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...Frank Perryman, chief executive of a privately held titanium mill in Pittsburgh that sells metal products to parts makers, said aerospace suppliers had reduced headcount and needed to see more orders before...
...There’s something captivating about molten metal: the pure glow, the transformation of permanence into motion....
...Fortescue Metals Group Sector: mining / HQ: Perth, Australia One of the year’s biggest beneficiaries of the soaring iron ore price, which hit a nine-year high in December, has been Fortescue Metals Group...
...He treats his domestic constituencies, and often Congress, with a casualness bordering on contempt, writes Free Trade co-author Alan Beattie....
...Mr Joy, who co-founded Sun Microsystems and wrote some of the founding code of the internet, says such technologies are critical to addressing climate change....
...A trip to Pittsburgh in 1902 — then the world’s leading steel city — helped his scheme take shape....
...Sub Pop co-founder Bruce Pavitt recalls encountering Nirvana for the first time, casting an ear over the demo with fellow label boss Jonathan Poneman....
...The liquid metal battery is not due to be ready for commercial testing until the first part of 2014....
...For every sparkling new Pittsburgh or Denver, there is a still devastated Flint, Michigan or Gary, Indiana....
...China’s relative weakness could create opportunities for Alcoa, Mr Kleinfeld says at the company’s modest New York offices – the largest corporate centre is in Pittsburgh....
...He turned the shiny, imperturbable aesthetic against itself, embellishing metal boxes and glass tubes with pulsing, hairy flesh....
...The Pittsburgh-based company said that a series of facility shutdowns resulted in a spike in one-time charges, but continued to forecast faster growth in demand for products in the developing world and aerospace...
...The company’s cast rolls are used in the metals industry to press and shape steel for industrial, construction and consumer products use....
...More than 100,000 people still work in manufacturing in the Pittsburgh region and many are still employed in metal production, according to official figures....
...FTfm, video: Why gold prices have further to go Evy Hambro, managing director of BlackRock and co-manager of the BlackRock Gold and General Fund, says the most important driver of gold prices has been the...
...Instead, evidence this week of resurgent growth in China’s economy, one of the world’s biggest consumers of oil and industrial metals, raised investors’ hopes that the global economy could be at a turning...
...In 2005 Mr Habib bought out his co-founder, paying $30,000 for his stake of roughly 50 per cent. He now owns about 96 per cent of the business....
...The metal of the moment is a warm-toned pink gold and the dominant diamond cut is the discrete baguette....
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