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Alcoa. Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for " Aluminum Company of America ") is a Pittsburgh -based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. [ 2][ 3] Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina combined, through its active and ...
Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that operated from 1901 to 1969, initially specializing in the production of locomotives but later diversifying and fabricating at various times diesel generators, automobiles, steel, tanks, munitions, oil-production equipment, as well as heat exchangers for nuclear power plants.
New York Life Insurance Company: Insurance 58,445 14.2% 15,050 New York City, New York: 74 Enterprise Products: Petroleum industry 58,186 42.6% 7,300 Houston, Texas: 75 AbbVie: Pharmaceutical industry 58,054 3.3% 50,000 Lake Bluff, Illinois: 76 Plains All American Pipeline: Petroleum industry 57,342 36.3% 4,100 Houston, Texas: 77 Dow Chemical ...
The "casthouse" at the bottom half of the furnace contains the bustle [clarification needed] pipe, water cooled copper tuyeres and the equipment for casting the liquid iron and slag. Once a "taphole" is drilled through the refractory clay plug, liquid iron and slag flow down a trough through a "skimmer" opening, separating the iron and slag.
Purchased by Standard Oil in 1889, the company was originally founded in 1887 by a conglomeration of smaller Ohio oil producers. After the breakup, the company grew by purchasing the Transcontinental Oil Company in 1930. Not long after, the company created the brand name Marathon, renaming itself to Marathon Oil in 1962.
A textile wick drops down into the oil, and is lit at the end, burning the oil as it is drawn up the wick. Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Starting in 1780, the Argand lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form.
Adams Resources & Energy. Aera Energy. Allis-Chalmers Energy. Aloha Petroleum. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Amalie Oil Company. American Ethane Company. Amoco. Amplify Energy.