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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Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd, China's largest construction machinery maker by revenue, expects to double its sales in the Brazilian market from last year to exceed $200 million, further consolidating its market share in Latin America. Sany ...
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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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Sany Group, the largest crane maker in China and the sixth-largest in the world, plans to focus more on market expansion in ASEAN by using Thailand as a production base for excavators in the next few years in addition to Indonesia. The move ...
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Philippine snack food and beverage company Universal Robina(URC)is set to take complete control of its overseas business division URC International(URCI)by purchasing 23%stake held by investment firm International Horizons Investments for ...
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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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Global demand for HVAC equipment is projected to rise 6.1 percent per year through 2016 to $107 billion. This growth rate is an acceleration from the gains of the 2006-2011 period, reflecting in part the reduced 2011 bases of the developed ...
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Global demand for HVAC equipment is projected to rise 6.1 percent per year through 2016 to $107 billion. This growth rate is an acceleration from the gains of the 2006-2011 period, reflecting in part the reduced 2011 bases of the developed ...
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Taiwan’s machinery exports amounted to NT$139.1 billion in the first quarter of this year, a marginal improvement of l.4% from the year before, according to the latest statistics compiled by the Taiwan Association of Machinery ...
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Toshiba said Thursday it will reorganize its TV business in Japan, merging product designers with those for computers and tablets in attempt to create "fusion products" and simplify its product lines. The company said it will also move ...
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Lumenpulse has recently declared the expansion of its strategic partnership deal with Technolite based in Singapore.Following this new agreement,the partnership's potential will be expanded with the addition of Brunei,Hong ...
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
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Lumenpulse Inc.has developed a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Technolite,to expand Lumenpulse's presence in Hong Kong,Malaysia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Thailand,Brunei and the Philippines. As exclusive partner,Technolite has been ...
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Indonesian cement producers estimate that cement sales will have grown steadily at 16 percent during the first half of this year, driven by the realization of infrastructure projects and the residential housing boom. Widodo Santoso, the ...
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Sales of industrial pumps in Asia will reach almost US$16 billion this year according to the McIlvaine Co's latest Pumps World Markets research. Municipal water and wastewater will account for 37% of pump purchases in Asia. The lack of ...
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