Jonathan’s focus is already starting to look beyond the steel and glass borders of Apple Park, saying he wants to “solve some complicated problems”....
...Shares in Kobe Steel fell as much 4.7 per cent on Wednesday after the company revealed it was under investigation by Japanese authorities over a data fabrication scandal....
...The chief executive of Kobe Steel has announced his resignation over a data fabrication scandal that has further dented corporate Japan’s once-vaunted reputation for quality....
...Cargill, the world’s biggest agricultural trading company, has agreed to sell its US steel fabrication centres as it continues to shuffle its sprawling portfolio in search of better returns....
...Kobe Steel has sought to blame at least a decade of data fabrication across multiple production facilities on a closed corporate culture, over-pursuit of profits and “unbalanced” factory management....
...To my mind, these were less successful than the simpler “made in Ohio” moulded-rubber dresses, an industrial fabrication used to create mid-century shapes....
...It recent months it has made significant changes to its portfolio of assets, selling its stake in a steel mill and buying a salmon feed company....
...In that time he has started to prune the company’s sprawling portfolio, selling its US pork and steel production businesses....
...China reacted angrily to the indictment, saying the charges were based on “fabrications” and a “serious breach of international norms”, and should be withdrawn....
...While that is comparable to rates in India and Thailand, China Inc tops the tables with business borrowings equivalent to 125 per cent of gross domestic product....
...Despite big job losses in recent decades, Teesside today is a base for world-class industries in areas such as petrochemicals, steel, wind-farm fabrication and marine engineering, says John Lowther, a locally...
...Think of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s label, The Row, and their military-style ribbed wool jacket with three rows of steel buttons instead of the usual two ($1,790)....
...CMC operates in five different markets, spanning scrap metal, US steel mills, the fabrication of reinforcing bars used in construction and international operations in Poland and Croatia....
...The shipyard that built the world’s biggest container ships is to cease production after Denmark’s AP Moller-Maersk decided the loss-making Odense Steel Shipyard was no longer viable....
...The shipyard would continue but would target smaller ships, an industrial area would be offered for the use of other companies doing heavy steel fabrication and a third area would be shared between the different...
...But instead of only cutting, grinding and machining steel plate, it now also welds the steel into structures, and assembles them into fully finished painted products....
...Workers cook thousands of kilograms of rice, curry and vegetables in giant steel pots, filling the room with steam and the sound of clanging metal. They stir curry with paddles the size of oars....
...His father was much more low key but ultimately there was a spine of steel there.” Such qualms play into fears about the family’s commitment, this person says....
...“Many corporates use more than one commodity in any finished product and have other fabrication costs associated with it that cannot be excluded....
...Growth in Asian industrial activity, particularly the production and fabrication of metals such as steel essential to infrastructure, is driving demand for oxygen and argon....
...It is a fabrication of the media,” Xu told the Shanghai Securities News, adding that the company lacks the financial muscle....
...believes that (media) reports that Baosteel plans to buy Rio Tinto are untrue… Baosteel believes the launching of BHP Billiton’s plan to buy Rio Tinto is likely to have huge implications for the world’s steel...
...“It is a fabrication of the media.”...
...Capacity is also growing fast in the memory industry as rival manufacturers race to build 300mm wafer fabrication plants and jump on the NAND flash bandwagon....
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