The thing is, being a precious metals refiner is not actually the most difficult of jobs.
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Mitsubishi Oil, the seventh-biggest refiner, expects operating losses for the second year in a row.
Thus a gold manufacturer (a miner or refiner or minter) occupied a special place in the economy.
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Valero Energy , a refiner that processes lower quality crude oil into products like gasoline and jet fuel.
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Now obviously, a copper scrap refiner does not pay the full value of the copper contained within scrap.
Today Roxas chairman emeritus of Roxas Holdings, nation's largest producer of raw sugar and second-largest refiner of raw sugar.
Example: Gasoline refiner Tosco agreed in February to be acquired by Phillips Petroleum.
The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.
It is home to independent crude-oil refiner Western Refining Co. and to Fort Bliss and has a rich history.
The nation's biggest refiner, Valero, for example, made less gasoline in the first quarter than it did a year ago.
Foster founded the El Paso-based refiner in 1997, taking over an old Chevron refinery, and later went public in 2006.
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John Hess (nyse: HES - news - people ), chief executive of oil producer and refiner Hess Corp.
Even cloven, Marathon would be formidable, as a top-ten U.S. explorer and producer, with 380, 000 barrels per day, and the fifth-largest refiner.
European refiner Petroplus recently decided to shut down operations at three of five of its refineries across Europe due to credit constraints.
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Another top buy was Calumet Specialty Products Partners, an Indianapolis-based refiner of crude oil into fuels and products for lubrication and paints.
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The break-up is scheduled to take effect the end of this month and will create the second-largest U.S. refiner after Valero Energy.
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It's pretty clear if you're making products you're making products and if you're processing products like if you're an oil refiner, you're a processor.
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You might think that a scrap refiner is going to look pretty oddly at a container load of coins turning up to be processed.
Apple is a refiner, not an innovator, and the beauty of its devices is in how well they pull together the available functions and features.
John Hess, chief executive of oil producer and refiner Hess Corp.
It is home to independent crude-oil refiner Western Refining Co.
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It was a neat idea that Holly was able to pull off because of its position as perhaps the most financially stable independent refiner in the nation.
That year the refiner held an international tender supervised by chemical industry experts and selected ftl, a Cayman Islands entity Sapir set up for the polypropylene plant.
Though the deal would make Valero the largest refiner in the U.S., it would hold only the No. 2 spot in both the Northeast and Gulf Coast markets.
Sinopec, one of China's largest state-controlled firms, is mostly a refiner, but that business is tough in China because the government keeps consumer fuel prices low, pressuring profit margins.
And in a year when oil prices were climbing, one has to ask what was going on at oil explorer Japan Energy Corp. (No. 49) and refiner-distributor Idemitsu Kosan (No. 51).
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