India is targeting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 8-9 per cent in the coming years and to enable this growth, the economy needs the support of its power sector and India's electrical equipment industry is expected to play a ...
Smartphones and tablets continue to sell well but growth is slowing in mature markets such as Australia as developing countries look to get in on the mobile device boom. That's according to Steve Koenig, director of industry analysis at the ...
Tags: Smartphone, Smartphone Volume, Sales Prices
Global demand for naphtha will expand faster than any other light products through 2020, spurred by rising needs of the petrochemical industry in Asia, as per the latest report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). ...
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Greif, Inc., a global industrial packaging products and services company, today announced the company will work with Habitat for Humanity International to distribute 100,000 PackH2O collapsible water backpacks in eight developing countries ...
Tags: Transportable Drinking Water Packaging, Packaging, Printing
World oil demand will rise by 1.1% this year to 90.26 million barrels a day, with gains coming from countries outside of the major industrialized nations, a U.S. government forecast said Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration said ...
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Hopping onto the shale gas bandwagon is high on the agenda for just about everyone. The U.S., which has led the way in developing hydraulic fracturing technology, and in sheer scale of shale exploration, has transformed itself from one of ...
Tags: Chemicals
Growing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) or nosocomial infections are expected to drive the antibacterial glass market in the coming years. Traditional techniques of decontamination such as washing hands at periodic intervals are ...
Tags: Antibacterial Glass, Glass, Construction
SHABEER Jhetam is a passionate advocate of recycling. The CEO of The Glass Recycling Company talks to Margaret Harris about reducing our carbon footprint and creating jobs What does your job involve? Take me through your typical work day, ...
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Growth in worldwide demand for packaging machinery is expected to climb at a 4.6% annual pace through 2017 to $41.8 billion, according to a new study by The Freedonia Group. The study analyzes the currently $33.4 billion world packaging ...
Growth in worldwide demand for packaging machinery is expected to climb at a 4.6 percent annual pace through 2017 to $41.8 billion. An improved business climate-which will be reflected in expanding fixed investment spending, manufacturing ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Machinery
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $1.15m funding to a global public-private partnership (PPP), to develop a new pediatric formulation to fight schistosomiasis, commonly known as bilharzia, in preschool children. Formed in ...
Tags: Schistosomiasis Drug, Medicine
A Canadian IT consultancy has announced that it will soon begin selling an Ubuntu laptop that “never needs to be plugged in,” thanks to solar power. The SOL, as WeWi Telecommunications dubs the device, is designed to be used in ...
Tags: Laptop, Solar-Powered
Mitsubishi Australia has decided to kill off and not replace the Mitsubishi Express Van, leaving its line-up without a van for the first time in more than 30 years. The affordable load hauler, introduced in 1980 as both a cargo hauler and ...
According to the International Energy Agency’s ‘2011 World Energy Outlook’, every day, as the sun sets around the world, 1.3 billion people without electricity either live in darkness or expose their families to the ...
Tags: Ascent Solar, CIGS, Electrical&Electronics
Iran’s proposal for forming a joint petrochemical forum by eight developing Muslim nations (D8) has won support from Turkey and Egypt, two leading petrochemical and engineering polymer producers of the Middle East, Iranian Deputy Oil ...
Tags: D8 Petrochem Forum, Textile