Xylem Inc. has won a major contract to treat municipal drinking water for a new high-tech industrial zone in Korea. The contract for Xylem will see ultraviolet (UV) advanced oxidation process (AOP) technology utilised for the first time ...
Tags: municipal drinking water, municipal drinking water system
UK's HSBC Holdings has geared up to dispose its Vietnamese insurance business with an anticipated price of $400m, as part of its strategy to exit non-core operations worlwide. A source close to the potential deal told Reuters that HSBC ...
South Korea has issued a ban on sale and consumption of meat of whales caught for scientific purpose. An unnamed official from Ministry of Food,Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries told the Yonhap News Agency that from the very beginning ...
Tags: meat of whales, ban, scientific research
According to statistics released by the Korea Iron and Steel Association (KOSA), South Korea's production of hot rolled coils (HRC) increased by 3% year on year to 30.41 million tons in the first ten months of this year, in spite of weak ...
Tags: hot rolled coils, production of hot rolled coils, HRC Output
To promote the commercialization of LED lighting, South Korea's Knowledge Economy Ministry announced in 2006 a "15/30" plan, which means to achieve 30% LED lighting commercialization by 2015. The ministry later announced a "20/60" plan in ...
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Mexico has initiated the export of pork to Singapore, with an initial shipment of 22 tons. The pork was shipped from Ensenada, Baja California. Mexico's agriculture department said that this operation confirms the marketing of meat ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce announced on November 1 that the government received requests to conduct anti-dumping investigations on Europe-based polysilicon imports in September. The announcement stated that as of November 1, Europe-based ...
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Japan exported 1.1 million tons of hot rolled (HR) steel flat products in October, falling by 7.4% from a month earlier while rising by 4.7% year on year, according to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance. In the first ...
Tags: Hr Steel, hot rolled steel flat products, Hr Steel Flat Products
Parks, lakes and rivers around the country will be alive with the sounds of drummers pounding out furious beats and racers vigorously urging their dragon boats across the water to celebrate the traditional Dragon Boat Festival (duanwujie). ...
Tags: Dragon Boat Festival, one of the country's oldest festivals
EV Group has completed its expanded cleanroom IV facility at its corporate headquarters in Austria, which doubled its cleanroom space for process development and pilot production services. As part of the company's long-term growth ...
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South Korea's automobile manufacturer Kia has launched the 2013 Rio 5-door SX with a 6-speed manual transmission (M/T), in a limited quantity of 500 units for American market. The new car is powered by an 138hp 4-cylinder double- overhead ...
Tags: Kia, Rio 5-door SX, 6-speed manual transmission, new car
The South Korean unit of French carmaker Renault, Renault Samsung motors is planning to cut its workforce by 15% under a voluntary retirement programme in a bid to reduce expenses. As per the plan, nearly 800 of its 5,500 employees will ...
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Specialty chemicals and biologics supplier SAFC has inked an agreement with CrystalGenomics to develop active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). The agreement reflects SAFC's ...
About 80 million clean diesel vehicles will be sold globally from 2012 to 2018, according to a report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant's Energy Practice. The report found that sales of clean diesel vehicles, including light-duty ...
Tags: clean diesel vehicles, light-duty vehicles, medium-duty trucks
Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third ...
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