North Carolina governor Pat McCrory has sanctioned a $12m grant to help Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton adhere to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) guidelines. The mill has been asked by the EPA to replace units that ...
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According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in August this year the country's crude steel production was down two percent month on month and decreased by 2.4 percent year on year, amounting to 467,400 metric tons. ...
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International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that the outlook for the European steel industry will remain stable until 2015, despite anticipated capacity utilization and profitability improvements. According to Moody's report, ...
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COLUMBUS, IN — The heavy-duty truck market is adopting natural gas at a slower rate than predicted, according to a report from ACT Research. Natural-gas-powered truck sales grew at about the same rate as the truck market as a whole ...
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HONOLULU – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an order requiring the County of Hawaii to repair the Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant’s ocean outfall pipe. The pipe is leaking treated wastewater close to shore, ...
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The general trend in the German cotton market remained unchanged during the week. Purchasers enjoyed closing contracts at potentially lower quotations of the new crop, the latest Bremen Cotton Exchange report reveals. Thus, industry and ...
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China's manufacturing sector expanded in August but at a significantly slower pace, as production rates and new orders softened. The Flash China Manufacturing PMI, published by HSBC in conjunction with Markit Economics, fell 1.4 points to ...
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The China government will prohibit the sale and export of 60W or above incandescent light bulbs beginning October 1, according to s China-based Beijing Morning Post report. A few 60W incandescent light bulbs are available for sale at ...
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DOE has published a new report forecasting the energy savings of LED white-light sources compared with conventional white-light sources. The sixth iteration of the Energy Savings Forecast of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination ...
Annual inflation in the euro area was 0.4 percent in August this year, unchanged compared to July, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In August 2013, the annual inflation rate was ...
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As expected, the U.S. corn and soybean crop condition ratings have been left unchanged from a week ago, according to the USDA Crop Progress Report Monday. For corn, the USDA rated the crop as 74% good/excellent, equal to a week ago and ...
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BERLIN— CoreNet Global EMEA Summit –The emergence and adoption of new technologies, including 3D printing, Collaborative Robots and Big-Data, are now the driving forces in global manufacturing, according to new research launched ...
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Lead times and prices in the electronics components industry saw a little more movement in September than in prior months, according to Avnet’s latest Market & Technology Trends report. Pricing of analog components, discretes, logic ...
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Rencently, C&C Truck secured big order of 100 units heavy truck from Iran. This order need higher standard than the former order which not only Not only need to meet the 32 ECE European standards, but also need to comply with EU standards ...
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Chinese Sporting Goods Market could accelerate with a professional approach, according to a report released last week by the Social Sciences Academic Press and Beijing Sports College. During the first nine months of 2013, it said ...