Today, Ericsson released the first edition of its Networked Society MENA City Index at the Networked Society Forum in Dubai, UAE. The report analyzes the levels of ICT-driven benefits created in 11 of the Middle East and North Africa ...
Tags: Ericsson, Consumer Electronics
The Chinese economy would maintain its sustained and healthy growth and China would stay on the path of reform and opening up, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang wrote in an article published in the Financial Times Monday. Under the headline ...
Tags: Economy, Healthy Growth
The leaders of the world's leading gas exporting nations are due to meet in Moscow Monday for the second summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the future of the gas market amid uncertainties over the supply and demand ...
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The comments were made in a meeting that several delegates described as unique because it deals with a single commodity, and does so by looking at trade, development and other aspects. Although the official focus is primarily on ...
Tags: Cotton Producers, Textile
Euratex held its General Assembly the 29th May in Brussels in presence of industrialists, Textile and Clothing (T&C) experts and EU officials under the theme “Textile and Clothing Industry in a changing economic environment”. ...
Tags: Euratex, Economic Environment
Last night, the lighting designers behind 10 projects in nine different countries, were announced as winners of the 30th Annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards. Described by the IALD as "the most diverse group of projects in ...
Tags: Lighting, lighting designers
State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) signed a joint venture agreement Sunday with France's Total and Japan's Idemitsu, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni and Mitsui for a new condensate refinery to be built in Qatar at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Under the ...
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Last night, the 11th annual Lighting Design Awards took place at the London Hilton, Park Lane. More than 740 of the country's leading lighting designers, manufacturers and architects gathered to celebrate another successful year in the ...
Tags: Lighting Design, Lighting, LED
At the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Gianpiero Repole, commercial director of Liberty Group assessed the current situation in long steel markets and shared his opinions regarding the ...
Tags: steel, minerals, steel industry
Answering SteelOrbis' questions during the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Michael Setterdahl evaluated the new tendencies in steel trading. CELSA International Commercial Director Kim ...
Tags: Long Steel Demand, Mineral, Metallurgy
The Gulf Insurance Federation has approved a preliminary draft to launch a single motor insurance policy in the GCC region, which is expected to be introduced before the end of 2013. The technical committee of the federation head Mohamed ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2013 Spring Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting taking place in Doha on March 3-5, Juma Al Mansouri from Emirates Steel said that the UAE is seeking to transform its oil-dependent economy by spending billions of ...
Tags: oil, Oil Dependent, Oil Economy
In the last session of the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, suppliers and producers of long steel products and billet, as well as traders and raw material suppliers shared the conclusions ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, Yusuf Guven from Helveco Intertrade, the chairman of the raw materials committee, said that China has started destocking steel products, ...
Tags: raw materials, Scrap, Steel
During the last session of the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held in Doha, Uur Dalbeler, chairman of IREPAS and of the billet suppliers' committee, stated that in 2012 iron ore prices brought great pressure to bear ...
Tags: billet, Scrap Prices, steel