UPM-Kymmene had to put up with an operating loss of €1.350bn in 2012 in spite of a rise in turnover by around 4% to €10,438. In 2011 the group had still booked an operating profit of €459m. UPM-Kymmene blames the losses ...
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Despite minor reductions in demand in the fourth quarter of 2012, oak sawmills appear to be generally satisfied with business last year as a whole. Demand also picked up in January. The slightly lower sales generated at the end of the year ...
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Audi Australia has announced runout pricing for selected models in the outgoing Audi A3 range ahead of the introduction of the new-generation hatch in May. The Audi A3 1.4 TFSI S tronic and 1.8 TFSI S tronic Sportback models and the 1.8 ...
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Australia’s most successful performance car manufacturer, Holden Special Vehicles (HSV), has celebrated the production of its 75,000th car. The milestone car, a 2013 HSV ClubSport sedan in Perfect Blue paint (above), rolled off the ...
Hydro International has entered into a strategic business partnership with Russian water engineering company Ecoline Ltd to supply its stormwater management and treatment products in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Hydro ...
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Les Uhlmeyer will head up WesTech Engineering Inc’s new Municipal Water Treatment Business Unit overseeing the Microfloc and General Filter product lines. “The General Filter and Microfloc product lines have always enjoyed ...
Headworks BIO Inc. has been awarded a contract by Claude Resources Inc. to supply its Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) technology to treat underground mine water at the Seabee Gold Mine in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Headworks BIO is ...
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Holden has introduced an aggressive new service price program across its range in an attempt to convince more customers to get their cars serviced at the brand’s certified dealerships. Under the HoldenWise Service Price Guarantee ...
Matias Amor has joined Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) as regional sales manager, Water and Wastewater for Spain and Portugal. He will be responsible for increasing Koch Membrane Systems’ commercial growth in this region and developing ...
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Membrane specialist and Degrémont SA subsidiary Aquasource has appointed Marc Messerli as its new chief operating officer (COO). Messerli, 37, has served as an industrial manager within a number of large companies, most notably at ...
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IDE Technologies Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy company, for the development of an Osmotic Power Generation pilot plant in Norway. The project is first of its kind to generate ...
Aquatech, the wastewater treatment recycle and reuse company, has been granted a permit to operate a central treatment facility in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA. The facility, designed using Aquatech’s MoSuite™ set of ...
Increases up to 15 percent expected, depending on geographies, applications and specific grades. The price increases are effective in Europe on Feb. 1 and the rest of the world on Feb. 15, 2013, in each case as contracts allow. These ...
Tags: Dow Water&Process Solutions, water treatment, purification technology
UK supplier of compressed-air filter elements Hi-line Industries Ltd. is now offering a full test and air quality analysis service for filter media. This now includes both Hi-line filter elements, as well as the testing of any filtration ...
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Blue Angel Sump Minder checks for proper functionality in advance of a flooding problem Sump Minder™ is a microprocessor controlled DC sump pump that continually checks for AC power, 12 V battery charge, and self-tests the DC pump ...