Construction cranes are shown perched on top of One World Trade Center on June 25.The steel skeleton of the skyscraper has been completed and the next step is adding the glass'skin.''/Associated Press file photo NEW YORK—The steel ...
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The Africa Middle East Investment Forum is a timely event that aims to show case investment opportunities in Africa and Middle East as a practical and significant stride towards opening new markets that will encourage investment and trade ...
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Problem: Project managers pondered the best way to protect a one hundred plus year old, three storied heritage aged care building. Two factors were considered. Firstly, the furnishing, fabrics, carpets and artwork needed to be preserved ...
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CentroSolar Glas GmbH & Co. KG has developed a particularly thin solar glass for photovoltaic (PV) modules. With solar glass that is only 2.3 millimetres (mm) or 2.6mm thick, CentroSolar Glas has transferred into series production this ...
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The sawmill Holzindustrie Lenzing will be terminating production of soft-wood lumber, planed products, finger-jointed structural timber, and solid wooden boards at the facility in Upper Austria. Lumber production is to end on 30 September ...
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According to the latest survey conducted by the National Board of Forestry prices in the second quarter of 2012 for all roundwood ranges in Sweden showed average year-on-year decline of 9%. The price prevailing nationwide for sawable ranges ...
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Latvian sawmill Sia Vika Wood is stopping production for a period of five weeks as from 29 August 2012, in order to conclude construction work on the existing sawmill. At the beginning of October production is to be relaunched in the ...
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Global Investment House (GIH) has said cement companies in Oman, which were hurt by huge inflows of cheap cement from UAE, are now recovering as the neighbouring country s firms divert exports to other regional markets and demand picks up ...
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Shree Cement, one of the largest producers of cement in north India, has put its Karnataka plant on the backburner, following land acquisition problems at the site. The proposed plant, which would have been the first outside North India, ...
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TANGA Cement has posted a net profit of 15bn/- for the first half of the year, an increase of 56 per cent from 9.9bn/- in the corresponding period last year. The cement firm that trades on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange as Simba has ...
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The Saudi stock market declined 0.07 percent on its first trading day of the week. The Tadawul All-Share Index (TASI) started positively and reached the day s highest level of 7, 179.49 points in early trading, but then declined and closed ...
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Glass manufacturer Beatson Clark has invested £5.4 million to rebuild and upgrade the white flint furnace at its Rotherham plant. The furnace can produce around 200 tonnes of molten glass a day and improved design will cut carbon ...
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Exports of Finnish softwood lumber and planed goods in May 2012 showed year-on-year decline of roughly 7% to 588, 000 m³. According to Finnish Forest Industries deliveries to other European countries were also down by roughly 7% to ...
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"I believe the short-term prospects for the industry appear bearish. Regardless, over the medium to long term, the sector offers good growth potential, " Kumar Mangalam Birla said in a statement released after the company s annual ...
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NOIDA,U.P,India,Republic of August 31,2012--The demand for cement is correlated with the country's economic growth,since the industry's main growth drivers including housing,commercial,and infrastructure investments are the key components ...
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