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...engine will be reassembled. After it's passed strict tests to ensure it meets standards, the "remanufactured" engine will spend another four to five years in service before it's ready for another makeover. Thanks to remanufacturing, its life could total 45 years. Welcome to Caterpillar's Remanufacturing Services plant in Shrewsbury, England, where dead vehicle parts are resurrected...
...three-year-old plant in England's West Midlands was Cat's first European facility. Each month, it processes 15,000 worn-out, grime-encrusted engines and parts. Caterpillar has moved beyond remanufacturing just its own diesel engines and components; 40% of the automotive, truck, rail and marine motors and parts remanufactured in Shrewsbury were originally built by other companies. Fisher calls reman a "nicely profitable business." How profitable? Cat does not break out the figures, but Fisher says the returns are "above average," and Nasr notes that profit margins for some reman goods are double those of new products...
...practitioners also relish the challenge of giving clapped-out parts new leases on life. "It's all about taking back old stuff in mass quantities and doing something with it," Fisher says. That waste-not ethic is evident on the shop floor of the Shrewsbury complex. Tim Baker, the plant's operations manager, says employees get excited about coming up with new ways to salvage. "Our people are very passionate about not throwing things away," says Baker. "It's like tossing away money." And you don't become the industry's fat Cat doing foolish things like that...
...border with Israel. Now he regularly enrolls for refresher training courses in the Bekaa. The training camps are hidden in remote wooded areas, with no permanent structures to give away their presence to Israeli jets and drones overhead. The fighters are taught how to strip, handle and shoot weapons, plant roadside bombs, navigate using a compass or stars, conduct surveillance and stage ambushes. They conclude with written and practical exams. Salem says he hopes soon to enlist in Hizballah's special-forces unit. "We're getting ready for another war with Israel," he says. "We feel it's coming...
...footprint in any given show usually comes from the audience traveling to the concert, and though Live Earth promised to offset those emissions, it wasn't yet clear how - not to mention that offsets are inherently dicey. The Tokyo show drew much of its electricity from an existing solar plant on the grid, but that meant that Tokyo homes and businesses normally supplied by solar would have needed to supplement their power from dirtier sources. That's a net loss for the environment. Many rock stars who sat out Live Earth felt the same way. "We're using enough power...