While solar power,wind power and tidal power grab the daily headlines,a vastly different green energy technology is quietly making real progress across the globe. Anaerobic waste water digestion technologies respond not only to industry's ...
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According to latest data released by the Ministry of Railways, China's railway fixed asset investment totaled CNY 425.2 billion in the first ten months of this year, 0.89% lower than the same period of 2011. But investment grew fast in ...
Tags: investment plan, railway infrastructure projects, demand for steel
Reuters reported that government infrastructure spending should help Zambia's economy grow faster over the next 2 years providing copper prices do not fall. Median forecasts from last week's survey of 13 economists show Africa's top ...
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A new food park has been opened in Chittoor,Andhra Pradesh,India,with an investment of INR1.5bn($26.78m). Srini Food Park,which is one of India's largest integrated food parks,has been built under the union food processing ministry ...
XINHUA reported that China's economic growth will pick up in the fourth quarter after slowing for seven consecutive quarters, due to booming domestic consumption and increasing infrastructure investment. According to the report released ...
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China's railway infrastructure investment is set to reach a new high next year, with an estimated investment value of more than 516 billion yuan ($82.66 billion). Both the investment and operation mileage will exceed those of this year, ...
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Sephaku Cement, the first indigenous player in South Africa’s cement industry of over 70 years, has signed up 1.95 billion rand ($222 million) of domestic debt funding for its 3.4 billion rand ($390 million) cement plant and clinker ...
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Sales of industrial pumps will exceed $38 billion in 2013 according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. Thirty-two percent of the market next year will be in East Asia. China will spend more ...
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NEMA's Lighting Systems Index has shown a positive performance in the first half of 2012, as it gained 2.9 percent on a quarter-to-quarter basis from the first to second quarters of 2012. On a year-over-year basis the index increased by 6.6 ...
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Ten cities in the UK are to receive £114m for broadband of 80-100Mbps and wireless internet access, as part of government plans to improve connectivity across the nation. The total sum allocated to the 10 cities is £14m more ...
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IT company iCity has been selected as preferred bidder to turn the Olympics media centre into a datacentre. The company had been tipped to win the bid to transform the 350m pound Olympics media centre into a datacentre after the London ...
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In the first half of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled the ...
Tags: GDP, grain, ork, beef, mutton, poultry, Industrial Production
Optics bellwether compensates for semiconductor market weakness with rapid growth in Asia. The Carl Zeiss Group is on course for another strong financial year,despite the negative impact of the current slump in the semiconductor ...
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Sany Group Co. (SANYIZ), owner of China’s biggest machinery maker, said its sales growth rate may slow by about half to 25 percent as the economy decelerates. Sales may exceed 100 billion yuan ($16 billion) in 2012, up from 80 billion ...
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co. Said slower expansion in China's demand for cranes and excavators will carry on next year because of waning economic growth and cutbacks in railway building. "Demand for construction ...