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...Brazil’s industry ministry has in the past six months opened at least half a dozen probes into alleged dumping of products from China’s manufacturing industries, ranging from metal sheets and pre-painted...
...of Mining and Metals, a global industry association....
...“To our knowledge, a lot of the cable that is stolen is used for illegal electrical connections in the townships,” Quintin Starkey, chair of South Africa’s Metal Recyclers Association, told me....
...The train and engine service members of the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) voted to reject the five-year collective...
...“If you could get away with not paying any of your workers, your books would look a lot better,” she says. “We’re getting away with not paying nature, the ultimate worker.”...
...The supply of workers has been hit by deaths and long Covid....
...The male-dominated metals and financial services industries have a long way to go to improve diversity, she says....
...The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have said they will not accept any proposal from the railways that...
...Slum dwellings — often erected on land reclaimed from the sea and built without permits using cheap materials such as corrugated metal sheets — offer Freetonians scant protection from higher temperatures...
...Her fellow panellists were former Trump national security adviser General Michael Flynn and a guy who runs Beverly Hills Precious Metals....
...This applies to energy too — what was local is now often international. Often, these enterprises are in rural locations lacking mains gas, so many use bottled liquefied petroleum gas....
...Local authorities redesigned town centres to favour walking and cycling over polluting private car access, and gave more space on streets to local businesses....
...I know from reading Daltrey’s entertaining autobiography, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite, that he did actually build this network of lakes himself; a former sheet-metal worker, he’s always been pretty handy...
...But Kibsa says that three months ago he was invited to three rounds of talks in Kaya, where, he says, military and government officials, international NGO workers and traditional leaders were also present...
...“The real, local rum bars. They have the bright colours, that galvanised metal, it makes you feel good.”...
...local content requirement”....
...Mayor Orlando Morando insists the decision was down to the US automaker’s global strategy at the time, rather than local factors....
...The Aluminum Association, which represents the majority of US and foreign companies in the industry — including those that take the input metal and process it into sheet, foil and plate form — last month...
...The sector is estimated to account for between 7 and 9 per cent of all direct fossil fuel emissions, according to the World Steel Association....
...A 10 per cent jump in the crude price raises inflation indices by between 0.5 to 1 per cent, depending on the country, according to a recent paper from the International Association for Energy Economics....
...and regional needs and be accountable to local communities....
...Under the new French legal framework, which was introduced last year, companies outline their purpose, link it to ESG objectives and incorporate it in their articles of association....
...“My factory restarted operations [in] February and Yiwu’s international trade market [a major wholesale centre] has also reopened,” she says. “So far half of our workers and salesmen are back at work....
...Previously, the law applied to any industrial site with seven or more workers and machinery of at least five horsepower....
...But once it comes ashore and dies, it produces toxic gases and leaches acid and heavy metals back into the sea, altering the water’s pH and depriving the oceans of oxygen....
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