Alcoa to Buy Cordant Technologies.Alcoa, Inc., Pittsburgh, reportedly the world's largest aluminum company, has agreed to buy aerospace industry supplier Cordant Technologies, in a $2.9 billion deal, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Reuters, Ltd. Cordant is composed of three market-leading business groups that employ 17,000 workers at 58 facilities in the U.S., Canada, France, the U.K. and Japan that generate $2.5 billion in annual revenues. The groups are: Howmet Castings Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Howmet, a division of Alcoa is a world leader in the investment casting of superalloys, aluminum and titanium primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine (IGT) engine components. , a supplier of aluminum, super-alloy and titanium components used in jet aircraft and in electrical power generation; Huck huck n. Huckaback. Noun 1. huck - toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric huckaback toweling, towelling - any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels Fasteners; and Thiokol Propulsion, a supplier of solid rocket propulsion Rocket propulsion The process of imparting a force to a flying vehicle, such as a missile or a spacecraft, by the momentum of ejected matter. This matter, called propellant, is stored in the vehicle and ejected at high velocity. systems for space launch vehicles. |
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