German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will modernize coiler No. 3 at the hot strip mill No. 2 of Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron & Steel (WISCO) to enable the coiler to wind hot rolled strip with a higher strength and in greater ...
Tags: High-Strength Steel, Mineral
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will modernize the slab caster No. 3 at the Duisburg-Huckingen plant of German steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM). The modernization is ...
Tags: Metals Technologies, German steel producer, slabs, steel
ArcelorMittal's Czech Republic-based subsidiary ArcelorMittal Ostrava has announced that it has completed a major investment project to modernize its manufacture of seamless pipes of small diameters and increase its production capacity for ...
Tags: Seamless Pipe Mill, seamless tubing, drill pipes, line pipes
American automaker General Motors (GM) is set to invest EUR250m in its GM Manufacturing Poland plant in Tychy for production of a new generation midsize diesel engine family. With this new investment, the company will set up additional ...
Tags: General Motors, Engine Production
The Renault-Nissan Alliance sold a record 8,266,098 vehicles in 2013, propelled by record sales in the car group’s two largest markets, China and the United States. Renault-Nissan's 2013 calendar-year sales, which include sales of ...
Tags: Renault-Nissan, Auto Parts
The United States is safer if it works with countries to fight infectious diseases because nations are connected by food and drinking water, officials say. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said ...
Tags: prevent disease, health security
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
The Healthy People 2020 initiative recently held a public webinar to update stakeholders on progress toward food safety objectives. Addressing the goals to reduce infections from pathogens commonly transmitted through food, Roberta ...
In Tieshiya village, farming is mostly left to the over 60's as about a third of its population have gone to work in towns or cities. Villager Zhou Douquan is worried, very worried. "Farmers make little profits from their land. Most ...
The Government of India has set a target of modernizing 2.3 million powerlooms in the next few years, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao said after inaugurating a powerloom modernization project at Sircilla in Karimnagar district of Andhra ...
Tags: Indian Govt, Powerlooms
A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle sent a letter last week to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to move forward with a proposal to modernize the department's poultry ...
Tags: poultry inspection system, USDA
Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (“Sun Capital”), a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, announced the sale by an affiliate of its investment in Frontier ...
Tags: Frontier Spinning, Sun Capital
Naturepedic co-founder Barry Cik is among the founders of a new coalition formed to press Congress to modernize the nation's chemical safety laws. The coalition,Companies for Safer Chemicals,will make a business argument for strong ...
Senator Chris Coons announces Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative. A new congressional report released Dec. 17, 2013, found that after a decade of devastating declines, the American manufacturing sector is recovering—and now ...
Officials at GlaxoSmithKline in England said the company will no longer tie bonuses to sales targets and will phase out paying doctors to speak at conferences. In a statement, the drug manufacturer said it is changing its global sales and ...