State-owned Shougang, one of China's largest steel companies, resumed operations at its 300 mt/year gas-to-ethanol pilot plant in Jingtang, northern China, in August, following a halt in February due to a technical glitch, a spokesman at ...
Tags: steel, Construction
20 Fenchurch Street in London is home to a futuristic, sleek, striking skyscraper that's been dubbed the "Walkie Talkie" due to its distinctive shape. Maybe not the most dignified of nicknames, but the developers were happy to see their ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Specialty sleep producer Authentic Comfort said Eric Besner has joined the company as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Besner recently held the same position at Louisville Bedding and was previously national accounts ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
Latex International, a producer of Talalay latex foams, has developed a new latex formulation that it says will help bedding makers cut their production costs. The company's new Controlled Thermal Reaction Latex is a patent-pending ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
EPA agents are wearing body armor and carrying guns to check on Clean Water Act violations? In late August, agents of the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force descended on several mines around the town of Chicken, and may have been there ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Regulating ourselves to death Worshipping the golden calf — wagyu style Water challenges will not be solved this way Now is certainly not the time for growers and agricultural organizations to take pot shots and snipe at each other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
"Heroes of Kingdoms", an online game in which heroes fight against one another, is to embrace its open beta test on September 11. The game is cited by William Ding as "a sward which has been sharpened for four years". After the game is ...
Tags: NetEase, online game
Investment fund Starboard Value LP, one of majority shareholders of the largest US pork producer Smithfield Foods (SFD), planned to vote against the merger between SFD and Shuanghui International Holding, said foreign sources. Starboard ...
Tags: Agriculture, shuanghui, Food, pork
The imports of Indonesian laterite via Ganyu Port in Lianyungang grew substantially. From January to August, the imports of Indonesian laterite via Ganyu Port hit more than 2 million tons. The imported laterite are mainly used as raw ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral
At the 2013 Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC2013) held in Shanghai, vice chairman of the telecom equipment supplier said that the company will focus on cloud computing datacenter solutions oriented to the future including server, storage, ...
Tags: Huawei, Information Modeling, storage, datacenter network
Hainan Airlines said on September 4 that the return routes between Beijing and Chicago, the third largest city of the US, completed the maiden flight on September 3, driving it to become the first China airline with direct flight between ...
Tags: Airlines, Transportation
Zhongfu Industries co-won a build-transfer (BT) bid with RSEA Engineering for phase 1 of "two sewage treatment plants in Pingtan comprehensive experimental zone". The project has a total investment of about CNY 192 million. the project ...
EMC today announced advances in its VNX line of midrange storage, which will now be built for flash first, and new capabilities for its VXPEX Proven Architecture portfolio. The storage giant also revealed that its software-defined storage ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Microsoft's?$7.2 billion deal?to buy Nokia, announced early today, makes Nokia CEO Stephen Elop the frontrunner to head up Microsoft after Steve Ballmer departs, analysts said. Unfortunately, the deal isn't likely to substantially improve ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Chinese search company Baidu has entered the country's smart TV market with a product powered by its video site iQiyi. The smart TV, which goes on sale Wednesday, was developed by iQiyi in partnership with Chinese electronics maker TCL. ...
Tags: Smart TV, Consumer Electronics, Baidu