Taiwan citizens could soon see a jump in electricity costs as the country faces energy shortages. Anti-nuclear sentiment is gaining momentum in the country as construction for Taiwan’s controversial fourth nuclear power plants nears ...
Tags: Energy Saving, Electricity Costs
This initiative, which will restore rainforest four times the size of the Lake District, has been developed with input from stakeholders including WWF, Greenpeace and NGO members of APP's Solutions Working Group. The commitment takes the ...
Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that its Russia-based Chusovoy Steel Works (ChSW) stopped producing steel through its open-hearth furnaces on March 31. The halt of the last open-hearth furnace ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, pipe
Japan's industrial production index in February fell 2.3 percent from the previous month, marking the first decrease in three months partly because automakers had to halt factory operations amid heavy snowfall in the month, government data ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Economy, Manufacturing
Pilbara Minerals ASX: PLS is heading to market with a capital raising, with the ASX granting the company a trading halt this morning. PLS shares are now in pre-open. The company recently completed its Feasibility Study on the Tabba Tabba ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
East China's ferrous scrap prices fell sharply this week amid weaker raw material, finished steel and steel futures markets in the first-half of the week. Platts assessed heavy scrap over 6 mm at Yuan 2,320/mt ($377/mt) on a delivered ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Raw Material, Steel Markets
Two lots of Pfizer's antidepressant drug Effexor XR (venlafaxine HCl) are being recalled because they may contain capsules of another drug called Tikosyn (dofetilide), which is used to treat heart rhythm disorders. The recall also ...
Tags: recall, potentially fatal consequences, abnormal heartbeat
American automaker Ford Motor is set to invest $168m in moving the production of its all-new 2016 F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks from Mexico to Ohio Assembly Plant in Cleveland from early 2015. The investment will be used to retool ...
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Australia's IMX Resources said Monday it will end iron ore shipments from its Cairn Hill mine in South Australia over October-December, a quarter earlier than expected. The company said it moved up the timing from January-March 2015 after ...
Jiangxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Fangda Special Steel has announced its preliminary plans to carry out 40-day maintenance work on its 450 m3 blast furnace No. 3 from March 15. The production halt during the maintenance work is ...
A new study describes the complexity of the new T cell repertoire following immune-depleting therapy to treat multiple sclerosis, improving our understanding of immune tolerance and clinical outcomes. In the Immune Tolerance Network's ...
Tags: Immune System Reconstitutes Itself, Immune-Depleting Therapy
Japanese automaker Honda Motor is set to stop the production of its hybrid vehicle, Honda Insight, due to declining sales. Earlier in November 2013, the carmaker announced that it will discontinue the production of Insight in February ...
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Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
Tags: Grid Spending, digital smart meter, GTM, BNEF
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
Tags: Toyota, Software Flaw, Prius software