To test his steel process, Mr. Cola worked with Dr. Suresh Babu at Ohio State University, who specializes in refining steel applications.
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In May 2003, the company gobbled up Bethlehem Steel, in the process more than doubling its size.
The process creates steel four times stronger than what was used previously.
Yet the car's body is 25% stiffer than its predecessor because key parts of the frame--like the center post that supports the car body during side collisions and the roof side rail that connects the sides of the roof--are made of ultra-high-strength steel created through a process called hot stamping.
Continuous casting is a process whereby molten steel is passed continuously through a mould, like play-dough, allowing high quality products to be manufactured at greater lengths than traditional casting.
Nanosteel Co. plans to outsource superhard steel's manufacturing and coating process.
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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The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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The group at Ohio State is currently expanding its research scope into the steel to develop new applications and improvements to the process.
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Mine engineers decided to encase just the top part of the shaft with steel tubing to prevent rockfalls and further collapses during the extraction process.
Icahn has participated in campaigns for the better part of three decades, investing in companies from U.S. Steel to Netflix, and earning billions of dollars in the process.
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But even dire straits have not kept steel firms in other parts of the world from obstructing the long-overdue process of consolidation.
Recently, the world's steel mills have been running at close to full capacity but getting there was a painful process, including bankruptcies, closures and huge job losses.
The other process, still in use, is to cut a window in an old well's steel casing and then drill horizontally into the oil zone.
Sirius proposes to process the ore at a site at Wilton, near Middlesbrough, and plans to transport it via a steel pipeline buried a minimum of 3ft 11in (1.2 m) below ground.
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