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...Aircraft Corporation....
...In one incident in December 2021, refinery workers were exposed to methanol, a flammable and toxic gas, due to faulty equipment. In another, fire suppression equipment had not been quickly repaired....
...Meanwhile, as a “just in time” production approach was employed over the past few decades, US contractors were discouraged from having excess capacity that might be needed in the event of a supply chain...
...contractors to arrange maintenance work for the fall....
...But it’s going to be, I think, a long time before India becomes a real, original equipment manufacturer, to use the jargon, that is a company that develops its own defence products....
...Construction equipment rental group Ashtead has pledged to keep its stock market listing in London even as its booming US business prompted the FTSE 100 company to lift its full-year profit forecast....
...No outside contractor had been willing to take on Nigerian risk, he said, so he had to design and build the whole thing in-house. “We didn’t cut costs. We didn’t cut corners,” he said....
...“One guy dropped out and the general contractor had to find a replacement, who charged 30 per cent more,” he says....
...The potential buyers, led by an international pension fund, have made an offer to Britishvolt’s existing shareholders, which include FTSE 100 mining company Glencore and equipment rental group Ashtead as...
...But as Harvard Business School professor Matthew Weinzierl has argued, while costs decreased and innovation in the reuse of materials and equipment increased, so did monopoly power....
...My guest this week is Jason Matheny, president of the Rand Corporation in California....
...Mitsubishi Heavy, the main contractor, says the simpler design of the new rocket compared to its predecessor makes it less prone to explosions....
...You don’t get that if you just buy off-the-shelf American [equipment].”...
...Corporation tax is a tax on investment not on shareholders, corporation tax revenue should be reduced to zero....
...The equipment rental company, which trades under the name Sunbelt Rentals, has raised its full-year guidance after first-half operating profits shot up by over a third and group revenue neared $3.9bn (£2.9bn...
...China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, a state-owned contractor, set up a local presence in 2015....
...FTSE 100 construction equipment rental group Ashtead reported a “record first half performance”, with pre-tax profits up almost 40 per cent on the first half of last year to $890m and revenues up 18 per...
...It’s a question that was recently asked by a trade union leader in Germany, where there has been a push to seize corporate-owned rental units and put them in public ownership....
...The government reaffirmed its intention to hold revaluations every three years rather than every five, making the system more responsive to changes in rental market conditions....
...One way to broadly estimate it is to look at the growth of sensors measuring and collecting data in industrial equipment, vehicles and other internet-connected devices....
...Australia has blocked a A$300m takeover offer by a Chinese state-owned company for a local building contractor in a move that reflects the intense diplomatic and trade tensions between Beijing and Canberra...
...SMIC did not answer questions about the specific issues raised in the defence contractor’s report....
...Uber still faces a ruling this autumn from the UK’s Supreme Court on whether its drivers should be treated as employees instead of independent contractors. 2....
...Rising mortgage rates (and a potential shortage of rental units) will add significantly to the cost of living for households across the income spectrum....
...HOLD: Ashtead (AHT) The long-term structural drivers remain in place, with the swing from equipment ownership to rental perhaps even accelerating going forward, writes Mark Robinson....
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