Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has received $1.3m in Australian government funding as part of the Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment program. The funds will be used to install PET bottle self-manufacture or 'blow-fill' technology. The ...
Rural residents in North America may soon get a shot at better cellular coverage with an open-source technology being used in Antarctica, Mexico and Papua, Indonesia. Range Networks, which says its technology slashes the cost of networks ...
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Singapore agribusiness giant Wilmar International has formed a joint venture with peer Noble Group to produce palm oil and its by-products in Indonesia. The companies said Wilmar's subsidiary Newbloom will hold a 53.74% equity stake in ...
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Following over two decades since it entered the Indonesian market, Endress+Hauser has strengthened its position since its long-time sales partner in Jakarta joined the Group on January 1st as an independent Endress+Hauser company. ...
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ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea LNG plant is on schedule to start up and ship its first LNG in 2014, Peter Botten, Managing Director of minority project shareholder Oil Search, said at a conference Thursday. The 6.9 million mt/year, ...
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NICKEL is on track to end 2012 as the worst performing base metal and 2013 doesn't look much better. In fact, the only hope for existing nickel producers is that some of the emerging operations strike technical problems in their ...
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BP signed a heads of agreement Wednesday with Indonesia's state-owned power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara to supply 23.96 million mt of LNG over 20 years, starting 2013, Jero Wacik, the energy and mines minister who is also the head of ...
The Government of Indonesia wants the country to become net exporter of petrochemical goods by 2016 from its current status of net importer, and hence it is developing two new upstream petrochemical centres. Muara Enim in South ...
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India is already building a rare-earth mineral processing plant in the east coast state of Orissa and will invest $135 million in a new exploration ship and the refurbishing of another vessel to mine minerals under its oceans. Only last ...
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China has officially rejected a request by the US, Europe and Japan to have a special panel of the World Trade Organization arbitrate a dispute over the country's controversial policy of restricting exports of rare earths. China mines ...
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Reuters reported that a dispute between Papua New Guinea and Canada's Nautilus Minerals threatens to sink plans to mine gold and other metals for the first time from the ocean floor. It could also work against efforts by the South Pacific ...
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A surge in mining activity and online retail sales in south east Queensland has prompted TNT Express to open a new freight facility in Brisbane’s north. The 5,000 m2 depot features a fully automated parcel sortation system ...
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Reuters reported that production at Ramu nickel cobalt project in Papua New Guinea, China’s single-largest mining investment in the country, will reach its full capacity in one or two years, slightly later than initially planned, an ...
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Frontier Resources has been awarded two exploration licences on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea that are prospective for copper and gold. The two licences cover a total of 2,780 square kilometers and are mostly unexplored though the ...
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Quintessential Resources has completed its AUD 1.77 million raising to accelerate exploration of its Bismarck copper and gold project in Papua New Guinea. The company will start a 1,000 meter diamond drilling program at the Irak Prospect ...
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