(Nigeria) -- Nigeria’s Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, has disclosed that a new policy will soon be effected as part of the country’s cement sector’s Backward Integration Policy (BIP). According to ...
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In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
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A Penn Township industrial glass manufacturer has continued to grow over the past decade, even as many of the region's once-plentiful glass companies closed up shop in the face of foreign competition. Chromaglass Inc. last month started ...
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A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) has supplied Brand Pilot Limited, a strategic marketing consultancy based in Oxford, UK, with a complete touring audio and lighting solution for the promotional stand used at race circuits across the UK ...
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BEAVERTON, OR (BRAIN) — Yakima Products Inc. has Sandi Lennehan to chief financial officer. Lennehan has been with Yakima since 2002 in a variety of financial roles. Most recently, she was vice president of finance and corporate ...
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At the SteelOrbis Fall'11 Conference&65th IREPAS Meeting held in St.Petersburg on September 25-27,the ChermetServis Snabzenie General Manager Sergey Labintsev made statements about the company and the scrap market in Russia. Can you ...
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Sergei Kuznetsov has been CEO of both Severstal International and Severstal North America since July 2009.He joined Severstal in 2002 to head the business planning group created to acquire foreign assets and develop international ...
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The code of practice for emergency lighting,BS 5266-1 was revised and then reissued in November 2011.To help installers and specifiers keep up with these requirements,Prysmian has published a guide,the latest in its series of FP guides to ...
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Cement manufacturers have hit back at Ibeto Cement Company over its resolve to continue to import cement into Nigeria, despite the capacity of local manufacturers to meet demand. A statement by Dangote Cement s head of corporate ...
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PTI quoted Directorate General of Shipping saying that private sector shipping company Pratibha Shipping, which has a fleet of nine oil tankers, is planning to either sell or scrap 5 vessels due to financial crunch. A DGS statement said ...
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Baltimore Business Journal reported that the odds that Maryland’s manufacturing industry will grow significantly in 2013 are slim, industry leaders say. But there is good chance the state can use next year to take strides toward ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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Business Standard reported that with the conventional energy projects unable to address the power crisis, 2012 saw the emergence of renewable energy in a big way. The state government announced a new solar policy with a target to set up ...
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Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Vyatta develops an open source network operating system that is relevant for multiple ...
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