Australian retail distributor Metcash has recorded a drop in first-half earnings as a results of store closures in the period. Earnings in the six months to the end of October dropped 13.1% to A$82m (US$85.4m), the retailer said today (30 ...
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Diamond Foods plans to close its snack manufacturing plant in Indiana, US, a move which will lead to a loss of nearly 100 jobs. The company, which produces Emerald snack nuts and Kettle Chips, gained ownership of the Indiana facility when ...
Germany-based Sanner is launching its latest closure solution for effervescent tablet packaging, the FOSG 27 flip top closure for pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products at CPhI worldwide in Madrid on 9-11 October 2012. Sanner ...
Mr Beni Prasad Verma the minister of steel in a written reply in the Lok Sabha informed that although, progress of each and every steel project is not monitored by the Ministry of Steel, some of the major steel projects where no noticeable ...
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Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors arrested seven people on Monday on suspicion of bribing officials to cover up a health and environmental scandal at Europe's largest steel plant. Noxious emissions and choking fumes from the ILVA ...
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Market participants from Italy believe that the panic on closure of Ilva will spread around all domestic operators including distributors, Steel service centers and rerollers etc. As per some experts, it is difficult to imagine the ...
Gulf News reported that the recently issued World Oil Outlook report by OPEC comes at a time when the oil refining industry is passing through many changes around the world. While the refinery distillation capacity is stagnant in the US, ...
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BBC News reported that Mr Arnaud Montebourg French minister for industrial recovery, accusing the steelmaker of lying and disrespecting the country, has said that ArcelorMittal is no longer welcome in France. Mr Montebourg told French ...
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Sinopec Group has announced closure of two refineries, one of which also has a petrochemical plant, in China’s southern province of Guangdong for checking environmental problems. The two plants – Sinopec Dongxing refinery ...
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Packaging and tubing materials manufacturer Tekni-Plex has announced plans to invest more than $9m in a bid to improve and expand manufacturing infrastructure at its facility in Flemington, New Jersey, US. According to Tekni-Plex, the ...
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US-based designer and manufacturer of plastic bag making machinery, Hudson-Sharp has unveiled its new form of flexible packaging — Rapid Close self-seal bags. Hudson-Sharp said the new self-seal bag design and manufacturing ...
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The Government will be urged to intervene and help 117 workers affected by the closure of TATA steel sites in the Black Country and Staffordshire. The Park Road site in Cradley will be closing down. Gavin Williamson, MP for South ...
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SemiSouth Laboratories Inc of Starkville, MS, USA, which designs and manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) devices for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications, is to close down, according to ...
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Sagent Pharmaceuticals has introduced Acetazolamide for Injection, USP specified for adjunctive treatment of edema due to congestive heart failure, drug-induced edema, centrencephalic epilepsies and chronic simple glaucoma, secondary ...
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Ghana Business reported that Ghana’s mining sector is expected to reach a value of USD 1.83 billion in 2016. The Report by Research Company Research and Markets said that the sector will increase from USD 1.21 billion in 2010 as ...
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