For example, in the ethanol business, it is almost inconceivable that there is any investment in plant or equipment whose return matches that from the political investment that has provided the industry a combination of direct subsidies, mandated use, and protection from foreign competitors.
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Investment in plant, equipment and other capital assets is growing at rates not seen since the runaway years of 1993-94.
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And long-term foreign direct investment in plant and machinery, much of it linked to privatisation, is playing a more important role.
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.
The investment includes expanding the plant's furnaces and installing new machinery.
Following the announcement about the Japan deal, Aggreko said it was further boosting its investment in a new plant, for assembly at its Dumbarton factory where 300 people work.
Recently, after Boeing had completed a multi-billion dollar investment in a new plant and was about to open the doors to thousands of new jobs, the National Labor Relations Board attempted to prevent it from opening.
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Omar Abbosh, of Accenture, a consultancy, says that carbon trading as practised in the EU and contemplated in America does not give enough certainty about future carbon prices to justify an investment in a CCS plant.
Panasonic just completed a 1 billion rupees investment in a new manufacturing plant in Haryana.
If the investment is realized, the plant will be the first of its kind in the Americas.
The company said the investment would boost output from the specialist plant in Cambuslang by up to 50%.
Under current market conditions and uncertainties an investment in CCS technology for a power plant seems to be unprofitable and will therefore be postponed indefinitely.
The company said that it made the decision reluctantly, but added that the plant was a very old facility and substantial levels of investment would be required if production was to be maintained in the long-term.
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On their own, the opening of this new solar plant or the installation of new smart meters or the investment in grid modernization will not be enough to meet the challenges posed by our dependence on fossil fuels.
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And therefore, although the gross investment made may be tens of millions for this plant, the net capital addition is much less.
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The lawsuit related to the DeLorean automobile plant in Northern Ireland in which HMG had made a large investment, naively hoping that the economic activity would be good for the province, only to find that DeLorean had stolen millions of dollars from the project to fund a personal investment in a ski grooming company in Utah.
But Holliday says the investment is more akin to developing software than building a new chemical plant.
Motorola say the investment will create 700 jobs, safeguard another 650 at a nearby plant, and make Dunfermline their biggest semiconductor factory in Europe.
Of the Japanese producers, only Honda has for the moment made a big investment inside Mercosur's walls, though Toyota has a small plant making pick-ups, and is building another small one to make Corolla cars.
The investment by Toyota in Kentucky comes on the heels of its newest assembly plant, in Blue Springs, Mississippi, outside Tupelo.
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GATT, which dealt with trade in goods, but also took on new agreements on services, investment, intellectual property, technical barriers to trade, sanitary measures and plant health.
Skilled workers and political stability have attracted foreign investment, such as an Intel silicon-chip factory (the only plant of its kind in Latin America), and a pharmaceutical plant.
Although part of China's growth has been fueled by foreign direct investment, it is internal capital that has driven a surge in property, infrastructure and plant capacity.
Corus said the investment would reduce C02 emissions by reusing gas generated inside the Basic Oxygen Steel (BOS) plant.
"You can't just plant trees, walk away and let them grow, " says Tom Johnson, a managing director at Timberland Investment Resources, an Atlanta TIMO.
Mr Jones assured him that the investment itself secured the future of Port Talbot and that the company was developing a produced range for the plant.
The money from the investment was to install new equipment and improve technology at the facility, which is the largest pig processing plant on the island of Ireland.
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