Steel-making is still strong in Sheffield, even though it employs far fewer people than it used to.
Cleveland, Robson said, was keen to enlarge the company and continue to expand it to produce steel-making raw materials.
He was born about the time the town was beginning to decline as a centre of shipbuilding and steel-making.
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The best way to help exports, say analysts, is to speed up privatisation and to restructure state industries, such as mining and steel-making.
The old heavy steel-making plant at Llanwern closed with the loss of 1, 300 jobs in July 2001, although there is still a finishing mill there.
The new furnace was opened in January 2003 - a development which was seen as a sign of the firm's commitment to steel-making at the site.
Mr Conway believes that with Teesside's steel-making and engineering expertise there is no better place to make a pier and he hopes to persuade local businesses to help.
Labour is now clearly identified as the establishment, but turned out to be powerless when Corus, a British-Dutch steel firm, announced in February it was getting rid of 3, 000 Welsh steel-making jobs.
The steel lobby claims foreign competition is killing the industry, but that is simply not true: American steel-making capacity is no lower now than it was when President Ford was contemplating sanctions.
Xie Qihua, the president of Baosteel, saw her company's profitability drastically reduced in the mid-1990s when the government forced her to absorb four rival loss-making steel producers.
It is the first commercial jet built mostly from carbon-plastic fibres rather than conventional aluminium and steel, making it more lightweight, and therefore, fuel-efficient.
The dramatic ceiling vaults to impressive 43-feet at the center, providing an arched steel truss over a 150- by 234-foot cement floor making it an ideal venue for rehearsals as well.
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For example, Soviet pipeline builders have routinely cut corners by using lower-grade steel and shallow burial of lines, making pipes particularly vulnerable to corrosion and repeated, catastrophic accidents.
Companies making heavy stuff like steel in huge, labor-intensive factories dominated U.S. industry.
Perhaps Ross' most famous move was orchestrating the ascension of his International Steel Group (nyse: ISG - news - people ), which became one of the largest U.S. steel producers by acquiring money-losing mills out of bankruptcy and making them more efficient.
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Steel and oil prices have skyrocketed, making those 5, 000-pound sport utilities that used to coin money for Ford more costly to make and more costly to operate.
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In the mid-1970s Ford concluded that its business was making cars, not steel.
In the mid-1970s Ford determined that its business was making cars, not steel.
Ross made International Steel Group into one of the largest U.S. steel producers by acquiring embattled mills out of bankruptcy and whipping them into efficient money-making machines.
And, given consumer demand, more builders are making some upscale features things like granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances standard, even in lower-priced homes.
Congress has passed an airline-safety bill, making all baggage screeners federal employees and requiring airlines to put steel doors on cockpits.
"We recognized a few years back that the key to meeting these incredible fuel-efficiency targets--and keeping cars fun to drive and making them affordable--is great, lightweight, low-cost, structurally sound steel, which we weren't able to get from the handful of steel suppliers in the industry who supply other automakers, " said Krafcik.
It'll mean making deep changes to old industries like Wuhan Iron and Steel, reforming China's giant state-owned enterprises.
Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.
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