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In 1991, the company formed a partnership with Samancor Ltd. to buy Middelburg Steel & Alloys Ltd.
1991: The company initiates the creation of the Columbus Joint Venture and acquisition of Middelburg Steel & Alloys in a move to enter the stainless steel market.
In 1993, Highveld and Samancor sold a combined one-third share of Columbus to the South African government's Industrial Development Corporation.
1996: The new Columbus stainless steel plant begins production.
Instead, Highveld formed a European trade subsidiary, Hochvanadium Holding AG in Austria in 1998.
Columbus also quickly became an important source of revenues for Highveld, accounting for some one-third of the company's sales by 2001.
2001: A joint venture is formed with Japan's Nippon Denko.
Further studies conducted by Hu et al. (2010) showed that VO-γ-PGA improves some markers of renal and hepatic damage in diabetic rats compared to VOSO4.
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