Despite the apparent severity of the early, and not easily interpreted, statistical data, 2013 seems to be ending positively for Italy's manufacturers of hollow glass; and the forecast for 2014 is also quite rosy. Confirmation comes from ...
Tags: Hollow Glass, Construction Glass
Gulfsands Petroleum plc ("Gulfsands", the "Group" or the "Company" - AIM: GPX), the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia and the U.S.A. provides the following ...
The mood among consumers in Germany is again remarkably good as 2013 draws to a close. Further increases were recorded in economic expectations and willingness to buy. Income expectations declined slightly from a high level. Following a ...
Tags: upswing, consumer climate, economy
The U.S. economy expanded at a 4.1% annual rate in the third quarter, the strongest since the final three months of 2011 and up from an estimate of 3.6%, the Commerce Department said Dec. 20. Economists' forecasts for gross domestic ...
Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) has announced that on December 19 it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hunan Province-based Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology ...
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The Russian Ministry of Agriculture recently held a meeting in order to discuss the prospects of development of cotton production in the country, especially in the Astrakhan, Stavropol and Kalmykia regions of Russia. According to a ...
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Earlier this month, Dick Cheney stated that the medical device tax may have killed him if it were in effect in the decades he struggled against heart disease. The former vice president received a heart transplant in 2012. Cheney is ...
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Top 15 bedding producers generally see modest gains for the industry next year,one that would keep bedding on a growth track. Another growth year would be welcome,but the ride could be a bit rocky.Some producers see a year of ups and ...
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Blaine Sullivan, Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Choice International, said the company is extremely pleased with the re-opening of its Fortune facility today. It was about one year ago that the Company and the Provincial Government ...
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Oticon Medical, a manufacturer of bone anchored hearing systems, has obtained 510(k) approval the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Ponto Plus bone anchored sound processors in regular version (down to a hearing loss of ...
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Michael Lippert, of Saft Energy Storage Systems, explains how the SmartRegion Pellworm project will enable an island off the North Sea coast of Germany to increase self-consumption of its own renewable energy Pellworm Island presents a ...
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The chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) predicts that the construction industry will add as many as 300,000 new jobs next year to decisively rebound from a recession that had crippled it. This could mean ...
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Gaia, the European Space Agency's long-awaited space observatory, is set to launch on Thursday from the agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The €700 million mission is designed to pin down the three-dimensional positions and ...
Tags: Gaia, space observatory, space telescope, astrometry, stellar distances
The Indonesian textile industry growth prospects are estimated to remain sluggish during the 2014 year, owing to the planned increase in electricity power next year, said Benny Soestrisno, chairman of the advisory board of the Indonesian ...
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Bowie Resource Partners LLC, a joint venture between Bowie Resources, LLC and the Galena Private Equity Resource Fund managed by Galena Asset Management, has today completed the purchase of Canyon Fuel Company LLC from Arch Coal, Inc. for ...
Tags: BRP, Canyon Fuel Mines, joint venture, coal producing