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In little more than a decade, the country has become by far the biggest producer in the world of every industrial commodity from steel to glass to cement, and the finished products it exports to other countries are gradually matching and surpassing the sophistication of items produced indigenously in those countries.
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One or just a few companies still dominate the production of goods such as cement, glass, soft drinks, flour, sugar, and bread.
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Flurospar: used in construction, cement, glass, iron and steel castings.
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Builders watch out: electricity makes up 8% of the cost of making glass, 15% of cement and 20%-plus of bricks.
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Last spring, I posted a column on this blog arguing that, in the pharmaceutical business, the glass ceiling looks a bit like cement.
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Last year, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando designed the Stone Hill Center, a 32, 000-square-foot cement-and-glass space that is the area's first modern architectural icon -- and a seamless addition to the serene grounds.
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The sidewalks of the town were gray in the early morning and at night, but the noon sun put a glaze on them, so that the cement burned and glittered like glass.
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The "stone" walls are actually a mix of cement powder and crushed beer bottle or windshield glass.
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