We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
Tags: Copper Mining, Mineral
Red Metal Resources Ltd. (OTCQB:RMES), a mineral exploration company with copper-gold assets in Chile, is pleased to announce that its Chilean subsidiary, Minera Polymet Limitada, ("Polymet") has drilled two holes on its Farellon property. ...
Several Vietnamese manufacturers showing here this week are looking to capture a larger share of business in the U.S. market. Tran Anh Vu, left, Lien Thanh Furniture, and Patrick G. Harvey, Harick PTY Ltd. ?Jeff Dilley, left, Exsero ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
US-based life insurer MetLife has received regulatory approval from Myanmar's Directorate of Investment and Company Administration to set up a representative office in the country. The company will now concentrate on completing the ...
Methanex Corporation has reached a number of key milestones with respect to its near-term capacity growth objectives in New Zealand, Canada and Chile. On October 4, 2013, the company successfully produced its first methanol from the newly ...
Tags: Operating Capacity, Methanex
US-based life insurer MetLife has finalized acquisition of a 64.3% stake of Chilean pension fund administrator, AFP Provida from Spanish bank BBVA, in a deal worth approximately $1.54bn. From the sale of AFP, the Spanish bank received ...
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Torishima Pump Mfg Co Ltd has received an order from Posco Engineering & Construction Co Ltd to supply 14 pumps for the Cochrane Thermoelectric Power Plant in Chile. The order covers six boiler feed pumps, four condensate pumps and four ...
Chilean financial institution CorpGroup is mulling over divestment of its insurance division to a pension fund manager, Inversiones La Construccion (ILC), in a deal worth approximately $165m. The company, which manages CorpBanca, said ...
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has received a Notice to Proceed on a US$103 million contract to build a seawater reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant for industrial use at the Escondida copper mine in Chile. This is the first ...
Airline LAN Colombia on Wednesday carried out the South American country's first biofuel-powered commercial flight, opening a new chapter in its bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The flight, which took some 170 passengers from the ...
The representatives of Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have concluded trade negotiations for Pacific Alliance, at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Pacific Alliance, held in Mexico last month. Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade ...
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The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has expanded the amount of chicken products being recalled by the Chilean Ministry of Health over dioxin contamination concerns. After receiving official ...
Tags: Dioxin Concerns, Chicken Products
Manthan Systems, the global leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions for retailers, announced the go-live of ARC Merchandise Analytics at Ripley Colombia. Ripley Colombia, an operating division of Ripley SA, operates ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA is expected in 2013 to become the first PV engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firm to install 1 gigawatt worth of solar power ...
First Solar is forecast to install 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar or photovoltaic (PV) power systems in 2013, more than double the 516 megawatts (MW) in 2012, according to IMS Research, now part of IHS. This high rate of growth will allow ...
Tags: PV Systems