The company manufacturers the production of highway construction materials, synthetic fuels, and environmental control machinery.

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The damage-control machinery goes into action.

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These workers control, operate or maintain machinery to generate electric power keeping your home or business juiced.

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By being able to operate the machinery via remote control, the only staff needed are maintenance and cleaning crews, he said.

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More recently, measures from the Chinese government to control rising real estate prices will further suppress sales of construction equipment and machinery in the country, and thereby impact Caterpillar.

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Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is the industry term for the computers behind the machinery in power plants, water treatment centres, traffic controls and other utilities.

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The other main joint venture, Ford-led Ecostar, takes the machinery from Stuttgart and fits it into electric motors, transmission and control equipment to make a fuel-cell engine that can turn the wheels of a car or a bus.

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