Alcoa is in plans to acquire mines utilized for the production of aluminium from BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The firms have earlier this year shelved and sold mines citing poor outlook for the metal. Mr Alan Cransberg MD of Alcoa ...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has entered into an agreement with the government of the Equatorial Guinea, under which FAO will invest $3m to develop poultry farming in the country over three years. This ...
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Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ), the bottler and distributor of soft drinks has invested $35m to upgrade its manufacturing facility at Auckland and installed two beverage bottle production lines using blow-fill technology and a new ...
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Joyce Foods is set to launch Heritage Black Turkey in the US market. The Heritage Black Turkeys are raised with no antibiotics and with no added hormones or steroids, the company said. In addition, the turkeys are raised using humane ...
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Miningmx reported that ALCOA would seek to buy mines used in the manufacture of aluminium from BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto after they this year shelved and sold mines owing to the poor outlook for the metal. Mr Alan Cransberg MD of Alcoa ...
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A 5 year $5.4m grant has been awarded to Profectus BioSciences and the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to support the development of a Vesicular Stomatitis virus-vectored vaccine ...
Tags: Trivalent Vaccine, rVSV-vectored filovirus, Ebola and Marburg Viruses
Highlands Pacific has announced that the USD 1.5 billion Ramu Nickel Cobalt Mine has recently completed loading its maiden shipment of mixed nickel cobalt hydroxide intermediate product from the Basamuk process plant in Papua New Guinea. ...
Ciments de"l Afrique (CIMAF) and Polysius France have signed a contract for the construction of a cement grinding plant and a cement dispatch centre in Guinea. The order comprises the entire scope of activities, from plant planning, ...
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Inchcape Shipping Services(ISS)is implementing a cloud-based HR system to manage its 3,700 disparate global staff,after basing its choice of supplier on 10 key questions. ISS is now in the process of implementing a ...
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HP has announced the appointment of Robert Youngjohns to run its Autonomy software arm,ending a search that began in June after the sudden departure of Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch. Youngjohns previously worked at Sun ...
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In what's been a busy Parliamentary week, Australian MPs have been debating legislation which would prohibit the import of timber that's been illegally logged and impose significant fines on anyone bringing it in. Timber products from ...
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Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
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UK-Leading international lighting designer Tom Kenny specified over 100 Robe moving lights-ROBIN MMX Spots and ROBIN 600 LEDWashes-among others-to light the 2012 Country Music Television(CMT)Awards event in Nashville,Tennessee on June 6th. ...
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Cement results 1Q12 Dangote Cement has released its financial results for 1Q12. The results reveal an 8.9% y/y increase in profit before tax, rising from N27.4 billion in 2011 to N31.6 billion in 2012. Operating profits grew 13.7% y/y to ...
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