Today Courtice Steel makes good money, producing 250, 000 metric tons of long products a year.
The largest units measure 15 feet by 60 feet long and weigh up to 50 tons.
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Costa Allegra, built in 1992 by Mariotti shipyards in Genoa, is 28, 597 tons, and 188 meters long.
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Built by EADS, it weighs in at 652.5 tons, is 239 feet long and has a fuselage 23 feet, 5 inches in diameter.
The IOWA, which served in World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, is 14 stories high, 887 feet long and weighs more than 45, 000 tons.
Stretching 134 feet long and 55 feet high and weighing 52 tons, the scoreboard is the largest high-definition video display in the world, delivering crisp instant replays and ad messages plus game timing, player stats and, of course, animation to whip the home crowd into a frenzy.
Giganotosaurus was, according to palaeontologist Dr. Jorge Calvo, a terrifying spectacle: a 10-ton meat-eater that was 46ft (14m) long, 23ft (7m) tall and three tons heavier than North America's bad boy Tyrannosaurus Rex.
In 2010, shipments from the long carbon Americas and Europe division totaled approximately 23 million tons.
The Shell vessel will weigh about 600, 000 tons when fully loaded, be 1600 feet long and 242 feet wide.
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The division has 6 flat and long production facilities in three countries and shipped approximately 13 million tons of steel in 2010.
Under a long term supply agreement, Indonesia was committed to supply 10 million tons of liquefied national gas (LNG) to Japan this year.
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In the U.S., gold jewelry continued its long term downward path with fourth quarter demand down 9 percent to 42.7 tons while full-year demand fell by 11 percent to 115.1 tons.
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The decline in U.S. emissions from 2005 to 2012 706 million metric tons of carbon dioxide puts the U.S. a long way toward achieving the 17% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 2005 the Obama administration set as its 2020 goal a few years ago.
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He hopes to be selling around 50 metric tons of the stuff by next year, enough to fill five 20-foot long containers.
The focus on the long and difficult supply lines was also a reminder of how vulnerable Nato will be as it trundles thousands of tons of equipment home, and men and materiel queue up to get out.
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