Investing--whether in startups or in existing businesses, or in securities, or in plant and equipment or acquisitions--is risky enough.
It also is in motherboards in computers, cellphones and solar panels, and some joints in appliances and power-plant equipment.
Within months Smith had set up a 1, 000-person plant in Yanzhou filled with equipment from his defunct machine shop and others.
Enterprises are being pressed to change over from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas and methane, and to be more energy-efficient by modernizing their plant equipment in the switch.
In addition, stolen plant equipment, such as a mini road-roller and a mini excavator, were recovered, along with a stolen quad bike.
The firm has amended its plans after a public consultation, altering the size, colour and equipment to be used in the plant on the one-acre (0.4 hectare) site.
Panda then bought some old metal-stamping equipment from a plant that General Motors was shutting down in Ohio.
Evolution has arranged financing for methane-capture equipment in Argentina and for a switch by a 120-megawatt power plant in Hungary from coal to biomass fuel.
But in Lanarkshire, the plant has been re-opened as BioCity, attracting much smaller companies to use the equipment and facilities that Merck left behind.
Pinching pennies at the initial 136-megawatt gas-fired plant outside Lahore, Ahmed uses as much secondhand equipment as he can, bought in the U.S. and refurbished.
Investment in plant, equipment and other capital assets is growing at rates not seen since the runaway years of 1993-94.
ECONOMIST: The Chinese fear inflation; the Japanese long for it
Much of the equipment Komatsu sells in China is manufactured at its U.S. plant in Peoria, Illinois--two miles away from Cat's headquarters.
For businesses still reeling from the speed at which the late-1990s boom turned to bust, the political climate is one more reason to put off investing in new plant and equipment or hiring new staff.
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