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...Only the dullest mind could fail to imagine a giddy future: lines of robotic arms fabricating shiny new AI-designed materials to solve grand challenges like clean energy....
...The Dresden fab follows a $40bn investment in a new advanced chip complex in Arizona and a joint venture in Japan, where TSMC is building a plant for making specialty technology — a range of niche chips...
...“If Toyota or anyone else succeeds in fabricating solid-state batteries that are cost competitive and deliver the lifetime that is needed, then they could deliver a step-up in energy density and 10-minute...
...Lee at Morningstar is confident in TSMC’s growth: “Even with its dominant market share, we believe the company can deliver above-industry growth through a higher proportion of more valuable specialty products...
...“We will focus our investment on specialty. For manufacturing greenfield expansion, we don’t rule it out, as long as demand can justify it.”...
...“Africa was his real specialty and he’d never made a cent.” Out of this meeting came Lonely Planet’s iconic Africa on a Shoestring. Crowther wrote and drew the maps for the first edition....
...The details of the correspondence emerged in the claim by Tata, which is suing three of Gupta’s companies — Liberty Specialty Steels, Liberty House Group and Speciality Steel UK — over the partial payment...
...Grayer was most recently a senior executive at managing general underwriter Concord Specialty Risk....
...This is not Onex’s first foray into insurance — it has also backed Ryan Specialty and York Risk Services....
...The company submitted its claim to a group of insurers led by Zurich and Liberty Specialty Markets....
...Richard Dudley, chief executive of Aon’s wholesale and specialty insurance broking business, said: “We are very supportive of what [Mr Neal] is doing....
...One mystery here is the identity of the investment consortia buyers, “Gemstone Investment Holding Ltd” and “Allied Cigar Corporation, S.L”....
...While a few of Pershing Square’s investments — ADP, Chipotle and Platform Specialty Products — are up on the year overall, each of the fund’s main holdings are down this month....
...Alex Humphreys, a partner at Apollo, said: “We look forward to working with Aspen to build on the existing high quality specialty insurance and reinsurance business and we aim to leverage Apollo’s resources...
...“Taiwanese semiconductor makers put more focus on specialty memory products and niche markets, in which sectors there is few comparable rival company or capacity in the US,” Jian-Hong Lin, research manager...
...Last month Carlyle, the Washington-based private equity group, won a fiercely competitive auction to take over Akzo Nobel’s €10.1bn specialty chemicals unit after the business became a takeover target....
...Carlyle wins fight for Akzo Nobel speciality chemicals arm A group of investors led by US buyout giant Carlyle agreed to pay €10.1bn including debt for Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals unit after months...
...“Parts are huge,” said Bill Russo, founder of Shanghai-based consultancy Automobility Ltd. China exported $9bn of auto parts to the US in 2017, according to Chinese customs figures....
...Akzo had hatched a plan to sell off its own specialty chemicals business to help offset acquisition costs. Nippon Paint’s all-cash offer evidently appealed more to Axalta. With good reason....
...Teva will need focus, as either a generic or specialty producer, and to shrink a bloated balance sheet....
...Specialty chemicals group Croda topped the FTSE 100 on Tuesday morning, on a positive morning that also saw bookmakers benefit from the publication of a long-delayed report on betting machines....
...Hiscox, the specialty insurer, said on Monday that it forecasts claims of about $150m resulting from Hurricane Harvey that devastated Houston, Texas last month....
...UBS thinks the specialty chemicals sale could fetch €9.2bn....
...A separate agreement with Yantai Service Agricultural Science and Technology Co Ltd (瑟威思农业科技有限公司), was also announced....
...“IOI is excited about the opportunity to participate in the future growth of the combined Bunge and Loders business and to realize our shared ambition of forming a formidable global specialty edible oils...
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