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...years in Europe with Armco Steel Corp., silver-haired, silver-tongued Robert A. Solborg, 57, has learned to speak eleven foreign languages. Last week Solborg signed three contracts that made good reading in any language. The biggest deal called for Armco to supervise construction and operation of Italy's first continuous strip rolling mill, at the Cornigliano steel plant near Genoa. The mill, which will cost $87 million, will be financed by ECA (32%) and the Italian government, and is one of the first joint attempts by ECA and U.S. private enterprise to help Europe's steel industry...
...Solborg also signed up Armco to install a continuous strip process in the Fiat auto plant at Turin, and to help with a $4,300,000 modernization of a sheet steel mill at Terni, 34% financed by ECA funds. Said Solborg: "This is the sort of thing ECA should have been doing from its very beginning. The only way to impart American know-how to European industry is through people who do it best-American business and industry...
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