Under a previous policy, Fiat had encouraged many of its principal suppliers to set up plants in Minas Gerais, close to Betim.
After Brazil agreed to recognise their patents, in 1996, many foreign drug firms set up manufacturing plants.
But those companies are struggling to set up power plants quickly amid shortages of coal and natural gas and long delays in acquiring land.
Leeds struck out on his own in 1995, ditching a steady paycheck as a planning manager for printermaker Lexmark and opening a consulting shop in Guangzhou, China to help American companies set up manufacturing plants there.
So ChemStation set up several small reconstitution plants, says George Homan, its president.
Later, as Olam moved up the value chain, Verghese set up his own processing plants in India, Vietnam and Brazil, ultimately taking the full cycle of cashew production back to Nigeria as well.
The Horizon joint venture was set up in 2009 to build new nuclear plants to replace the 40-year old Magnox reactors at Wylfa and Oldbury.
Their modular hydroponic system -- where plants sit in a soil-free set up with nutrients delivered through irrigation channels -- can be retrofitted to just about any wall.
Power plants were privatised and a competitive internal electricity market was set up.
Earlier in the week, Corus warned that it was set to close more plants in the UK, with the loss of up to 3, 000 jobs.
Chongqing Holley, a sister company of Kunming's, has set up a research laboratory in Hunan to help it identify high-yielding plants and establish a seed bank.
Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.
This is set up to refine heavier (and sourer) crudes and it would make sense for plants that have had so much money spent on them to use the input they are designed for.
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