M.Sc. / South Africa is a country richly-endowed with natural resources, including huge deposits of chromium and iron ore. Escom, the country's electricity utility, has access to huge amounts of spare generating capacity, which can be exploited to produce value-added products such as stainless steel (Columbus Stainless) and aluminium (Alusaf). These factors, together with the government's stated aim of increasing levels of beneficiation in South Africa, and the needs and requirements of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), mean that the country will embark on other major beneficiation projects in the future ...

This thesis seeks to understand the causal factors of deindustrialization in the steel industry during the late twentieth century and uses the former Atlantic Steel Company mill in Atlanta, Georgia as a case study. Using company records and secondary sources from a variety of social science disciplines, I explore the roles of neoliberalism, government foreign and domestic policies, and the world economic crisis of 1973 to reassess contemporary understanding of the concept of deindustrialization.

As a whole the steel industry in Taiwan has become relatively mature from a highly growing industry in the past till facing slow down in demand recently. Its growing rate has been decreasing gradually. During the past two years, the growth was decreasing following the saturation of the domestic market. On the other hand, the Mainland China has a strong demand on steel due to its rapid economic development, and has become an important export market for the steel industry in Taiwan. The strong demand from the rapid growing China market can absorb the extra production capacity of the downstream steel industry in Taiwan which is facing a bottleneck in the domestic market. The present study is aimed to research the following issues: 1. Strategy and competitiveness of steel industry in Taiwan; and 2. Taiwan steel companies¡¦ investment in China. The main conclusion obtained I the present study includes: 1. Shareholders structure of steel companies in Taiwan has affected decision making for investment in China. 2. The domestic market for steel in Taiwan has been saturated. 3. China is an opportunity for Taiwan steel industry. 4.Taiwan steel industry invested a lot and built steel mills in China, mostly during 2002 and 2003.

Thesis--M.A., University of Hong Kong. / Typewritten.

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Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 503-518.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr college. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 83-86.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1935. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 328-346).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 26 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26).