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Implats Said Refined Platinum Output in The January-March Quarter Fell 40% to 205,000 Oz
May 21, 2014South African platinum miner Implats said Friday gross refined platinum output in the January-March quarter fell 40% to 205,000 oz, hit by ongoing strike action. The company's "good start to the financial year was severely impacted in the ...
Tags: Platinum, platinum miner
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The Price of Platinum Is Forecast to Average $1,457/Oz in 2014, Down 2%
May 5, 2014The price of platinum is forecast to average $1,457/oz in 2014, 2% down from the 2013 average of $1,487/oz, as strike action has failed to give the metal any meaningful lift so far, metals consultancy GFMS said Friday in a report. "The ...
Tags: Platinum Price, platinum
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The Introduction of 2013 Toy Industry Awards
Jan 23, 2014Teksta, John Adams and Bentalls among those honoured at last night's event. Character Options, LEGO, Hasbro and John Adams were among the winners at last night's 2013 Toy Industry Awards. Held at the Science Museum in South Kensington, ...
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Unions Will Seek Urgent Talks with The Main Contractor
Jan 9, 2014Unions will seek urgent talks with the main contractor to impress the need to put forward an offer to resolve this long running dispute says GMB Scotland An overwhelming majority of GMB members employed on a new gas plant project in ...
Tags: GMB, new gas plant project, Shetland, industrial action, accommodation
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NYMEX February Crude Settled $1.48 Lower at $93.96/Barrel Friday
Jan 7, 2014NYMEX February crude settled $1.48 lower at $93.96/barrel Friday, as a large draw in stockpiles was overshadowed by a sharp drop off in product demand and rising distillate stocks. ICE February Brent settled 89 cents lower at $106.89/b. ...
Tags: stockpiles, crude, Mineral
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Premier Foods Was The Subject of Media Reports Surrounding The Sale of 100M of Its Debt
Nov 19, 2013Premier Foods was the subject of media reports surrounding the sale of 100M of its debt and its Hovis brand – as well as seeing a number of its directors quit the company – over the last 12 months. On top of this, the firm had ...
Tags: Premier Foods, year, picture
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Libya's Domestic Ructions May Put Paid to BP's Hopes of Becoming a Leading Oil Producer
Nov 12, 2013Libya’s domestic ructions may have put paid to BP’s hopes of becoming a leading oil producer in the country. As The Wall Street Journal’s Benoît Faucon reports, the British oil major is in talks to relinquish control ...
Tags: Gulf Coast Prices, Shale
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MMK Metalurji's Finished Steel Output Decreased by 14 Percent Quarter on Quarter
Oct 28, 2013Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 14 percent quarter on quarter to 144,000 mt in the third quarter of the current ...
Tags: MMK Metalurji, Finished Steel
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Coal of Africa Limited's Run-of-Mine Production Fell 23% to 3.78 Million Mt
Sep 3, 2013Coal of Africa Limited's run-of-mine production fell 23% to 3.78 million mt of (ROM) mt in its 2012/13 year, with activity hit by a blocked rail line, flooding at a colliery, and strike action. CoAL also said Friday it processed 3.37 ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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Toll Said The Union Would Not Take Industrial Action
Aug 30, 2013Following the TWU's threat of further protected strike action made on Monday, Toll spokesperson Christopher Whitefield said the company was hopeful the union would not take industrial action while negotiations were still ongoing. "[The] ...
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MMK Metalurji Has Announced The End of Strike Action
Aug 12, 2013Russian steelmaker MMK's Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji has announced that it has reached a settlement with Turkish labor union Celik-Is within the scope of collective labor agreement negotiations and so the strike action which ...
Tags: MMK Metalurji, Strike Action
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Series of Strikes That Were Scheduled to Start in Yorkshire and Scotland
Aug 9, 2013The improved offer came after talks in Leeds that finished in the early hours of the morning (Friday 9 August) between Unite, the country's largest union, the GMB union and the management under the auspices of the conciliation service Acas. ...
Tags: Packaging machinery, Packaging
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Union Unite Claimed Victory for Spearheading The Campaign
Aug 5, 2013Strike action has been averted at Molson Coors' Burton-on-Trent brewery in an eleventh hour pay deal, with union Unite claiming victory for spearheading the campaign. Workers had previously voted by 97% in favour of a strike at the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Workers Planed Strike Action at Premier Foods' Wigan Bakery Over Use of Labour Changes
Aug 5, 2013Workers are planning strike action at Premier Foods' Wigan bakery over use of agency labour and shift pattern changes, while the firm's bakeries at Birmingham and Greenford shut on schedule. Premier Foods makes Hovis-branded products at ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Thousands of Workers Will Vote on Industrial Action After The Fair Work Commission Today
Jul 10, 2013Thousands of workers will vote on industrial action at Australia's largest transport and logistics operator after the Fair Work Commission today approved the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) application for a Protected Action Ballot across ...
