Production of the Mini Countryman will begin in India later this year, marking the first time the BMW-owned British brand has manufactured vehicles outside Europe. The Mini One Countryman and Cooper D Countryman will be the first models ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
Australia's third-biggest iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (Fortescue) has announced its operating results for the first quarter of 2013. Fortescue said in its statement that its total iron ore shipments during the March ...
Tags: Fortescue, Improved Iron Ore
A SHETLAND recycling project hopes to increase its capacity by 500 per cent thanks to two £70,000 grants from Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LEADER. Enviroglass, operated by Shetland Amenity Trust, is the only glass recycling ...
Tags: Recycled Glass Boost, Glass
For hundreds of years, fine woodwork was associated with doing the job by hand. Intricate picture frames, exquisite furniture details, and ornamental wall medallions required hours of painstaking labor. But how intricate woodwork was ...
At the SNEC’s International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition (SNEC PV Power EXPO 2013) in Shanghai, China (13-16 May), Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany outlined how it is able to provide all ...
Tags: Solar Panel Production, Electrical
MOVCD vendors US-based Veeco Instruments and Germany-based Aixtron SE have lowered quotes in the China market from about US$2 million to about US$1.4 million for a single-wafer MOCVD set and by 30-40% for a multi-wafer model mainly because ...
Tags: LED makers, LED production, LED
The all-new Jaguar F-Type roadster will be a low-volume model for the British luxury marque despite the growing interest it has generated due to the complex manufacturing process of its single-piece aluminium bonnet. Another constraint on ...
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Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that it has signed a contract with Turkish steelmaker Yolbulan Bastug Metalurji regarding the supply of a rolling mill with an annual round bar and rebar production capacity of 830,000 mt. CVS ...
Russia's second largest coking coal producer Raspadskaya has stated that in the first quarter of the current year its sales of coal concentrate increased by 49 percent year on year to 1.4 million mt, while its sales of run-of-mine coal ...
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steel producer Shagang Group has announced that it has transferred a 38.96 percent stake in Shandong Tiexiong Xinsha Energy Co., Ltd to Chinese metallurgical coke producer Shandong Coking Group Co., Ltd. ...
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Recently, Baosteel 1420 tin production line celebrates its 15th anniversary. Today, with first ranking in domestic market share and wide approval by overseas users, Baosteel 1420 tinned products prove to the world that Baosteel is equipped ...
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Japanese tire maker Bridgestone will construct a new passenger car radial tire manufacturing facility in Russia. The plant will be located in the Zavolzhye Industrial Zone in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia and will be managed by the Bridgestone ...
China's imports of thermal coal could contract in 2013 as demand growth in the seaborne market is expected to moderate to 2% over the next four years, Goldman Sachs warned in a research note on Friday. "We believe 2013 will represent a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Chemicals
Switzerland-based ingredients firm Givaudan has broken ground on a CHF50m ($53.8m) savory flavors manufacturing facility in Nantong, China. The new facility is expected to significantly increase Givaudan's current savory production ...
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The European Commission (EC) has approved the FrieslandCampina's acquisition of cheese specialist Zijerveld and its packaging unit Den Hollander Food from MYWO Food. On 7 January, FrieslandCampina agreed to acquire the two companies and ...