The turbines passed a G59 test last week, which looks at safety standards required for the connection of a generating plant to existing distribution systems.

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It is unclear what happened to the other nine employees who were seized from a Pepsi-Cola bottling and distribution plant in Zafaraniya, a suburb southeast of Baghdad.

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Britain's Pilkington announced a restructuring that will destroy 6, 000 jobs in its underperforming European operations, 16% of the glass maker's global workforce, and result in the closure of some 60 processing and distribution operations, including a big German plant.

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Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to meet the electricity and heating needs of one of its distribution centres.

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Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state. (The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit.) Bronco owns an efficient modern plant and has its own distribution network, so it can deliver wine directly to Trader Joe's warehouses, which keeps costs down.

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