A fall in production has hit half-year profits at UK-listed palm oil processor New Britain Palm Oil. CEO Nick Thompson said heavy rain made it harder to collect and transport fresh fruit bunches. The wet weather also meant the fruit ...
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Highlands Pacific has announced that the USD 1.5 billion Ramu Nickel Cobalt Mine has recently completed loading its maiden shipment of mixed nickel cobalt hydroxide intermediate product from the Basamuk process plant in Papua New Guinea. ...
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Majestic Seafoods, the joint venture between Frabelle Fishing, Century Canning and Thailand's Thai Union, is set to establish $37.6m tuna cannery in Papua New Guinea. The 200-ton capacity canning plant will initially create 2,000 new ...
Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ), the bottler and distributor of soft drinks has invested $35m to upgrade its manufacturing facility at Auckland and installed two beverage bottle production lines using blow-fill technology and a new ...
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Highlands Pacific has announced that the USD 1.5 billion Ramu Nickel Cobalt Mine has recently completed loading its maiden shipment of mixed nickel cobalt hydroxide intermediate product from the Basamuk process plant in Papua New Guinea. ...
In what's been a busy Parliamentary week, Australian MPs have been debating legislation which would prohibit the import of timber that's been illegally logged and impose significant fines on anyone bringing it in. Timber products from ...
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Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
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Forest clearance on disputed land-leases in Papua New Guinea is likely to continue at record levels for the next five to six years, according to the organisation which represents logging companies. In 2011, logging on Special Agricultural ...
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China s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) has continued its plans for international expansion by expressing its intention to invest US$200 million in a new cement plant in Indonesia. The cement plant would be based in the ...
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A new report by Australian scientists has made a dire prediction for the future of Asian forests. The report is by the Canberra-based C-S-I-R-O and the United Nations Environment Programme. It's found that if current rates of logging ...
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For those lucky enough to have attended the Cemtech Asia in Bali last week, the presence of a high-ranking delegation from Conch Cement, China may have set some thoughts in motion as to the future direction of China's No 1 cement producer. ...
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