The consumer version of the Hummer H3 and H3T pickup are assembled at the GM plant in Shreveport, La.

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In the northern England city of Gateshead, for example, a De La Rue PLC plant prints bank notes on behalf of several euro-zone countries, according to people familiar with the matter.

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In Corralejo, a wind farm is associated to a water desalination plant, while the University of La Laguna is developing a biofuel production project using jatropha curas seeds.

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The contractor on the project, Shaw Group, will build parts of the plant in a factory in Lake Charles, La. and send sections to the construction site by rail.

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The Gateshead facility also serves as a backup plant for the Bank of England, which has a separate contract with De La Rue to print British pounds, according to a Bank of England spokesman.

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