Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced that work has halted at its IndoMet coal project located in Indonesia after a contract worker was fatally injured in the construction area on Monday, January 21. The IndoMet coal project which ...
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The Food & Drink Federation has released a report praising achievements by the industry to cut salt, fat and sugar from products, as its Responsibility Deal with government comes under renewed pressure. There has been an average 10% cut ...
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China is expected to see an influx of polyethylene from Iran this month, after an absence of product from the Middle Eastern country since early October, market sources said. An estimated 100,000-150,000 mt of high density and low ...
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BP said Monday it was too early to estimate when it could restart gas flows from its In Amenas fields in eastern Algeria two days after Algerian forces ended a bloody hostage crisis at the desert gas plant. "Production from the plant ...
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China's commercial crude oil stocks fell 3.6% at the end of December from a month earlier, according to China Petroleum Stockpile Statistics compiled by state news agency Xinhua and released on Monday. The fall in stocks was due to ...
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A Grande Vegas Casino player had a dream come true the other day when she won a $6330 slots jackpot the day after fantasizing about it on Facebook. The casino is rewarding players with monthly cash prizes for posting a lifelong dream on ...
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Costa Rica dairy firm Dos Pinos has acquired the milk and juice business of SABMiller's Panama subsidiary. SABMiller announced the sale of the business by Cervecería Nacional to La Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos for ...
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The so called ‘unfavorable policies’ of the Indian government and persistent ‘ill-health’ of the US economy have started showing the signs which may not be welcomed by Indian jewellery industry. Thomson Reuters GFMS ...
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US sauces maker Traina Foods has expanded its portfolio to include Premium California Sun Dried Tomato Ketchup. Launched at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco this week, the sauce is designed for use on foods such as hamburgers ...
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The big news this week is the sale of famed jewellery and watch brand, Harry Winston, to the Swatch Group for $750 million plus their assumption of up to $250 million of pro forma net debt. Several analysts and industry observers see this ...
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President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, hosted foreign diplomats and representatives of international organizations based in Erbil last week to discuss the latest political and economic developments in Kurdistan and in Iraq and to ...
The US-based paper and packaging firm said that it completed a license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies to use this new technology to reduce plastic used in coated paperboard products. The company’s coated paperboard ...
The U.S. Embassy, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), met from January 15 to January 17 to help Iraq improve its agricultural sector through the U.S.-funded ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the first successful demonstration ...
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Canada’s University of Waterloo has ordered a GEN10 molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system from Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) hosting the Waterloo Institute for ...