As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business and increasing costs, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has decided to close soda ash production at its Osborne, Adelaide ...
Tags: Penrice, Soda Ash, SASS Victoria
It’s reported that Tata Metaliks is modulating the shareholding in its ductile iron (DI) pipe project. The project was a joint venture which was founded to build a 110,000 tpy DI pipe plant at Kharagpur, sourcing pig iron from Tata ...
Tags: Mineral, Tata Metaliks, JV of DI Pipe
Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp began operations at its new coal trading desk in Singapore Monday as part of a wider restructuring of its commodities trading businesses, market sources said Tuesday. The Japanese trading house ...
Russian steelmaker Evraz has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a stake in the Timir joint venture project for a total consideration of RUB 4.950 million (approximately $160 million) to be paid in several instalments. At ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global supplier of technology and services Metso is all set to supply grade conversion rebuild of Blue Paper's paper machine at its mill site in Strasbourg, France. The start up of the re-built machine is set to commence in the last ...
Tags: packaging, headbox, packaging industry
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) announced that Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet, its subsidiary, has finished the investment to a joint venture with BlueScope from Australia. NSSMC bought the 50% share of the joint venture from ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Nippon Steel, Sumikin Coated Sheet
Leading power and automation technology group ABB, has landed a major oil and gas contract valued at $15 million in the Timor Sea off Western Australia. ? ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, ABB
ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services (RPS), a US-based contract research organization (CRO) and Asklep, a Japanese CRO, have formed a new Joint Venture Company (JVC) to deliver R&D outsourcing solutions in Japan to the medical device and ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Medical Device Industry
German automotive manufacturer Daimler has opened a new product development center in China, under a joint venture with the Fujian Benz Automotive. The center includes a design and computation department, a proving ground, several ...
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CHINESE supplier Yuanda has won $85 million worth of contracts on the SA Health and Medical Research Institute and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This month, Shenyang Yuanda Aluminium Industry Engineering trading as Yuanda began ...
Boao Forum for Asia 2013 Annual Conference will be held from April 6 to 8 in Boao, Hainan Province. Recently, Boao Forum for Asia's magazine "Boao Observation" teams up new institutional economics originator Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate ...
Tags: Mineral, Baosteel, Internationalization Road
LED packaging house Unity Opto shipped one million LED light bulbs to Europe- and US-based distribution channels in the first quarter and has obtained orders for one million units. The firm predicts total shipments of LED light bulbs in ...
Tags: LED light bulbs, LED light, LED backlight
American flavor company Virginia Dare and China-based We-e Flavors have opened a new full service flavor company in Shanghai, China. The new facility will allow both the firms to better capitalize on business opportunities in China. The ...
Tags: flavor company, food, beverage
Meat packer Hilton Food Group, which supplies retailers such as Tesco, is expected to ride out the recent horsemeat contamination issue unscathed, following publication of its preliminary results for 2012 which showed sales up 5% to 1bn. ...
Tags: Hilton Food, Food, Meat
Ratings agency Moody's expects US refiners to increase investments in renewables blending and infrastructure if federal renewables targets are not lowered. "In the absence of any EPA waivers to meeting the renewable fuel requirements, we ...