For 23 years, Timken Co. campaigned for U.S. tariffs on bearings from Asia. Now it's rushing to open factories there to make parts for Chinese wind farms.
Timken will produce main-shaft bearings, some big enough to drive a car through, for windmills at a factory the Canton, Ohio-based company just opened in Xiangtan in east central China. The plant is Timken's eighth in Asia. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.