Caterpillar announced 9 new plants or expansion projects in the U.S. over the past 12 months.
If anything, the corporate sector is already too conservative on capital expansion projects.
All three of its world-renowned museums the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk recently completed multiyear renovation and expansion projects.
Theoretically, China could become a net importer of aluminum, even though 10 fully committed, verified expansion projects are coming in the next 18 months, Vazquez said.
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For example, Drevna noted that expansion projects at the nation's existing refineries have had the effect of adding the equivalent of a brand new refinery every year.
That leaves plenty of headroom for expansion as Beijing promotes road projects and other infrastructure spending to bolster economic growth.
He has proposed cutting billions of euros from the European Commission's proposed expansion of its favoured infrastructure projects and much smaller cuts - designed for their symbolic as much as their financial value - to the costs of the Brussels administration.
Much like the over-expansion of government-led infrastructure projects, KFC China will experience diminishing returns if it continues to expand into areas with lower spending power.
In terms of mining investment, while the cancellation or delay of Olympic Dam mine expansion by BHP Billiton indicates that projects under consideration have probably peaked, this does not mean that the mining investment boom is over.
Miranda ranks high among Venezuelan states in agricultural and pastoral production, and government irrigation projects have resulted in the expansion of its large-scale farming and in the diversification of its agriculture.
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He has not invested in White Space projects that could continue the massive expansion started during the Welch era.
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These include the expansion of existing facilities as well as certain green field projects, leveraging the massive amount of mineral resources the company controls.
Turkey's energy minister said the government wants to suspend some projects with Italy's Eni to help discourage an expansion of energy investments in disputed waters off Cyprus.
"We have engaged in talks with BandSports and others regarding television programming and various other projects that we can carry on together as part of our expansion in Brazil, " Mr. Martinez said.
And initially when community groups started to form health care projects in the late 1930s, they really saw this as an expansion of the Social Security Act that it passed in 1935.
Potential threats include continuing legal challenges such as a land dispute court case in Michigan that Meister said increases the likelihood of other legal challenges to gambling projects and state regulations that restrict Indian casinos and limit expansion.
"There is a tremendous amount of expansion, " said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, speaking of projects at existing facilities.
So it is strange that agriculture should now lie at the heart of two big global projects of the next year or so: the Doha round of trade talks and the eastward expansion of the European Union.
Oversee and coordinate the programme and staff of the Special Projects Unit to ensure proper management of all ongoing programmes and projects, the development of a portfolio of new initiatives, maintenance of relations with existing donors, and expansion of the donor support base.
Longer term limitations also depend upon whether pipeline projects that are located exclusively in Canada proceed (such as the proposed Northern Gateway, the Trans Mountain expansion, and the TransCanada proposal to ship crude oil east to Ontario on a converted natural gas pipeline).
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