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- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: Business Notes:Industry
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- INDUSTRY
- There Goes Another One
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> In recent years U.S. companies have conceded one homegrown
- industry after another to more aggressive and competitive
- foreign rivals. First came cameras, then televisions, tape
- recorders, stereo equipment and semiconductors. Last week
- Cincinnati Milacron, the last independent U.S. producer of
- heavy industrial robots, agreed to sell the business to a
- subsidiary of Switzerland's Asea Brown Boveri.
- </p>
- <p> Milacron is retreating from the $4 billion market after 13
- years because its share of the business has dwindled from a
- commanding 75% to just 10%, and its losses from robotics have
- been mounting since the mid-1980s. The company will concentrate
- on its traditional lines of machine tools and other industrial
- products.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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