The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each. According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of the ...
South African packaging company Nampak Flexible has invested in a seven layer co-ex film extruder as well as a laser scoring machine. The new Windm?ller & H?lscher seven-layer co-ex machine can use high barrier film which is ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, scoring machine
Light-emitting diode (LED) technology has the potential to light up the African continent if the political will can be found, a major producer has said. LED technology was invented by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev in 1927, though it was ...
China-based solar module maker Hanwha SolarOne saw first-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues show a 33.3% sequential growth to CNY1.1129 billion (US$181 million). First-quarter 2013 revenues also showed an on-year increase of 38.4% compared ...
Tags: Hanwha Solarone, Lighting
Guzhen Town is situated at the northwest periphery of the city of Zhongshan with a distance of 23 km from the city. The town is famous for its lighting fitting and equipment industries. The population of Guzhen Town is of an estimation of ...
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Sportlifestyle company PUMA has appointed Andy Koehler (56) as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective 1 June 2013. Koehler, who succeeds former COO Klaus Bauer, will be part of PUMA's Managing Director team around PUMA's future CEO ...
It is reported that China's Sinohydro Corporation, the world’s largest hydropower construction company is going to get the supply of more than 120,000 tons of reinforcing steel rebar from Newcastle plant of ArcelorMittal South Africa ...
Tags: hydropower construction, Energy
At the Global Department Store Summit in Paris (GDSS), The Intercontinental Group of Department Stores (IGDS) announced that Selfridges has once again been recognised as the Best Department Store in the World for an unprecedented second ...
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its South African unit ArcelorMittal South Africa is supplying China's Sinohydro Corporation with reinforcing steel from its Newcastle plant for a number of hydroelectric projects across ...
Tags: rebar, longs, Zambia, Africa, ArcelorMittal, steelmaking, Istanbul
Verderflex: After decades of uncontrolled industrial (mining) activities, water supply is under serious threat. Studies show that acid water levels in the country s mines are rising at a staggering average rate of 0.59 m/day. The water ...
In the first quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.9 percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. The country's ...
Tags: economy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
An exhibition displaying an array of aristocratic, performance and ritual clothing of Africa is going on at the famous encyclopaedic art museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, US. Titled as Majestic African Textiles, the ...
Tags: Textiles, African, Indianapolis
Dairy technology firm Waikato Milking Systems is establishing a new complex known as Northgate in the Waikato business park, Hamilton with an investment of NZ$12m ($9.71m). The two-building complex will bring together the company's ...
Tags: Milking Systems, Dairy Technology
General Insurance Corporation (GIC Re), the Indian government owned sole reinsurer, is seriously considering expanding reinsurance business beyond domestic boundary through the acquisition of some Lloyd’s syndicates. Speaking at a ...
Tags: GIC Re Eyes, Service, Syndicates
Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people. The ...