Luxembourg-based steelmaker Ternium S.A. and Tecpetrol International S.A. announced Monday that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly build and operate a natural gas-fired combined cycle electric power plant in ...
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High Technology Lighting has announced it is to expand its international operations. The company is to develop its Scandinavian market with the recent appointment of a distributor in Sweden, and it also forging partnerships in Spain, UAE ...
According to a new report from Markets and Markets, he global colorants market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 3.6 percent from 2013 to 2018 and reach 11 million metric tons by 2018. Asia-Pacific, with its thriving economies and rapidly ...
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Microsoft will start selling its struggling Surface devices to business customers abroad via channel partners on Thursday. The move builds on a similar effort Microsoft launched in July to tap distributors and resellers to push Surface ...
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NYCO Flexible Packaging has invested in a new UV flexo hybrid printing technology, new printing facility and additional slitting capacity at its Kirchberg manufacturing site in Luxembourg. NYCO sales and marketing director Sander Kool ...
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The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 12.1% in June 2013, stable compared with May. The EU27 unemployment rate was 10.9%, down from 11.0% in May. In both zones, rates have risen compared with June 2012, when they ...
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Luxembourg-based food and beverage containers manufacturer Ardagh Group is all set to invest $93.5m to establish a metal packaging manufacturing operation in a 525,000ft2 facility in Roanoke County, Virginia, US. Virginia Governor Bob ...
The European industrial initiative EU ProSun has announced that it will take action before the EU General Court against the agreement that has been reached in the trade dispute over dumped solar panels from China. Milan Nitzschke, ...
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ArcelorMittal, the world's largest manufacturer of steel announced a huge second quarter loss. The Luxembourg based steelmaker reportedly recorded a second quarter loss of US$780 million, taking losses incurred by the company thus far ...
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Luxembourg-headquartered global stainless steel producer Aperam SA, which was spun off by ArcelorMittal and separately listed in 2011, has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. In the second ...
The world's largest steelmaker Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year, stating that it has had to lower its guidance for 2013 due to weaker than ...
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At the end of the first quarter of 2013, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA17) stood at 92.2%, compared with 90.6% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. In the EU27 the ratio increased from 85.2% to 85.9%. Compared ...
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block Ardagh Group's planned acquisition of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA's SGO.FR +1.92%U.S. glass-bottle operations, saying the purchase would violate antitrust laws. Ardagh, a glass and ...
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House prices, as measured by the House Price Index (HPI), fell by 2.2% in the euro area and by 1.4% in the EU3 in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to data published by Eurostat, the ...
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At the SEMICON West 2013 event in San Francisco (9-11 July), Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) has announced that it has expanded its global manufacturing ...
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