Coffee historians believe most of the world's Arabica coffee crop shares genetic ancestry with two 18th century plants: one brought to Europe from Indonesia, and another taken from Yemen and cultivated in Brazil.
Drastic actions were necessary in order to confront slumping sales, and management hopes to find more ways to cost cuts as they are currently in talks with labor at two key plants in its home state of Wisconsin.
DigiTimes says Sharp itself uses 70% of the output of the two plants, with Sony and Philips using the rest.
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Bill Ford adopted a back-to-basics strategy that included cutting 21, 000 jobs and idling a handful of factories, though he later cut a deal with union leaders to give two plants a reprieve.
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The facility itself consists of two capture plants fitted with more than 4, 000 instruments to monitor what is going on, and with a total capacity of 80, 000 tonnes of carbon a year.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
And on Monday it announced the closure of two more plants in Texas, with the loss of nearly 1, 700 jobs.
The UAE and Kuwait each have five plants, followed by Libya with two, and one each in Qatar and Oman.
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Unlike America, where no two nuclear plants are exactly alike, France stuck with a few standard designs.
British Energy operates all but two of Britain's nuclear plants, and with those due to close by 2010 it will soon have a monopoly.
Currently, Brazil has two nuclear power plants operating in Rio de Janeiro, with a third under construction.
The Japanese company will push ahead with plans to build two to three 1, 300 megawatt nuclear power plants at both Wylfa and Oldbury.
The two big plants are scheduled to close by then, with Cockenzie in East Lothian closing in 2015, with a planned conversion to new gas turbines, while Longannet in Fife is licensed to keep operating until around 2020.
It had a parrot-like beak with two stabbing canines at the front and tall teeth tucked behind for slicing plants.
If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.
In Chicago, for example, two aging coal plants shut down after Mayor Rahm Emanuel threatened them with an ordinance requiring they clean up emissions.
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That's true even in Afghanistan, where a series of dams and hydroelectric plants built with American support in the 1950s and 1960s have survived two decades of almost constant warfare.
That means that power plants have to burn two-times the wood as they do with coal.
Last year Djojohadikusumo's Batu Perkasa Hitam won a contract to build and operate, with Japan's Mitsui and America's General Electric, two 600-megawatt power plants in Paiton in eastern Java.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
Ford will do the same refitting job to two other North American truck plants in a multibillion-dollar gamble that America's love affair with the SUV is over and that smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles are here to stay.
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