For example, in 1998 a strike occurred at a North Korean Iron and Steel factory following the brutal execution of several factory managers.
More, Strassel notes another Bain steel factory investment, Steel Dynamics, has increased revenue 25 times since its 1996 IPO and now employs 6, 000 workers.
The steel factory tour generated no pictures, but his stops at a library and an electronics research facility in Jagang Province the day before did.
To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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Paying for electricity with coal brought in from Russia, they started financing steel production at the factory.
In the past, Hakuta might find himself carrying a load of stainless-steel pipes from a factory in Tokyo's suburbs to Nagoya, only to return home empty-handed.
Tata had an easier time buying Jaguar, and even Corus, the former British Steel, than opening a factory in his own country.
But notice that this conclusion depends on the fact that the basic inputs to shoe production leather and rubber, steel and bricks for the factory, and so on are available for purchase in competitive markets.
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Drew Greenblatt is an enthusiast: proud of his company, Marlin Steel, and proud of the factory floor packed with state-of-the-art equipment.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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Unfortunately, his factory was bombed twice and steel was unavailable to rebuild.
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The factory floor space at Marlin Steel is being doubled and there is no doubt the company is doing well, prospering even, during the bad years.
His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.
When ArcelorMittal, a steel giant, announced the closure of part of a factory at Gandrange in eastern France earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy rushed to the scene with promises to keep the plant alive even if it meant investing state money.
He'd be squeezed against scores of other swine, hoofing a steel grate floor, while growing fatter and fatter on a factory farm.
The suppliers, not Chrysler, would assume responsibility for running large sections of the factory, such as the body shop, where steel car frames are welded together by robots.
Here we have a new factory that will bring good jobs to a struggling locale, and yet the Steel Caucus has the temerity to claim that the deal will threaten American jobs.
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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
Since then the north-east has seen strikes most shockingly, in July 2009, a protest involving thousands of workers at a steel plant in Tonghua, in Jilin province, who beat to death a manager because of moves to privatise the factory.
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