The latest declared glass recycling rate in South Africa is now, according to The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC), 40.1%; a 230% growth in annual volumes recycled since the inception of TGRC six years ago. Evidence of a shift in consumer ...
German brand ION is launching its new bike gloves worldwide this spring. The Path, Ledge and Wisp models each feature "digital tips" to enable touch screen use. The company says its version of the touch screen feature works better than ...
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The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 African countries. The move comes as part of the group’s Africa Information Highway initiative, which is aimed at ...
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South Africa - Radial Engineering has appointed Stage Audio Works as its distributor for the African region. Stage Audio Works, based in Southern Africa, is a leading supplier of cutting-edge live event audio and lighting technologies. ...
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South Africa-based coal producer Coal of Africa (CoAL) has announced its financial results for the second first half of 2012, reporting a net loss of $111.7 million compared to a net of $74.7 million in the corresponding period of the ...
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South Africa - The 9th Annual Channel O Music Video Awards was held at the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa. It comprised of a mega dome structure and an enormous lighting rig. For control lighting designer Joshua ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in January this year the country's mining production increased by 7.3 percent year on year, while the seasonally adjusted mining production index in January increased by ...
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Gaming fans will soon be able to navigate Nelson Mandela's South African apartheid prison on Robben Island in a new computer game, developers have announced. The game, designed to be an educational tool, will be modelled on life on the ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's ferroalloy imports totaled 132,069 metric tons in January this year, decreasing by 8.1 percent month on month and down 5.8 percent compared to January 2012. In ...
On March 12, Lamborghini announced the financial data of 2012. Last year, its operating income increased to 469 million dollars from 322 million dollars year-on-year, an increase of 45.7%. Lamborghini’s global sales were 2,083 ...
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South African textile and apparel industry is facing several challenges, including macroeconomic influences of Asian imports and the domestic labor challenges, and hence the performance of the industry may reamin stable in the coming years, ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in January this year the country's manufacturing output rose by 3.9 percent compared to the same month of 2012, while the seasonally adjusted manufacturing production is ...
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Chinese vehicle manufacturer First Automobile Works (FAW) is planning to invest CNY7.2bn ($1.146bn) in research and development of products in 2013. The total investment by the company during the period of 2011 and 2015 will reach ...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced that gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area grew by 0.5 percent quarter on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with 0.6 percent ...
Solar PV demand to hit 31GW in 2013 - analyst 13 Mar 2013 Another year of single-digit growth says NPD Solarbuzz; China, Japan, India to account for 36% of global demand. Sunny forecast: geographic breakdown of global PV demand in ...
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