Most people who go to Saint Peter's are probably familiar with hookah lounges. Adults, nineteen and over, can go to the lounges and mingle with others while smoking from hookahs. The lounges are typically smoked filled, as people smoke a ...
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
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Mothercare's total group sales dropped six per cent in 2012, but the retailer's transformation plan means its business "is on a firmer footing". The company closed 56 loss-making stores in the UK last year. Total sales in the UK fell ...
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On April 11, Beijing-based Chinese steel producer Shougang Group announced that in the January-March quarter this year its subsidiary Shougang Cold Rolled Sheet Co., Ltd produced 515,700 mt of cold rolled products, up 39.34 percent compared ...
Tags: Finished Steel, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
On Wednesday, Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based service center Metals USA Holdings Corp. announced that its stockholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement, entered into on February 6, 2013, among Metals USA Holdings Corp., Reliance ...
Tags: Reliance Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
India-based Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korean steelmaker POSCO to mutually cooperate with each other for long-term joint business opportunities. According ...
Tags: Stainless, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Russia-based steelmaking and mining giant Evraz has announced its preliminary audited results for the year ended 31 December 2012. In the given year, Evraz registered sales revenues of about $14.726 billion, decreasing 10.2 percent ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
On April 11, Sichuan Province-based Chinese steel producer Chengdu Steel & Vanadium Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Sichuan-based steelmaker Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group (Pangang Group), announced that in March this year it sold 100,400 mt of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2013 and 2014, worldsteel Economics Committee revised down its global apparent steel consumption growth forecast to 2.9 percent from its October 2012 ...
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According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), steel demand in the European Union (EU) is expected to contract further by 0.5 percent in 2013, well below the 2.4 percent growth which had been forecast in ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in May this year Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to fall by an estimated 4.2 percent compared to March this year to 2.75 million mt. According to ...
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According to the statistics released by the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance, in March this year Taiwan's export value of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel amounted to $1.65 billion, increasing by 0.9 percent compared to the ...
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The highest cellular chip growth rate last year was the multimode stand-alone (3G/LTE) baseband chip market at 892% for a total of $852 million, reports Forward Concepts. That represented 50 million modems and another 20 million 3G/LTE ...
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At its 2013 Analyst Day event in New York, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) ...
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This Canadian study investigates a recently identified group of disinfection by-products, halo-benzoquinones, including formation and treatment in bench-scale coagulation of three source waters. Halo-benzoquinones (HBQs) are a recently ...
Tags: Halo-Benzoquinone, bench-scale coagulation, source waters