Outokumpu Oy said pretax profit more than doubled in the first eight months of the year as higher sales of stainless steel, its chief product, offset a loss in its base metals unit.
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The company said " significant improvement " at its 46 percent-owned titanium metals unit, Timet, was due to growing demand for the metal in the aerospace industry and prices that averaged 18 percent above year-ago levels.
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Simon Thompson, the chief executive of Anglo-American's base metals unit, said that without additional financing, Konkola Copper Mines PLC, the subsidiary of Zambia Copper that runs the mines, will be out of business within a year.
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Allegheny Teledyne Inc . said it's in talks to acquire the aerospace metals unit of closely held Sheffield Forgemasters Group Ltd . in an effort to capitalize on the growing demand for metals used in aircraft.
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If WHX succeeds in buying Teledyne, Kane said, it could keep Teledyne's specialty metals unit, sell the other businesses to raise cash and use Teledyne's $ 854.1 million pension-fund surplus to fund retirement obligations of its own.
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The acknowledgment by the metals unit of Korea's LG Group followed a plunge in the company's shares and an earlier surge in the price of copper for immediate delivery, both tied to speculation about huge trading losses.
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Some have been made from enamelled steel ( a German trend ) and the modern bare metal units have moved to stainless steel alloys to prevent aluminium from leaching into the juice at the time of preparation.
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The expandable tactical shelter was a rigid paneled metal unit that could be unfolded to become an enclosed air conditioned shelter for use as an operating room, central material services, pharmacy, laboratory, blood bank, radiology, or biomedical maintenance.
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If WHX succeeds in buying Teledyne, Kane said, it could keep Teledyne's specialty metals unit, sell the other businesses to raise cash and use Teledyne's $ 854 . 1 million pension-fund surplus to fund retirement obligations of its own.
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Cleveland-based Sinter Metals Inc . shares rose 1 5 / 8 to 23 3 / 8 after it agreed to buy Maag Holding AG's U . S . and European precision pressed powder metal units for about $ 215 million.
