The cyber- assault on Aramco also only hit desktop computers rather than operational plant and machinery.
And long-term foreign direct investment in plant and machinery, much of it linked to privatisation, is playing a more important role.
"While current-account deficits of South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are deep, they are the result of huge imports of plant and machinery, " he explains.
Planners said the economic benefit would be "fairly minor" and the industrial plant and machinery would have a "harmful impact on the open character and appearance" of the rural area.
It ought to be poised for an export-led boom: it has a hugely competitive exchange rate, good infrastructure and has had a decade of high investment in plant and machinery.
"One of the most likely explanations of the so-called 'productivity puzzle' is that companies are either reluctant or unable to make big investments in new plant, machinery and equipment, perhaps due to the uncertain economic outlook or a lack of available finance, or a combination of both, " he said.
Methods that have been tried in the past include the release of South American weevils that eat the plant, as well as machinery that shreds from the water surface.
The investment includes expanding the plant's furnaces and installing new machinery.
Rick Wyan(ph) installs machinery at the company's plant in Rochester.
New production machinery will be installed at the Baldovie Road plant which will enable it to make the latest generation of car tyres, Michelin said.
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These range from miners, such as Canada's UEX, to suppliers of turbines and other plant gear (Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Russia's United Heavy Machinery) to the all-purpose giants (Cameco and Areva).
Absenteeism is down and productivity is up at the two plants where the new work schedule has gone into effect. (A third plant will be converted early next year.) The economy benefits, too: With its more intensive use of machinery, IEC has added 950 workers, and product is being shipped out the door faster.
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