Ukraine's largest pipe manufacturer Interpipe started producing steel billets in 2012, a new achievement on its way to vertical integration. Duncan Pell, Interpipe's sales director for the Middle East and North Africa, explained Interpipe's ...
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Toyota Australia last month recorded its second highest monthly export figures for the 2012/13 financial year. A total of 7,383 Camry, Camry Hybrid and Aurion vehicles were exported during the month of March. Of these about 97 per ...
Toyota Australia has released export figures for its locally built Toyota Camry and Toyota Aurion models, showing that 70 per cent of its Australian made range have been exported to the end of the company's financial year on March 31. ...
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Mr. Sanjay Mehta, Chief Executive Officer of Al Nasser Industrial Enterprises LLC, the biggest trading company in the UAE, evaluated the current situation in the UAE rebar market for SteelOrbis. What can you tell us about the current ...
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UAE based Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) has inked a deal to launch US’s leading fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch’s brand by 2014. Following the deal, MAF would open the US brand’s first outlet in Dubai next year. ...
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Sundeep Rao, director of Oman-based Sohar Steel, which produces rebars, coated rebars and weld mesh, has answered SteelOrbis' questions regarding the market outlook and Sohar Steel's operations. What is the situation regarding Sohar ...
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Lanxess, a Germany-based speciality chemicals group, is planning many chemical production projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Lanxess vice president and managing director Elie Saad was quoted by MEED as saying that the ...
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REDTAG, the leading value fashion and home stores chain in GCC, announced that it has launched 'rt rewards,' its first ever loyalty program, leveraging Capillary Technologies' cloud-based suite of Intelligent Customer Engagement Solutions. ...
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Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors for Neutrik across the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait) as well as Iraq and Iran have recently supplied Dubai based production company Eclipse with OpticalCON ...
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The Gulf Insurance Federation has approved a preliminary draft to launch a single motor insurance policy in the GCC region, which is expected to be introduced before the end of 2013. The technical committee of the federation head Mohamed ...
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The Seagate Wireless Plus Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the Central. The Wireless Plus can be considered a successor to the Seagate GoFlex ...
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The Boston Viridis ARM based servers will use the Breeze tool of Cambridge software company Ellexus to migrate x86 applications to ARM. "Our software, Breeze is being promoted by Boston and ARM as a tool to ease the migration from x86 to ...
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Emirates Steel (ESI) will increase the output at its heavy sections mill from 25,000-30,000 tons to 45,000-50,000 tons per month in the second quarter of this year. The company will aim the construction projects in the Gulf Cooperation ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2013 Spring Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting taking place in Doha on March 3-5, Juma Al Mansouri from Emirates Steel said that the UAE is seeking to transform its oil-dependent economy by spending billions of ...
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Michael Setterdahl from Nucor, chairman of the traders' committee at the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, stated that it was the view of traders' committee that customers worldwide currently ...
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