IC Insights’ new 250-page Mid-Year Update to the 2013 McClean Report, which is slated to be released by the end of July, describes why a very clear distinction should be made between the IC market (i.e., consumption) in China and IC ...
Tags: IC Companies, IC Production
Calgary, Alberta-based TransCanada said Thursday that it will move forward with the 1.1 million barrel per day (bbl/d) Energy East Pipeline project based on binding, long-term contracts received from producers and refiners. The conclusion ...
Tags: Crude Oil Pipeline, Mineral
German automobile manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus has secured an order to deliver 440 trucks to multiple customers in Saudi Arabia. The company will deliver 240 MAN TGS type trucks to the food producer Almarai in the region that will be used ...
Tags: Vehicle Supply, automobile
Contract packaging company Tech Packaging has announced plans to invest more than 12.4m in a bid to expand and equip its facility in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US. Recently, the company purchased 32 acres of land in the Humboldt ...
Sydney-based AGL Energy Ltd (Australia's largest private owner and operator of renewable energy assets) has achieved financial close for two utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects for which cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
Tags: Solar Power, Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has signed an agreement with Public Service Company ...
Tags: Solar Power Plants, Electrical
Belarus and China have reached an agreement to implement a joint venture to construct a soda ash plant, Belarus' Architecture and Construction Minister Anatoly Nichkasov told media on 19 July, BelTA has learnt. According to the Minister, ...
Tags: Soda Ash Plant, Soda Ash
Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Concrete pavers are not the most glamorous building material, but they are much, much less expensive than stone. Advances in paver manufacturing have yielded concrete pavers that look remarkably like stone. When carefully set, concrete ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Concrete Pavers
Orthopaedic company Wright Medical Group has introduced the Ortholoc 3Di ankle fusion system with six unique plate designs and five screw options in the US. The new system with Wright's new 3Di Polyaxial locking technology offers implant ...
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved an intergovernmental agreement that will see Russian gas giant Gazprom acquire 100% of Kyrgyzstan's debt-ridden national gas operator, Kyrgyzgas, for $1, according to a statement late ...
Tags: gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
US-based Medtronic has introduced its CD Horizon Solera Spinal System Sagittal Adjusting Screw (SAS), which could be used in the surgical correction of complex spinal conditions. The SAS system is the company's fifth-generation spinal ...
Tags: Medtronic, Spinal Conditions
Austrian environmental engineering contractor, BT-Wolfgang Binder, has completed construction of a new recycling facility for that will turn waste glass into foam glass ballast for Netherlands based GEOCELL. Foam glass ballast (foam ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
PPG Glass eVIEW is a multifunctional suite of Web-based tools that enables architects, glazing contractors, glass fabricators and other building professionals to search, construct, view and compare virtual glazing configurations in three ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass, coating
In today's world, dirty windows might be the only thing that brings attention to paned glass. Yet back in the late 1800s, the business of making plate glass brought some much deserved interest — and an economic boost — to the ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration