Chemical manufacturing, petroleum refining, pulp and paper and iron and steel manufacturing dominate industrial energy use.
Compare that to conventional steel manufacturing, where heat-treating can take hours or even days.
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Gerdau S.A . ( GGB) is a Brazilian-based steel manufacturing company.
General economic malaise keeps major burners like steel manufacturing sidelined.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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Indeed, they say high energy prices are encouraging the closure in Europe of energy-intensive plants for example, those manufacturing steel or aluminum in favor of imports from outside the region from manufacturing facilities that sometimes are less energy-efficient.
This has led to increased use of coking coal in these countries, which is used for manufacturing steel, a basic building material.
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Nanosteel Co. plans to outsource superhard steel's manufacturing and coating process.
Frick had been the man Carnegie trusted above all others to manage the affairs of Carnegie Steel, a manufacturing combine so vast that its output surpassed that of the entire British Empire.
We have a company that I know you're going to be at tomorrow that is actually manufacturing steel still in the United States, and doing a great job at it, growing their business and growing the workforce.
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Those who agitated for the steel tariffs tried to paint manufacturing's woes as their own.
In the past two days, state employees revolted against their directors, and strikes erupted in a wide breadth of sectors postal workers, electricity staff and service technicians at the Suez Canal, in factories manufacturing textiles, steel and beverages and hospitals.
Manufacturing, especially of steel and cars, accounts for over a quarter of the state's output, despite its bucolic reputation.
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These raw material inputs are used to make many processed products in a number of primary manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminum and various chemical industries.
Mr Mehdi anticipates that the Man of Steel sculpture will be ready by 2013 to coincide with a global manufacturing festival and the centenary of Harry Brearley's invention of stainless steel.
Manufacturing, including automobiles, steel, petrochemicals, computers, aircraft and consumer durables, account for 31% of GDP.
Luxembourg-based Arcelor, the world's biggest steel producer, is eager to switch manufacturing capacity from Europe to cheaper regions.
Gas accounts for 26% of Wheeling-Pittsburgh's energy usage and perhaps 15% of the manufacturing cost in its integrated steel mills.
Although advanced materials like carbon fiber weigh less than aluminum and are several times stronger than steel, they would require substantial upgrades of extant manufacturing facilities to implement.
According to a recent Greenpeace study, illegal wood charcoal is primarily used in Brazil to power smelters producing pig iron, which is used to make steel for industries including U.S. auto manufacturing.
America's steel tariffs notwithstanding, rich countries impose low barriers on manufacturing trade with each other.
Over the last ten years, China has mounted the biggest challenge to the U.S. manufacturing sector ever seen, threatening producers of steel, chemicals, glass, paper, drugs and any number of other items with prices they cannot match.
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Japanese investors are wagering that cheap energy prices could lead to a revival of the American steel and chemical industries, as well other energy-intensive manufacturing.
Bertazzon 3B is one of around 50 family firms in a manufacturing cluster in north-east Italy that leads the world in turning steel, fibreglass and electronics into roundabouts, bumper cars and other fairground thrills.
New foreign investment in manufacturing has helped offset the loss of jobs in traditional industries in shipbuilding, steel and coal in the 1980s.
Here are two lessons from the Steel Dynamics story: First, innovation is essential to the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing.
The crisis in the steel industry has been caused by the downturn in the two main markets, construction and car manufacturing.
This week, the firm's manufacturing director Ian Hobson said it will help increase production closer to its target of 5m tonnes of steel a year.
The i3's cabin will be made from just 35 carbon fibre parts, which simplifies the manufacturing a great deal when compared with similarly-sized conventional cars that would require some 500 alloy steel parts to achieve similar results.
Graphene is far stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber so it could potentially open up entirely new avenues for manufacturing, consumer products and medical devices.
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