Dr Farooq Abdullah the minister of New and Renewable Energy informed the Lok Sabha that the total installed capacity of renewable energy based power in the country is 26,267 MW. A capacity addition of 30,000 MW is targeted from renewable ...
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Global thermal coal market undergoes pangs of oversupply and poor demand. 2012 has been game changer with US emerging as potent supplier domestic energy demand being met by shale gas making coal mining redundant. However the vacillating ...
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Salzgitter announced that Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH (ILG) is raising its heavy plate prices by EUR 30 per tonne for all new product sales. It said "The necessary price increase reflects the rising costs of raw materials and the resulting ...
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The business outlook for 2013 is mixed, with Australian executives indicating that sales, inventories, selling prices and employment will fall but investment and profits will rise. Dun & Bradstreet's latest National Business Expectations ...
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Reuters reported that steelmakers in Brazil will likely witness a recovery in sales and a reduction in excess capacity next year as recent government measures to revive growth are bearing fruit. Instituto Aço Brasil said that ...
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Ecuador Gold&Copper Corporation announced that its Ecuador subsidiary,Condormining Corporation SA has entered into a shareholders agreement dated effective November 2nd 2012 with Minera Guang Shou Ecuador SA to form JV for exploration ...
Mirasol Resources announced to provide an exploration update on the 100% owned Rubi copper, molybdenum and gold porphyry project located adjacent to the world class El Salvador mining district in Region III of northern Chile. The 13,350 ...
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The Brazilian Aluminium Association and the Brazilian Association of Aluminium Cans of High Recyclability have announced that Brazil topped all its previous aluminium can recycling efforts by accomplishing a historic rate of over 98% in ...
Closer trade ties between China and Chile following the signing of a landmark trade agreement are seeing a surge of exports to China. Mr Alvaro Jana Linetzky DG of international economic relations with the Chilean Foreign Ministry said ...
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The glass and metal packaging manufacturer has launched RinGo, which is claimed to be 20% lighter that the standard pack. In addition, Ardagh said that the user can drain the whole content. A necked in top, as opposed to the straight wall ...
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Elmwood was tasked with creating an emotional connection with consumers and the new packs include the strapline ‘At the heart of your home’. In addition, the packaging incorporates the “sensory moments we all savour such ...
Speaking at the Pro2Pac exhibition, Mintel International innovations and insight director David Jago told Packaging News: “Sustainability as an issue has not gone away and if you look at the tracking data that we have got, consumers ...
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Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/30/2012 7:06:00 AM By Candace Choi, Associated Press Ducking into a dollar store to pick up some a soda and bag of cookies might save you time and effort, but will you ...
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London copper rose near a one month high early after lenders secured an aid deal for Greece boosting the euro and building on confidence about global demand for the metal sparked by signs of an economic revival in top consumer China. ...
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Brazil's steel distributors association, Inda, has disclosed that its members' steel sales rose 8.1% year on year to 401,200 tonne in October, increasing by 13.4% as compared to September. In the January to October period of the current ...
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