The small Kansas town of Fredonia is bracing for the loss of its Lafarge cement plant, which is set to close next month. The plant opened in 1907 and has operated 24 hours a day ever since. Citizens say they re worried about literal losses, ...
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MISSOULA- A new study performed by the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research shows that 2011 wasn't a very good year for the forest products industry in the Treasure State. The industry saw a big drop during the ...
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KSA s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has halted the export of cement and clinker as it attempts to help the Kingdom’s production industry meet growing local demand, a spokesman said on Monday. Cement factories have already been ...
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KUCHING: Malaysia is coming up with a “constructed” price for plywood in the wake of its manufacturers being penalised by South Korean authorities on charges of dumping their panel products. This proposed price is being worked ...
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News that Western Forest Products plans to invest $16 million into its Saltair sawmill is seen as a hopeful trend for the future of the forest company's other mills in the region. Lee Doney, a WFP spokesman, said that thanks to the ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Let's hear now from the South Australian academic who is proposing a radical rethink of building construction in Australia in order to reduce the country's carbon footprint. Professor Steffen Lehmann proposes that instead of ...
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One of the fastest growing market segments in the concrete flooring arena is sealers for decorative and polished concrete surfaces. There is a need in this market for a more durable, longer lasting product said Bayer MaterialScience LLC, ...
New recyclable and lightweight wood fibre products with lower raw material and production costs could be possible as a result of foam-forming technology developed in Finland. VTT Technical Research Centre, which is setting up a pilot-scale ...
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Jaypee Cement s Rs 2, 500-crore cement plant near Jaggayyapeta in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, will commence production next month. The plant, with a cement production capacity of five million tonnes a year, will cater mainly to ...
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Whether a concerned parent, employee, or owner of a daycare center, Biometric Door Access has been known to solve many worries. Security is a top concern for all parents when deciding on which day care facility to send their children to. ...
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With the inauguration of Dangote s $1b Ibese cement plant by President Goodluck Jonathan in Ogun State, indications are now rife that the Nigerian government may soon place a ban on cement, fertilizer, rice soon. Jonathan during the ...
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A growing surplus has arisen in supply on Germany’s sawmill residues markets during the course of December and at the beginning of the new year. This development initially led to sometimes marked cuts in prices for sawdust in some ...
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FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately ?6 million (DKK 640 million) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply a greenfield cement plant. The plant will be located some 330 km from the capital city ...
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Today's class of "green" coatings depend on light stabilizers to protect against UV degradation. By Yung-Chi Yang, Steven Lee and Dr. Yao-Hsing Huang, Everlight Chemical Industrial Corporation High solids, powder, waterborne and UV curable ...
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Turkey s Sabanci cement group expects 2012 turnover of two billion lira ($1.14 billion) for the whole group, the cement group s chairman said late on Monday. The turnover of the Sabanci cement group, parent company of cement makers Cimsa ...
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