Reuters reported that London copper slipped retreating from a three week high in the previous session, as concerns resurfaced over fiscal troubles in the United States but signs of an economic revival in top consumer China cushioned prices. ...
Tags: copper, copper price, fiscal cliff
RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok reported that Russian tycoons Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin may reportedly put an end to a 4 year long conflict over control of Norilsk Nickel by the year end. Key shareholders of the world's largest ...
Tags: Norilsk Nickel, nickel, palladium, Oleg Deripaska
Times of India reported that mocking the French Government for asking ArcelorMittal to leave France, London Mayor Mr Boris Johnson on Tuesday said "Sans-culottes (working class militants) appear to have captured Paris." The London Mayor ...
Tags: French Minister, Arcelormittal, steel tower
Environment Minister Corrado Clini said Tuesday that the government was ready to take on prosecutors in order to keep the troubled ILVA steel plant in the southern city of Taranto open. ILVA said Monday's court order for the seizure of ...
Tags: ILVA, steel plant, tumours, respiratory diseases
Acciaierie di Calvisano, belonging to the Feralpi Group of Italy, commissioned Siemens Metals Technologies with the modernization of the billet caster in the Calvisano works in Italy. The aim of the project is to further improve the ...
Tags: Siemens, Feralpi Group, billet caster
Saint Petersburg hosted today celebrations devoted to commissioning of a new CCGT-450 combined cycle gas turbine unitat the Pravoberezhnaya CHPP. Taking part in the events were Alexey Miller chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee,Mr ...
The glass and metal packaging manufacturer has launched RinGo, which is claimed to be 20% lighter that the standard pack. In addition, Ardagh said that the user can drain the whole content. A necked in top, as opposed to the straight wall ...
Tags: Metal Can, glass packaging, metal packaging, standard pack
Elmwood was tasked with creating an emotional connection with consumers and the new packs include the strapline ‘At the heart of your home’. In addition, the packaging incorporates the “sensory moments we all savour such ...
Speaking at the Pro2Pac exhibition, Mintel International innovations and insight director David Jago told Packaging News: “Sustainability as an issue has not gone away and if you look at the tracking data that we have got, consumers ...
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Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/30/2012 7:06:00 AM By Candace Choi, Associated Press Ducking into a dollar store to pick up some a soda and bag of cookies might save you time and effort, but will you ...
Tags: package, packaging, Dollar General Corp, family life
London copper rose near a one month high early after lenders secured an aid deal for Greece boosting the euro and building on confidence about global demand for the metal sparked by signs of an economic revival in top consumer China. ...
Tags: copper, copper price, IMF, Greek Debt Deal
Exxon Mobil USA has allowed the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic to expand business in Switzerland to 160 petroleum stations launched by mid 2013. The first petroleum station of SOCAR in Switzerland was launched in Zurich in ...
Tags: Socar, State Oil Company, petroleum station
The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per cent of GDP is spent on IT, and that's much ...
Tags: cloud, GDP, IT, G-Cloud store
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute, in September this year Turkey's ferroalloy imports rose 1.9% compared to the previous month and were up 6.8% compared to September 2011 totaling 37,416 tonnes. The value ...
Tags: ferroalloy, ferroalloy import, mineral
AGI reported that trade unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm announced flash strikes on Monday evening following ILVA management's decision to halt its cold forming facilities. Unions described ILVA's decision as "a reprisal" targeting workers. ...