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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 ...
Adams Resources & Energy. Aera Energy. Allis-Chalmers Energy. Aloha Petroleum. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Amalie Oil Company. American Ethane Company. Amoco. Amplify Energy.
A wood-burning stove (or wood burner or log burner in the UK) is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel, and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or steel) closed firebox, often lined by fire brick, and one or more ...
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.
Under standard conditions, it is the least dense metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly reactive and flammable, and must be stored in vacuum, inert atmosphere, or inert liquid such as purified kerosene [7] or mineral oil. It exhibits a metallic luster.