Amid growing demand for natural gas, China's top economic planner has called for an increase in imports and stronger cooperation with Central Asian countries to ensure a stable supply in the coming winter. The National Development and ...
Tags: Gas Imports, natural gas
The United Kingdom has reiterated its openness to Chinese investment in the country's nuclear power industry, a senior British official has said. "Britain is the most open economy in the world, and that goes for our energy markets as ...
Tags: Nuclear Investment, Energy
Fourth-quarter contract price negotiations in the European caustic soda market have concluded at rollover to Eur15/mt price decreases, depending on the region and customer size, market sources said Monday. Most Q4 contracts were settled ...
Tags: Caustic Soda, Chemicals
Collaborative partnership is needed to address problems in the mining sector, South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday. "These problems cannot be addressed by any one group acting alone, they will require ...
The Ikea group raised its turnover in the 2012/2013 business year (31 August) by 3.1% to €27.9bn. This comes after growt of 9.5% in the previous business year. Adjusted for exchange rate fluctuations turnover grew by 3.6% in 2012/2013 ...
Tags: Ikea, Furniture, Furnishing, Construction
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), parent company of the nation's top oil and gas producer -- PetroChina, predicted on Monday that its natural gas supply at home will increase 13 percent during the upcoming winter and spring ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
On the heels of its perfume La Vie est Belle and its makeup-removing capsules, Lanc?me is once again showing its confidence in MBF Plastiques. With DreamTone, its first pigmentation correction skincare line, the top name in luxury has ...
Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) has announced that its Qinghua coal chemical project, located in the city of Bayannur in Inner Mongolia, successfully produced the first batch of qualified ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
The addressable market for chip-level optical interconnects could eventually run into billions of units, as revenues rise to almost $520m by 2019 then $1.02bn by 2021, according to the report 'Revenue Opportunities for Optical ...
United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS), which designs and produces RF, microwave and millimeter-wave components and ICs at its facilities in Orsay, France and Ulm, Germany, has made available enhanced process design kits (PDKs) by using the ...
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Chinese exported 310,000 mt of metallurgical and semi-finished coke in September, almost three times what it exported a year earlier, preliminary data released Saturday by the General Administration of Customs showed. In September 2012, ...
Tags: Coke Exports, Mineral
China has agreed to buy 200,000 mt/year of natural rubber from Thailand starting this year "on a government-to-government basis," the Thai government said Sunday. The Chinese government has pledged to buy the rubber "under a special deal ...
Tags: Natural Rubber, rubber
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has not saved end users a vast amount of money to date, and saving costs is not the main reason that organisations opt for VDI, according to VMware's head of public services strategy, Andy Tait. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Biotronik, a manufacturer of cardio and endovascular medical devices, has announced that its DREAMS scaffold (DRug Eluting Absorbable Metal Scaffold) has been successfully implanted in the first coronary artery disease patient in Germany as ...
Tags: Biotronik, medical devices
ContextVision, a provider of image enhancement software, has released a new ultrasound product for the mid-end segment. The company has designed a new version of the latest image enhancement software, US PLUSView, for the digital signal ...
Tags: ContextVision, Ultrasound Product