The Wolseley group will probably complete the restructuring of its operations in France at the beginning of 2014. According to information provided in even more detail in the business report for the whole of 2012/2013 (1 July), 109 French ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
China Nonferrous Metal, or NFC, announced plans Thursday to build an 8 million mt/year lead and zinc project in North Sumatra, Indonesia, with Russia's Metals of Eastern Siberia Corp., or MBC. "On October 22, NFC and MBC inked the Dairi ...
Tags: Zinc Project, Nonferrous Metal
Danish engineering firm FL Smidth has confirmed reports in Qatari media that it is in talks to supply Qatari Investors Group with equipment and machinery to build a new cement plant to boost capacity in the region. However, the firm added ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Cement
Colombian mining and energy minister Amylkar Acosta shows that Colombia is in in-depth talks with a Chinese company on building a railway leading to Pacific coastal region so as to lower costs of exporting coal to Asia. The minister says ...
Tags: Railway Construction, coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Business owners shouldn't wait until they have to sell their business to begin the planning process, otherwise they'll "lose control of the process." Mike McCarron, M&A consultant with Wheels Group imparted that advice and more during a ...
Tags: tyre, tire, Auto Parts
Fourth-quarter contract price negotiations in the European caustic soda market have concluded at rollover to Eur15/mt price decreases, depending on the region and customer size, market sources said Monday. Most Q4 contracts were settled ...
Tags: Caustic Soda, Chemicals
African Glass (Nigeria) Ltd today announced the planned expansion of its glass operations in Nigeria. The sole producer of opaque glass in Nigeria intends to set up a state of the art float glass plant. The plant will have a capacity of 500 ...
Tags: African Glass, Glass Industry
South Africa's financial services group Sanlam Emerging Markets (SEM) in engaged in negotiations with Nico Holdings, to acquire 49% stake in the general insurance operations in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Financial terms of the ...
Tags: General Insurance
India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma raised the issue of restrictive regime on imports of textiles, during a meeting with Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan. Mr. Sharma was accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan ...
Tags: Concern, Textile Import Policy
The exports of garments and textiles from Vietnam increased by 18 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of the current year to US$ 13.154 billion, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Of this, the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, fabric exports
Blue Competition Cycles' office outside of Atlanta has been closed for about two weeks and negotiations continue to sell the dormant brand, the company's former CEO told BRAIN. Blue's founders sold the company to a private equity firm ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Last week's flat-rolled price hikes appear to be having difficulty gaining traction, particularly in the southern US, buyers said Thursday. "Nothing has changed," said one service center executive in the South. "I don't know, it's going ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, flat-rolled price
EU local and regional authorities want the EU "to urgently introduce mandatory environmental impact assessments for all shale gas and oil projects," the EU Committee of the Regions said Thursday. The committee is the EU's assembly of ...
The Astrakhan region located in Southern European Russia will be increasing cotton sowing acreage to 100,000 hectares, in order to produce 200,000 tons of cotton annually, announced the Governor of the region Alexander Zhilkin. ...
Tags: Astrakhan, Cotton Sowing
Linde Hydraulics has symbolically broken ground on the new construction for its main plant in Aschaffenburg. The new complex of buildings will be built on the 70,700 m² site over the next two and a half years: a new production and ...
Tags: Linde Hydraulics, truck