External trade statistics are of central importance to economic policy. Among other things, its foreign trade contribution shows how a country is positioned compared to its trade partners. But how much do official statistics really tell us ...
Reportedly ArcelorMittal is firm to suspend the closure of its plants and job cuts in Europe after negotiation with EU Commission. The EU Industry Commissioner Mr Antonio Tajani said no more job cuts in its Europe plants that employ ...
Tags: steel industry, ArcelorMittal
Luxembourg-headquartered global stainless steel producer Aperam SA, which was spun off by ArcelorMittal and separately listed in 2011, has announced that together with Italy-based Ilta Inox S.p.A. (Arvedi) and Marcegaglia S.p.A. ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has announced that The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), has adopted a Thermo Scientific iCAP Q inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) for research supporting EU ...
Tags: ICP-MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific, DTU, Nanoparticles
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's agreement with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's opposition to trade protectionism implies that she may attempt to dissuade the EU Commission from launching an anti-dumping investigation against solar products ...
The European Union (EU) Commission announced that it would refer Cyprus to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with the Landfill Directive. Six landfills accepting wastes from tLimassol and Nicosia are allegedly ...
Tags: Packaging Laws, EU Packaging Directive, packaging legislation
The shareholders of the Finnish group Ahlstrom voted in favour of the planned spin-off of its Label & Processing division's European activities and the sale of LP's Coated Specialities in Brazil at an extraordinary general meeting held on ...
Tags: Label&Processing, pulp, specialty paper
German carmaker, Mercedes-Benz, will start equipping all its new models with the pan-European eCall emergency warning system from 1 June 2012. The company said that the new B, C, E and M-Class models will use its 'COMAND-online' user ...
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The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centered on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU's ...
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The duty free quota for softwood plywood imports to the EU was exhausted on 24 July, according to the EU Commission’s Department General Taxation and Customs Union. The last volumes were subsequently allocated on 30 July. As a result, ...
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Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has announced that it has received a positive scientific opinion from the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA)that cocoa flavanols have a positive effect on human blood flow. According to the ...
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Computerworld-European Union(EU)antitrust regulators today threatened Microsoft with more fines,potentially massive ones in the billions of dollars,after the company failed to make good on its promise to offer consumers there a choice of ...
Tags: European Union, Microsoft, Browser Choice
Finland is “sceptical” of EU plans to draw up sustainability criteria for solid biomass. In a Finnish Forest Association article on forests web portal forest. Fi, Finnish forests official Heikki Granholm says the relevant issue ...
Tags: market view, EU biomass plan, timber
Bearish outlook due to sluggish American and EU economies and financial woes Despite the European debt crisis, anemic American economic recovery, and disrupted car-making and PC sector after the earthquake in Japan last March, ...
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UK corporation Revend Recycling Ltd, has launched an innovative reverse vending recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs and domestic batteries. The machine is the “FIRST” domestic light bulb ...
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