Mr Raw-Rees insisted at the time there had been no cross-contamination at the cutting plant and said he felt he had been "picked on".

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It started cutting operations at the plant after Google acquired Motorola in 2011.

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That means Japan is prepared to spend a lot of time, energy and money cutting up the contaminated plant and cleansing the site, so that people feel safe moving back near it.

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On Monday Llanelli-based car parts plant Calsonic Kansei announced it was cutting 60 jobs, blaming the global economic downturn.

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Cost-cutting efforts, including the closure of one plant, are under way.

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The cost cutting involves those 10, 000 job losses, two shuttered research sites and one manufacturing plant.

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But zinc fingers, because of their precision, could give Dow a significant leg up by cutting a year or two off the six to eight years it now takes to develop a modified plant and get it past regulators.

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