Since 2002, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in Japan has been manufacturing 150-metre rails, said to be the longest made in the world. To export the rails to customers overseas, they had to be cut to lengths of 25 or 50 metres. The firm recently devised and built a system by which rails as long as 150
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