Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN ...
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A global campaign designed to help retailers and consumers cut down on food waste has been launched by the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation and civil society partners. The 'Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint' campaign, ...
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Franklin Electric marked the commercial launch of its artificial lift pumping solutions with significant orders from key global customers. Exxaro, a South Africa-based mining group which provided several test sites for the product, has ...
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Exxaro, a South Africa-based mining group which provided several test sites for the product, has placed an inaugural order for seven complete pumping systems for its Botswana Coal project, while a strategic customer in the northwestern ...
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Amazon.com launched a free online tool that will help schools and businesses centrally control and distribute content on Kindle devices to their students and staff, it said Wednesday. The new service, called Whispercast for Kindle, can ...
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SES has announced that its 51st SES spacecraft is in orbit after successful ILS Proton launch, providing fresh satellite capacity in multiple frequency bands to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. BETZDORF, LUXEMBOURG, July 13, 2012 ...
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The EU's long-term lending arm,the European Investment Bank(EIB),has granted€50 million($65 million)to support a new 120 MW hydropower plant and long-distance transmission line in Zambia,with the aim of supplying power to southern ...
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SES Broadband and Damy Engineering have signed an agreement for the use of 18 MHz on SES' ASTRA 4A satellite. SES Broadband Services, a 100% owned affiliate of satellite operator SES, have announced that it has signed an agreement with ...
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vanguardngr reported that Ajaokuta Steel Company was a big dream, and Mr Noel Onoja remembers with nostalgia the splendor of the complex, and the dream that it had the potential to place the country on the path of international industrial ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has appointed Johan Cilliers as regional director of business development for sub-Saharan Africa and managing ...
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Source Africa, the biggest textiles and apparel trade event in Africa, has been launched in Cape Town, South Africa. The trade fair, which will take place from 9 – 12 April 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, will ...
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Africa s not big enough for Aliko Dangote, Nigeria s richest man. Dangote is planning to take Dangote Cement, his flagship company, into the rest of the world-starting with Iraq and Myanmar, where plant construction could begin next year. ...
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Dubai is gearing up to form an alliance by signing a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Samsung Life Insurance. The alliance can later turn up into a joint venture, which will focus in marketing life insurance products to the ...
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The UAE s push to enhance its industrial sector is set to get a shot in the arm with the launch of a new trade show - Made in UAE. At present, the contribution of the industrial sector to the GDP stands at 14% and the UAE has chalked out ...
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Government should beef up the timber industry so as to effectively take advantage of the looming timber shortage in South Africa. It is projected the South African local timber industry will not be able to meet the increasing demand for ...
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