It’s reported that Jiuli Hi-Tech Metals, one of the major stainless steel pipe producers in China has planned to raise its stainless steel pipe outputs by 19% from a year ago to 66,800 tons in 2013. Last year, the company ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has launched new generation of brake boosters to reduce the weight of the vehicles. The company claims that the weight has been reduced by about 50% or 1,700gms compared to the classical steel brake ...
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German carmaker BMW has expanded the use of hydrogen fuel-cells to power the material-handling equipment operating at its Spartanburg County manufacturing facility in the US. The carmaker's fleet of hydrogen fuel-cell powered ...
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Honda Performance Development (HPD) has partnered with the Italian auto components maker Magneti Marelli to develop components of the powertrain to be used in the IZOD IndyCar Series. Under the partnership, both the companies will use ...
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Yemeni steelmaker Star Company is seeking a possible new investor after its Chinese partner announced it intends to sell its shareholding. The works has a plasma furnace-based billet plant with annual capacity 43,000 tons and a 60,000 ...
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Tenaris, a world leading North American supplier of tubes and related services for the world’s energy industry has continued to proceed in second stage of building sucker rods mill in Veracruz, Mexico for expansion. This project ...
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A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 25 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website. Matthew Keys, who according to his ...
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Google’s head of Android, Andy Rubin, is reportedly stepping aside, which could mean big changes for the mobile platform as well as for the Chrome operating system. Google CEO Larry Page announced the move in a blog post ...
Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday. The company should instead focus on the more robust Windows 8 ...
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Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos designed to help webmasters identify, diagnose and ...
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Labrador Iron Mines Holdings (LIM) and Tata steel have already settled the cooperation agreement, including the sale of a 51% stake in the Howse iron ore. Under the agreement, LIM and Tata Steel Minerals Canada (TSMC) will develop rail ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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Coldwater Creek Inc. reported financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended February 2, 2013. The Company noted that the following non-comparable items impacted the fourth quarter and fiscal year: The Company's fiscal 2012 is a ...
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LyondellBasell executives, led by CEO Jim Gallogly, told participants at the company's Investor Day in New York how LyondellBasell is preparing to build upon its record 2012 performance which included $5.8 billion of EBITDA and earnings of ...
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To honour the achievements of OEKO-TEX certified companies who have shown special commitment to the issue of sustainability, the OEKO-TEX. Association will be presenting the Sustainability Award for the first time on 12 June 2013 during an ...
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