However, the Ruhr-Zink and Duisburg refineries 'are suffering from depressed zinc and lead prices and will turn round as economies recover'.
Bearded academics and white-collar workers who once would have graced SPD gatherings were present en masse at a recent Green Party gathering in industrial Duisburg.
Thyssen Stahl, based in Duisburg, West Germany, is a steel producer.
"Ballistics experts believe that one of the rifles found in the car is the same one used in the July 13 attack on the British army barracks in Duisburg and in the May 1 shooting of a British soldier in the Netherlands," Prechtel said.
Budd is a subsidiary of Thyssen AG of Duisburg, West Germany.
Further stagings this season in Hanover, Duisburg and Berne may well reveal a less severe dimension to this worthy, uncontroversial modern opera.
He works for the Deutsche Oper, based in the West German cities of Duesseldorf and Duisburg.
As previously reported, Mannesmann and two other German steelmakers have announced plans to merge some steelmaking facilities in Duisburg, West Germany, to reduce overcapacity and cut costs.