Mr Birla says it would have been very hard to imagine buying Novelis five years ago.

贝拉先生说，换作五年前，他们决不敢想像收购像诺夫·利斯这样的大公司。

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“In the next three years we'll be long on aluminium,” said Mr Birla. “And this aluminium needs to go somewhere to get value added.”

“如果我们单纯生产铝的话，三年就够了，”贝拉先生说，“我们必须要把这种原材料送到某个地方去加工，提高它的价值。”

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Each approach may turn out to have its own applications, says Birla, and the ability to conduct side-by-side comparisons is important.

Birla认为，每种方法将最终都有其应用范围，互相比较研究成果的能力是重要的。

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Birla shipped out Indian experts in risk management and lopped off 10% of the workforce.

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