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ProfessorGAC

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55. Those Sorts Of Things...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:52 PM
17 hrs ago

...are why, over my career, my company expanded by over 20 sites, but 80% of those were acquiring plants from smaller companies looking to sell.
All the studies were long done, and the infrastructure was already in place. Plus, they paid the depreciated value (plus goodwill) of long term assets like reactors and buildings.
Good thing us, our company followed Responsible Care assiduously and ran companies in foreign sites as if they were in the US.
The regulatory regimes of those countries, though more relaxed, didn't matter. We ran all EHS functions like the site was here in Illinois or in California. They may have been in some "shithole countries" but my company didn't run them that way. Highly responsible & enlightened management.
I've been in some awful chemical plants. Our 40 something were not among them.

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General Electric was one of the first multi-national corporations to do it FakeNoose Yesterday #40
GE was the inspiration for my post. Dr. T 23 hrs ago #41
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All the CHIPS Act investments are at risk for the same reason Bluetus 17 hrs ago #52
"Of course, Trump wants these companies to come to him and give his a few million bucks" BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #53
If we can retake the House at the midterms Bluetus 16 hrs ago #57
Five Years Is Optimistic ProfessorGAC 19 hrs ago #45
And that might be with skipping "enviornmental impact" studies BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #47
Good Point ProfessorGAC 18 hrs ago #48
I hadn't seen any mention of impact studies BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #49
Those Sorts Of Things... ProfessorGAC 17 hrs ago #55
"Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy." regnaD kciN 17 hrs ago #54
Right! "Life sucks and then you die. Get over it." - John "Fake Home-spun Yokel" Kennedy (R-LA) Bristlecone 17 hrs ago #56
Something else we need to consider here jmowreader 16 hrs ago #58
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