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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57261)	11/1/2009 3:34:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220446

Brazil carving countries up as they return to natural size: Refinery in Japan. Shipyard in Rio. Meat packers in the US, Breweries everywhere. Refinery in Japan Petrobras bought 87.5% of Nansei Sekiyu KK, the operating company of the 100,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Japan's southwestern Okinawa island, in April 2008, and said at that time it would invest about Y100 billion to enable it to process Brazilian heavy crude to supply oil products to Asia. Shipyard in Rio Petrobras has turned to the long-dormant domestic ship building industry to fill the order, leading to a rebirth in the sector. Brazil was among the world's largest ship-producing countries in the 1980s before a global downturn in the industry saw the local docks shuttered Meat packers Buying spree JBS has been in a buying mood for several years. The South American giant bought the third-largest U.S. meatpacker, Swift, in 2007, which was also the largest beef processor in Australia. Swift headquarters are in Greeley, Colo. A Swift meat packing plant is located in Grand Island. And in 2008, JBS bought the fifth-largest U.S. beefpacker, Smithfield Beef, as well as the feedlot operations, Five Rivers. Five Rivers has 10 feedyards with a one-time capacity to feed 820,000 head of cattle in eight states. That equates to nearly 2 million head of cattle fattened each year, according to industry standards.