On Monday, the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) announced that David H. Hannah, chairman and chief executive officer of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., has been elected chairman of the board for the MSCI effective July 1. He was ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter, New World Resources registered a net loss of €80 million, compared to a net profit of ...
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Xylem Inc has secured a US$2.9 million contract from the Beijing Drainage Group (BDG) to install Flygt pumps in 19 pumping stations in downtown Beijing, China. The new Flygt submersible centrifugal sewage pumps will improve the ...
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There are some very specific problems that need to be overcome when dealing with produced waters from offshore oil and gas production. In the first of a series of three articles, oil industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment ...
The American Midwest is often thought of as the land of rolling plains, family values and, in recent years, shrinking economies. However, one industry stands to help the heartland get back on its feet: the construction industry. The ...
Simple energy saving methods can save you thousands of dollars a year. It is estimated that there would be increase in electric costs in future. For most of us, energy saving is not a priority until they start feeling the pinch on our ...
Water pumps have a number of applications. They can be used for residential, industrial and commercial use, depending upon the features possessed by them. But, the functions of all these pumps remain the same. They all are used to transport ...
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In the January-April period of the current year, Kazakhstan produced 1.062 million mt of crude steel, down 22 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan. Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in the ...
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November’s Tokyo motor show will reportedly host the unveiling of at least one half of the mid-sized sports car collaboration between Toyota and BMW. US publication Motor Trend reports a concept of the new sports car – most ...
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With skyrises and concrete constructions becoming common, as a fillip to the infrastructure industry, the tools and equipments are needed to be technologically advanced. Although, in earlier times, people had indigenous methods of carrying ...
Recloseable packaging and microwaveable plastic trays were named top packaging breakthroughs that most impacted peoples’ lives over the last 25 years in an on-line survey hosted by DuPont. Together the two categories of invention ...
The Internet Of Things. The last time I remember hearing that phrase, Mariah Carey had the best-selling CD. Heck, people were still buying CD’s. It was all part of the demand-driven supply chain. The idea was that every pallet, case ...
In terms of the global economy, the alarm bells have stopped ringing. According to Cliff Waldman, senior economist for the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), that’s one of the key takeaways from the U.S. ...
Eric Schrag (left) and Kelly Merrell both spent time at Google I/O getting accustomed to wearing and using Google Glass eyewear. Computerworld - A software engineer for Comcast got his early version of Google Glass last weekend, grabbed ...
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The tangram is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette) using all seven pieces, ...
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