BS reported that after the shutdown of Vedanta Aluminium’s one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh on December 5th 2012 the Odisha government seems to have woken up, albeit belatedly to the raw material crisis that has ...
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Myanmar's reformist government is under fire for its brutal crackdown on peaceful protests against the copper mining project in Monywa, Sagaing Division. The police action which left several monks seriously injured has enraged the Myanmar ...
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CHINA'S monthly auto sales surged to the second-highest level this year in November, setting the world's largest auto market on the road to meeting record-high annual sales of 19 million units, the China Association of Automobile ...
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Reuters reported that China's boycotts of Japanese cars over a territorial dispute will shave about 550,000 tonnes, or about 2%, off Japan's fourth quarter steel output. A government survey of steelmakers showed that violent protests ...
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Western Libya's main refinery resumed operations after protesters shut it down for a day. Mr Essam Al Muntasir spokesman of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said that employees were able to resume work and fuel trucks were able to leave ...
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Reuters reported that protests at western Libya's main oil refinery closed operations for a second time this month raising concerns of a gaoline shortage in the capital. Mr Essam al Muntasir of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said ...
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TOI reported that tension prevailed at the Anrak alumina refinery plant area here on Wednesday after police authorities arrested a group of agitating farmers for trying to prevent lorries carrying raw materials from entering the plant. ...
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Just as the Bronze Age catapulted human civilization to new levels, critical metals are changing the way we live today. Rare earth elements, the group of resources used in the production of certain high-tech goods, from weapons to cell ...
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Western Libya's main refinery resumed operations yesterday after protesters shut it down for a day. Mr Essam Al Muntasir of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said that employees were able to resume work and fuel trucks were able to leave ...
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Proposals for new rules allowing milk farmers in England to join forces on talks with buyers have been set out today (11 December). The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting on legislation that would give ...
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Much of the talk for manufacturers on the release of their first-half and second-quarter results last week was focused on weakness in Europe and the knock-on effect from the impact of the US drought on corn prices. Elsewhere, Haribo said it ...
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Kosher food specialist G. Willi-Food has recorded a drop in nine-month profits as the firm experienced commodity cost increases and pressures from supermarkets to reduce prices. Net income in the nine months to the end of September ...
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Morrisons is to increase what it pays to milk farmers, becoming the latest UK retailer to up its payment amid anger from suppliers. The UK's fourth-largest retailer said it would increase the premium it pays for milk and make an extra ...
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A "coalition" of UK farming organisations has unveiled a ten-point plan that it claims will help secure the long-term future of the country's dairy industry. The plan, agreed by all members of the Dairy Coalition, focuses on "exposing bad ...
A "coalition" of UK farming organisations has unveiled a ten-point plan that it claims will help secure the long-term future of the country's dairy industry. The plan, agreed by all members of the Dairy Coalition, focuses on "exposing bad ...
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