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...At the southernmost tip of Texas, alongside the Gulf of Mexico, a gleaming stainless steel rocket has been rising from the salt marshes....
...Contracts seen by the FT show that an ETK company in Singapore agreed to buy steel produced by Jiangsu Shagang group of China at $935 a tonne and to sell steel to the Russian pipeline manufacturer TMK for...
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...“In some cases, they’re still a little apprehensive to allow contractors in their home,” said Mr Ellison....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...Manila said it would own 60 per cent of the venture, which would help to secure the country’s energy supplies for the future....
...Mick Davis’ X2 Resources failed to make a single purchase partly because of opposition among some of its investors to buying coal assets....
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...Also involved as contractors are steel behemoth Posco and the Samsung group’s Samsung C&T, both South Korean....
...“If the goal is to do bad things, automated systems and algorithms could help you do bad things faster,” says John Salch, technology leader with PROS Holdings Inc, a Houston-based pricing software company...
...There is a dearth of green alternatives to the fossil fuels used to make steel, cement or plastics, he adds....
...In China, the most-traded steel rebar contract fell by its most since it started trading in 2009 and iron ore futures dropped by their daily limit of 6 per cent....
...Lockheed Martin of the US, for example, is the world’s biggest military contractor in part because the US government decided to supply its air force, navy and marines with variants of a single fighter aircraft...
...Nearby, others are busy with an aircraft-shaped steel frame equipped with the moving parts of a new aircraft....
...The setback could give a timely boost to Sea Launch, which is 95 per cent owned by Energia, Russia’s biggest space contractor and the leader in manned space exploration....
...The company rejected a higher offer from new shareholder, mining contractor Mineral Resources Ltd, that valued the company at A$1.54 billion ($1.45 billion)....
...an eye on contractors refurbishing the cavernous former theatre around her....
...“We’re in a just-in-time world,” says Scott Davis, chief executive of UPS, the parcel and logistics company, a major beneficiary of the outsourcing trend....
...He offered the example of copper: “We expect the world will need to add a supply of around 1m tonnes a year for the next 10 years, which in a decade means there is a 40 per cent increase....
...V Sridhar, head of the operations at the Manesar plant, explains that rising input and energy costs have put pressure on the company’s margins....
...A survey released this week found that four companies that supply Bombardier could close and more than 1,100 jobs would be lost in the supply chain....
...In the worst case, Prof Gittus said, the fuel rods in the core would melt, fracturing the reactor’s pressure vessel and then breaking the concrete and steel containment around it....
...As well as supplies of uranium fuel, the big nuclear companies are concerned about shortages of skilled workers and some core components, such as the large steel vessels at the heart of reactors....
...In his famous 1911 decision in Parke-Davis & Co v HK Mulford & Co, Judge Learned Hand carved out an exception to that general rule, saying “while it is of course possible logically to call this a purification...
...Production data from China showing that factory output had hit a 19-month high in October lifted commodity-based stocks, pushing United States Steel 3.2 per cent higher to $39.30....
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