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...Denver native, he entered engineering because of his interest in the workings of the paper mill where his father worked...
Abernathy says he chose engineering because, growing up in Denver, his father managed a paper mill. The future professor became fascinated with the workings of the mill's complicated machines, and he never looked back...
...world. The two huge Voest-Alpine furnaces could produce up to 2.8 million tons of high- grade carbon steel annually. But soon after Kaiser built the plant (at a cost of $287 million), the company encountered new environmental regulations and rapidly rising union wages that made the mill noncompetitive with overseas producers. Within five years Kaiser shut the plant down. For a decade the BOP shop came to life only occasionally as a movie set -- in 1990, for example, the finale of Arnold Schwarzenegger's apocalyptic Terminator II was filmed here...
...China could build a new steel mill like this one," says Wang Shengli, who is overseeing the project. "We bought this one because we can have it operating sooner than if we built our own." The mill will be put up in the southern Guangxi region; the cost of dismantling, moving and reconstructing it will be at least $400 million...
...Fontana mill is the largest plant bought in the U.S. and taken home by the Chinese, but it is hardly the only one. In North Carolina the Chinese picked up a secondhand nuclear-plant control room, in Pennsylvania they purchased a used microchip-making facility, and in Michigan they bought an auto-engine assembly line. If China's economy keeps going along as it has been, the steel, microchips and engines made in these newly exported plants may ironically come back to America one day -- as imports...