The Crewe-based business is to be managed by investment firm Sullivan Street Partners, and employs over 100 staff, producing printed cartons, leaflets and labels. The transaction was an undisclosed fee. Medica has a strong heritage of ...
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The decline in cotton price and slowing demand for apparel and other textile products in key North American and European markets have put tremendous pressure on synthetic pricing in the past several months. The global synthetic fiber price ...
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Packaging services provider Packaging Coordinators (PCI) has acquired pharmaceutical services provider Biotec for an undisclosed amount. Headquartered in Wales, Biotec is a provider of clinical trials and temperature controlled ...
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it is about to invest more than $70 million in the construction of a pulverized coal injection (PCI) system at its blast furnace No. 9, ...
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The Powder Coating Institute's (PCI) upcoming Powder Coating Show will focus solely on an environmentally friendly coating technology that has steadily grown in production and consumption over the last five years. "In North America alone, ...
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A new study by the consultancy provider showed Europe’s flexible packaging market was down from 2.1% by value and 1.8% by volume in 2012. Declining demand in a number of national markets, principally France and Italy, and the ...
The Powder Coating Institute (PCI) has announced its official establishment of an Educational Fund which is designated for the sole purpose of soliciting, recommending and approving scholarship awards to students who are pursuing studies in ...
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Evraz ZSMK, a Siberian steel division of steel and mining group Evraz, has announced that has launched a pulverised coal injection unit for two of its blast furnaces. The unit's productive capacity amounts to 160 mt of pulverised coal fuel ...
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Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has announced its production and sales data for the second quarter of the current year. According to the company statement, NLMK's crude steel output in the second quarter decreased to 3.774 ...
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According to its financial results according to US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) for the second quarter and the first half of 2014, Russian steelmaker NLMK registered a net profit of $158 million in the second quarter, ...
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SSPC recently announced the approval of STMCOATECH as an authorized licensee for the SSPC Protective Coatings Inspector Program (PCI) in Turkey. Established in 2013, STMCOATECH is comprised of a team of highly experienced paint inspectors ...
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The expected growth in global steel demand through 2050 may require a tripling of current seaborne metallurgical coal exports, which may be tough for miners to deliver, according to forecasts delivered Monday by two consultants. An annual ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK Group has announced? that it has started hot testing the second pulverized coal injection (PCI) unit in its blast furnace operations at the main production site in Lipetsk (Novolipetsk). The company has started ...
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US-based coal producer Walter Energy, Inc. has announced that it will begin idling its Canadian operations, including the Wolverine and Brazion coal mines in British Columbia, this month, due to the unfavorable coal pricing environment. ...
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Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it will replace the blast furnace oil injection system at its Raahe steel plant with a new pulverized coal injection (PCI) system to improve steelmaking cost efficiency by reducing raw ...
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