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AISCO Wins Order From West German Firm 

The Arab Iron and Steel Company (AISC0), which operates a $300mn iron pellet plant in Bahrain, has won an order for 65,000 tons of iron pellets from the West German steel-making firm Klockner-Werke AG, according to a statement on 27 May by an AISCO official. AISCO'S 4mn t/year plant was temporarily shut down early in May because of technical problems, a lack of orders, and the accumulation of some 250,000 tons of its output in...