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Another example of the company's plans is its midwest Gallatin plant, where it is putting in a new hot band galvanizing line in early 2019 and expanding its hot band capacity in 2021. The first project will mean Nucor owns the widest hot rolled galvanizing line in North America. That gives the steel giant a chance to expand into new, higher-margin automotive segments that it couldn't address before. The second project will nearly double its hot band capacity at the plant, but that will support the company's efforts to expand into new, higher-margin market niches, including auto, energy pipe & tube, agriculture, and heavy equipment.   

CG Watch, a biannual newsletter, has named Singapore as the best market in Asia in terms of corporate governance standards this year. The country has scored 67 points, beating Hong Kong by two points. In the previous list of CG Watch, Singapore has only scored 64 points, placing behind Hong Kong.

Rives and his firm have also been involved in two other lawsuits in recent years. Rives & Associates was sued in 2014 by PCTEL Inc., after PCTEL noticed accounting irregularities in the pre-acquisition audit and other documents regarding their purchase of Lexington-based TelWorx Communications LLC. The firm and Rives himself are also involved in ongoing litigation which originated on 2012 regarding disputes with former partners in the firm.

17 – The Indiana Pacers hired Kelly Krauskopf as assistant general manager, making her the first woman in NBA history to hold the position. Krauskopf has spent the last 19 seasons as the Indiana Fever’s top executive and oversaw the Pacers NBA 2K League team in the last year.

4 – The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario launched a legal challenge against the provincial government’s decision to repeal a modernized sexual-education curriculum and return to a curriculum introduced in 1998.

^This.  But how do you discover that info without knowing someone on the inside?  Skuttlebutting it would work, but I don't have those kind of resources.  

While many times overlooked, the engineering team will also be responsible for establishing more routine design elements, such as the following:

Ternium SA, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and processes various steel products in Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. It operates in two segments, Steel and Mining. The Steel segment offers steel products, including slabs, billets and round bars, hot-rolled coils and sheets, bars and stirrups, wire rods, cold-rolled coils and sheets, tin plates, hot dipped galvanized and electrogalvanized sheets and pre-painted sheets, steel pipes and tubular products, beams, and roll formed products, as well as other products, such as pig iron.

Absolute Software Corporation develops, markets, and supports endpoint management and data security solutions for endpoint computing devices in Canada, the United States, and internationally. Its software-as-a-service solutions enable customers to secure endpoints, assess risk, and respond to security threats. The company offers the Absolute platform, which provides reporting and analytic, geotechnology, risk assessment and response, custom query and remediation, application persistence, data awareness, and endpoint investigation to manage and secure endpoints. It also provides endpoint security and IT asset management, risk and compliance, and general data protection regulation solutions. The company markets its products and services through device original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and value added resellers, as well as directly to corporations, government entities, educational institutions, financial services, healthcare sectors, and consumers. Absolute Software Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Angela Merkel was the first to signal a willingness to lower EU (or at least German) tariffs on cars from the U.S. and perhaps she used her enormous influence to arm Mr. Junckers with that offering.  Yet US car sales in Europe are hardly a make-or-break for US manufacturers from US plants;  they are not big sellers. US plants today tend to sell SUVs and pick-ups.  Outside the US, pick-ups are typically made by Toyota.  SUVs consume too much gasoline for the typical Euro driver, as gas can run to eight bucks a gallon (ouch!). 

4 – The NHL’s board of governors unanimously approved a franchise for Seattle. The league’s 32nd team was to hit the ice in the 2021-22 season and play in the Pacific Division. The ownership group was led by billionaire David Bonderman and several others, including Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer.