There's a huge new distribution center for the National Retailer Children's Place, two new metal tube manufacturers, a high-tech label maker.

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Or that Steve Cohen and Jim Simons, who flirted with the yellow metal, decided to bet on insurers and tech firms, while David Tepper and Carl Icahn placed their newest bets in tech and energy.

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Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.

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Originally designed for an automotive parts manufacturer, Plex Online is being adopted by aerospace and defense, food and beverage, high tech and electronics, industrial machinery, and precision metal manufacturers.

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It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.

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Two teams have already begun crunching metal in the preliminary trials that have been going on this past week: Georgia Tech's vehicle collided with both a concrete barrier and an obstacle car in qualifiers.

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