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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

The examples are Kriewald , Morgan , Oppau , Tessenderlo , and Traskwood. 240 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in sacks exploded after being hit by a shell from a nearby fire in a munitions train. On December 17, 1960, a 96-freight car train suffered partial derailment, in which the last 23 cars were derailed. Date:March 9, 2004.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. A monumental after-effect has been the subtraction of years of training knowledge from the domestic U.S. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5 Filling the Skills Gap.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

For example, a position as a welder, which may be involved in manufacturing, sounds much more lucrative as a “metal repair shop” than a “mass-production manufacturer.” In 2004, Facebook was founded, and the future of inter-connected millennials would never be the same. Role of Social Media.

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Kuehne + Nagel Ventures Forth with a New Global Initiative

Logistics Manager

Mr. Schoon himself is a walking example of the dedication that Kuehne + Nagel places on their loyal employees. After that, I sought to work abroad and was given an opportunity to work at Kuehne + Nagel’s Hong Kong office in 2004 where I began working as a customer service manager. Strong Roots. Mr. Bjoern Schoon.

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An interview with Norm Jerome: BP

AIMMS

My formal training was in Chemical Engineering with emphasis on Process Control, and for the first 10 years of my career I worked as a Process Control Engineer, initially at Eastman Kodak, and then at Amoco. Around 2004 we started a project to migrate an existing tool for planning for the BP Petrochemical Aromatics business over to AIMMS.

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An interview with Norm Jerome: BP

AIMMS

My formal training was in Chemical Engineering with emphasis on Process Control, and for the first 10 years of my career I worked as a Process Control Engineer, initially at Eastman Kodak, and then at Amoco. Around 2004 we started a project to migrate an existing tool for planning for the BP Petrochemical Aromatics business over to AIMMS.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war. The ADF will have had to expand its training capacity, logistics, and invest in new capabilities to create strategic advantages. Supplying War , 2 nd Edition, Cambridge University Press , UK, 2004, p236. [8]