A GLOBAL rights group has launched a campaign to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it ...
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Ukraine's largest pipe manufacturer Interpipe started producing steel billets in 2012, a new achievement on its way to vertical integration. Duncan Pell, Interpipe's sales director for the Middle East and North Africa, explained Interpipe's ...
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It is reported that Finnish steelmaker Rautaruukki has introduced its new sales offices in Toronto (Canada) and Santiago (Chile) in order to meet and serve its customers in the Americas. The company will focus on the special steel products ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It is reported that Russia's Dansteel, owned by Russian steel group NLMK, planned to extend its plate annual production capacity to 400,000 tons this year. However, the company will try to reach the plate annual production capacity of 80% ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
The market of sapphire substrates, an upstream material for LEDs, has been in oversupply with prices falling. The prices are lower than the production costs of many firms. This has also caused many tier-two sapphire firms to purchase ...
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Several producers and manufacturers from Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Italy, Spain, Poland, the UK, Germany and India participated at Latvia’s just concluded 18th edition of ‘Fashion & Textile ...
Sebastian Vettel has made an exploratory visit to the new Sochi Olympic Park Circuit in Russia, planned to host a future round of the Formula One World Championship. Fresh from his win at the weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix – ...
New York-based womenswear label Suno has joined hands with the famous Japanese casual wear retailer Uniqlo to design a new collection as part of the latter’s latest edition of Designer Invitation Project. Known for its ...
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GE and Russian oil company Bashneft have launched pilot testing of GE's ZeeWeed? membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for biological treatment of sewage water from the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil processing complex and other enterprises of ...
Ford is planning to invest £24m at its Bridgend engine plant in Wales for manufacturing the new 1.5L EcoBoost gasoline engine. Additionally, Welsh Government has supported Ford's investment by offering £12m in non repayable ...
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The Norwegian Competition authority has approved Orkla's purchase of 90.11% of the shares in food firm Rieber & Son. The acquisition is expected to be completed within a week. The approval of the Norwegian competition authorities ...
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According to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel), in March this year the crude steel output of 63 countries surveyed across the globe reached 134.9 million mt, increasing by one percent compared to March 2012 and up 3.5 percent ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's coking coal imports amounted to 2.02 million mt, down 21.4 percent year on year and increasing by 1.8 percent compared to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Over 10,000 visitors headed to Toys & Kids Russia last month, an increase of 11.6 per cent over 2012. The show - which ran from March 13th to 15th at the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Centre in Moscow - attracted 10,090 trade ...
Tags: Toys