Industries are flourishing everywhere and have immensely contributed to robust infrastructure. This advancement, however, has increased the demand for safe work environment in work place. Most workers get injured while lifting and carrying ...
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
Jouf Cement Company has announced that it has halted work on its furnace and mills due to "unscheduled" maintenance works. The firm said that the plant stopped last Wednesday and is likely to remain out of action until 5th October. It ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Iraq has banned imports of Iranian white cement from the Iranian border towns of Shalamcheh and Chazabeh, according to Sadeq Sava edi, the deputy head of Khuzestan s Cement Exporters Union. Iraq is still importing grey cement and other ...
Tags: Construction, white cement
PT Semen Indonesia (Pesero) Tbk is establishing a packing plant in Banjarmasin, Indonesia. The company has reported that the facility was 90% complete as of August 2013. It is expected to begin operating in 4Q13. Rp120 billion has been ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, cement, Construction
China has rich waste heat resources. Especially in steel, nonferrous, chemical, cement, building materials, oil & petrochemical, light industry, coal and other sectors, waste heat resources approximately occupy 17%-67% of the total fuel ...
Tags: Waste Heat Utilization Equipment, Industrial Equipment, Components
Seeking out unique products in the ceramic and stone arena that it can bring to market is a core value of The Tile Doctor. Curt Rapp, founder and CEO, says his job is to pursue innovative technology that has the potential of bringing change ...
Tags: Construction, Tile
US-based Crosstrees Medical has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Crosstrees PVA pod system for percutaneous vertebral augmentation (PVA). The FDA approval for the CE marked Crosstrees PVA pod ...
Within a couple of years, researchers at the University of Southern California believe 3D printing techniques will be used to construct entire buildings in less than a day. As outrageous as it sounds, such machines can already extrude ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Domestic cement sales in Indonesia fell 5.8% y/y to 3.3 million t in August 2013. Cement sales fell a more drastic 32% month-on-month, but it should be noted that a two-week holiday in August following Ramadan would have significantly ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Sales of the equipment and consumables to control air pollution in the US will rise at seven percent per year over the next four years to reach just under US$9 billion in 2017. This is the latest forecast in Air Pollution Management ...
Tags: Air Pollution
BASF opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Kazan, Russia. Together with the facility inaugurated in Podolsk near Moscow in 2012, BASF now supplies the Russian construction sector with a broad range of concrete admixtures ...
Tags: BASF, Concrete Admixtures
Systems giant IBM is to open its wallet and write out another $1bn cheque to support the development of open source operating system Linux in an era of cloud computing and big data. The investment was announced at LinuxCon North America ...
Tags: Cloud Computing, Computer Products, IBM
China on Monday unveiled a list of 58 companies that should cut their excess production capacity by the end of the year as a part of the country's economic restructuring drive. The enterprises are from 13 industries with overcapacity, ...
Tags: Production Cuts, overcapacity
BEIJING-Signs of more appetite in China for steel and other materials and equipment used in construction add to evidence of an economic rebound, but one driven by a return to ramped-up spending on infrastructure and heavy industry the ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy