Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it is targeting $3 billion in savings by the end of 2015, by improving the reliability and productivity of its blast furnaces and cutting fuel costs. The steelmaker stated that the asset ...
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Photo courtesy of the ABC. The Qantas Group has announced statutory profit after tax of $111 million and underlying profit before tax of $223 million for the six months ended 31 December 2012. This includes $125 ...
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Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
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Two thirds of car buyers expect their next model to provide much or somewhat better fuel economy, based on the latest survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. And it turns out fuel prices aren't the only key motivator. ...
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Cape Breton is now “well-positioned to be a leader” in biomass energy with the announcement today that the Harbourside biomass plant in Sydney is proceeding to the next phase in the Community Feed-in Tariff program (COMFIT). ...
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India Ratings’ outlook for cotton textiles remains negative to stable for 2013 on account of subdued demand, although margins are expected to benefit from softening raw material prices. The outlook for synthetic textiles remains ...
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TomTom has collaborated with LoJack to offer fleet telematics that allow users to operate their vehicle and/or heavy equipment fleet(s) more profitably, while offering enahnced asset protection. As part of the deal, LoJack will market, ...
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Engineered specifically to eliminate the void created by using standard corrugated boxes to pack products destined for individual consumers, Packsize International’s (Booth 2344) compact iQ FUSION corrugated converting machine ...
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Inflation in the UK held at 2.7 per cent for the third consecutive month in December, in line with forecasts, as a result of a rise in gas and electricity bills. Indeed, figures compiled by the Office for National Statistics found that ...
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New figures compiled by Saga has shown that the UK's 12.85 million pensioners spent as much as£17.4 billion on electricity and fuel bills in 2012 alone. The average yearly spend on fuel bills for the over 65s in the past year ...
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Hai Kwang Enterprise, one of the major rebar manufacturers in Southern Taiwan, said that it planned to build up a new steel rolling plant at the nearby place of the mill's current location, aiming to cost down and increase its market ...
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Almost every house in the vicinity of an iron ore mine in Goa's Sanguem, Sattari and Bicholim talukas is likely to have a 10 tonne tipper truck parked in its backyard. Some have 2, 3 or even 4 trucks parked. In all, there were about 25,000 ...
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My Solar Port launching nationally in 2013 is a solar car port that produces sustainable energy. The oak-framed carport, which also houses a charging point for electric vehicles, offers an alternative energy source for the home and is a ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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The probability of natural gas arriving from the Tamar field in May 2013 is very high but if technical problems force disruption to supplies Israel will be worse off than in the past year, the chairman of Israel Electric Corp. said Tuesday. ...