China could be ready to deploy its proposed embargo on imports of thermal coal with a calorific value of less than 4,540 kcal/kg on a net-as-received basis, and on thermal coal with a sulfur and ash content of more than 1% and 25% ...
Tags: Low CV Coal Imports, Chemicals
Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is all set to close the tablet-packaging plant at its Boronia site in Melbourne's east, Australia, leading to a loss of 120 jobs. According to GSK, continuing challenges in the operating ...
Tags: GSK, Packaging Plant
A new London based system will allow consumers to verify directly with the brand if a product is real or fake before they buy, using their smartphone. The system, called Authicode, can even be set to share details like where and when ...
Tags: Smartphone Apps, Counterfeits, UK
High street baker Greggs has won approval to build a new frozen savouries factory in the Midlands, as the firm pursues its store expansion plan and continues its move into packaged supermarket retail. The UK’s biggest bakery ...
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April 25, 2013 - Ontario's Green Energy Act (GEA) will soon put the province at or near the top of North American electricity costs, concludes a new report from the Fraser Institute, with "serious consequences for the province's economic ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Textiles Ministry of India has called on the domestic cotton yarn producers to maintain the prices of their produce at low levels, so as to avert any negative impact on any of the textile industry segments, particularly the powerloom ...
Tags: Indian Govt, Cotton Yarn
Welsh Country Foods (WCF) is closing its lamb processing business in the Island of Anglesey, UK, with immediate effect, a move which will result in 310 job losses. The plant closure comes after the completion of a 90-day consultation ...
Holden managing director Mike Devereux has cited the decline in Holden Cruze sales as “mostly attributable” to the Adelaide manufacturing job losses announced today. Devereux listed the strength of the Australian dollar, ...
Tags: Holden Cruze, car, Auto
A consortium led by Italian gas network company Snam and including the GIC fund and France's EDF has signed an agreement with Total to buy its TIGF networks and storage business in southwest France, the consortium said in a joint statement ...
Derby-based ethnic food manufacturer S&A Foods plans to make up to 70 of its 500 staff redundant as it restructures its chilled ready meals business. Perween Warsi's firm S&A Foods will be making 70 of its 500 staff redundant The ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
However, the API Foils Europe managing director Will Oldham conceded that the upgrade would result in job losses at the site. The company, which produces decorative foils for high quality packaging, has been finding success in the premium ...
Switzerland-based ingredients firm Givaudan is set to shut down its savory flavor production facility in Merseyside, UK, by the end of this year, a move which is expected to result in more than 150 job losses. The company is shifting most ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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Australian miners Rio Tinto and Xstrata will cut 100 jobs each in their coal divisions, with Xstrata planning to consolidate its New South Wales and Queensland coal divisions, while closing its Brisbane office, according to media reports. ...
The dollar pushed higher but the gaze of traders remained firmly on whether lawmakers in Cyprus can reach a deal on the proposed terms of an international bailout package. As part of a rescue package for Cyprus, European policymakers have ...
Tags: dollar, Aussie dollar, euros