Supermarket Morrisons has agreed a partnership with the online distribution business Ocado – including the acquisition of its distribution centre – in a deal that will see deliveries to customers start by January 2014. ...
The latest figures issued by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) show that in April this year European Union (EU) new car registrations grew for the first time on year-on-year basis since September 2011, rising by 1.7 ...
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Enterprise IT cloud company, ServiceNow, has developed ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning, a new orchestration application that enables IT to automate the entire cloud management lifecycle. From self-service cloud selection to automated, ...
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ClickSoftware Technologies, a provider of automated mobile workforce management and optimization solutions, has teamed up with NetSuite, a provider of cloud-based financials/ERP software suites, to build the ClickSoftware SuiteApp. Built ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) decreased ...
Tags: EU-27 Construction, Mineral
The pressures placed by European Union (EU) climate policies on the European steel industry to reach ever more ambitious CO2 reduction targets and the absence of technologies to achieve such targets were among the issues discussed during ...
Tags: European Steel, Mineral
Ken Springham, former founder and managing director of Inka Presswood Pallets, has died at the age of 77. Springham started his packaging career in the quality control laboratory of Thames Board Mills in the early sixties. In the late ...
Tags: Inka Presswood Pallets, Packaging
Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 5.6 million tons in April, a decrease of 9 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers' Association. However, loadings were 11 percent ahead of the month's five-year ...
Tags: Great Lakes, Iron Ore Shipments
India's Vishakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) will seek a partner to invest $155 million to build a new iron ore handling facility and upgrade the existing one under the public-private-partnership (PPP) model, an official from India's Ministry of ...
In March this year, the Italian seasonally adjusted construction output index again decreased by 4.1 percent month on month following the 4.1 percent month-on-month decline observed in February, as announced by Istat, Italy's national ...
Tags: Construction Output, Mineral
In March this year, Japan's seasonally adjusted industrial production increased 0.9 percent over the previous month, while the original index indicated a decrease of 6.7 percent compared to the same month last year. The country's seasonally ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Mineral
According to a report released by Latin American steel association Alacero, imports of steel products including long and flat products and seamless tubes to Latin America from China totaled 952,000 metric tons in the first quarter of this ...
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In its financial results according to US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) for the first quarter of 2013, Russian steelmaker NLMK Group's net profit decreased by 78 percent compared to the first quarter of the previous year to ...
In March this year, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 687,050 long tons (698,075 mt), increasing 20 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and up 24.6 percent compared to February, according to Peru's Energy and ...
Tags: Iron Ore Production, Mineral
Izhora Pipe Mill, a subsidiary of Russian steel producer Severstal, which specializes in large diameter pipe production using strip produced by CherMK (Severstal Russian Steel), has announced that it has shipped pipes for the construction ...
Tags: Izhora Pipe Mill, Gas Pipeline