Aluminum could reduce the weight of cars dramatically because it weighs roughly half as much as steel.
Energy-guzzling heavy industries, such as steel and cement, bore the brunt of China's downturn late last year.
Orders dropped for metals such as steel and aluminum, metal parts, electrical equipment and appliances, and defense aircraft.
It feeds through a stylus that is "as hard as steel, " says Mark Seetin of the U.S. Apple Association.
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This is a sensitive issue in America, especially for products such as steel.
The fund is also heavily weighted towards the steel industry (27.4%) which should drive returns as steel prices trend upwards.
Investors in South Korea ditched shares in technology companies, as well as cyclical plays such as steel companies and shipbuilders.
But workers can also see what has happened to such highly unionized industries as steel, autos, airlines and many others.
And when you throw in carbon leakage in other industries as well as steel, the economics must tip further in the same direction.
Brazil fumes (and rightly so) over anti-dumping and other punitive duties on its most competitive exports, including shoes and orange juice as well as steel.
He pictured his fingers as steel hooks, himself as a dancer.
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This, in turn, reduced the demand for materials such as steel.
She said that linking Dusseldorf and Cardiff was a "reasonable match", and that both regions shared similar industrial histories in areas such as steel and coal.
Even as steel companies in Europe, Asia and Latin America have joined up, American firms have remained stubbornly apart, resulting in excess capacity and scale inefficiencies.
Architects such as Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, making use of such innovations as steel, lifts and electricity, soon developed the skyscraper.
Young and long-time collaborators such as steel guitarist Ben Keith blast out lots of noise in the manner of other underrated Neil Young albums, like 1974s On The Beach.
Already, even with American unemployment at record post-war lows and the economy steaming ahead, industries such as steel and memory chips have resorted to anti-dumping suits to protect themselves against imports.
Paul Cavey, an economist at Macquarie Securities, argues that the discrepancy is explained by the fact that energy-guzzling heavy industries, such as steel and aluminium, bore the brunt of the slowdown last year.
About a third of the highway construction jobs would be directly linked to the construction sites -- including on-site workers like Baxter, and off-site workers who manufacture construction materials such as steel and concrete.
And the strength, lightness, high melting point and ability to resist corrosion of titanium make it an ideal material for building aircraft parts, supercars and medical implants but it can cost 50 times as much as steel.
But in a consultation paper published alongside the Bill, Mr Davey said energy-intensive industries, such as steel and cement producers, would be exempt from additional costs arising from measures to encourage investment in new low-carbon production.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
Mr Bush's advisers seem to be calculating that, just as steel tariffs may help him to win West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2004, so signing the farm bill may win him votes in the prairie belt.
Traditional industries such as steel and chemical makers are opposed to any action because they are afraid it will create a precedent for what they see as interference with free market dynamics that will only add costs to their balance sheets.
Last year, China produced eleven times as much steel as America (880 million tons versus 81 million).
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In 1967, the steelworks were nationalised to become the British Steel Corporation, later privatised as British Steel, which in 1999 merged with Dutch company Hoogevens to become Corus.
Perhaps the most wounding moment in today's exchanges came when the views of his predecessor Lord Steel (the artist formerly known as David Steel) were quoted against him.
There is as much steel hidden in the roof of the aquatics center as there is proudly displayed in the main stadium, but when it finally sheds its wings, Ms. Hadid's design will have undeniable visual power.
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