Turkey-based plantmaker CVS Technologies has announced that it has signed a contract with the South African steelmaker Cape Town Iron and Steel Company (CISCO) to upgrade its existing meltshop and rolling mill located in Cape Town. CVS ...
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The revival, reconstruction and modernization of the Angolan textile mill AfricaTextil at Benguela, which began in March 2012, is about 85 percent complete, Koichi Nagashima, the director of studies and projects of the contractor told ...
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The government of Bangladesh has entered into a financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), a unit of World Bank, to establish a food storage facility. As part of the Modern Food Storage Facilities project, ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its fiscal year (FY) 2014 to 2018 Strategic Plan today, which provides a blueprint for advancing EPA's mission to protect public health and the environment across the country. The plan ...
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Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
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The Government of Pakistan would make a comprehensive plan, including both long and short term strategies, for the revival of the textile industry in the country, Abbas Khan Afridi, Federal Minister for Textile Industry has said. ...
Canadian steelmaker Ivaco Rolling Mills announced Monday that it will receive a $7 million loan from the Ontario provincial government to modernize its steel billet and hot-rolled wire rod facility in L’Orignal, Ontario. Plans for ...
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The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement was a movement promoted in Taiwan to undo the cultural destructions caused by the Communist Party of China. Some notable acts of destruction include Cultural ...
Textile giant Mafatlal Industries Limited has plans to further invest in Gujarat units. Mafatlal Industries have till date invested Rs 100 Crores in modernization at Nadiad & Navsari, and now plans for an additional Rs 200 Crores in the ...
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The Government of Karnataka, a state in southern India, through the Department of Handloom and Textiles, has invested Rs. 13 billion under various schemes during the current financial year, reports The Hindu. Addressing a one-day ...
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Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that ArcelorMittal Poland has officially opened its new long rail mill in Dbrowa Górnicza, one of only three sites in the world capable of producing 120 meter rails for the railway ...
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ABB has won an order worth around $60 million from Hydro-Quebec to replace components of its ultra-high voltage transmission system that transports hydroelectric power from North to South Quebec. As part of the order, ABB will upgrade two ...
After settling a dispute about final rule deadlines for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) earlier this week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed another lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – this time ...
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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 ...
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A considerable paradox exists in U.S. food policy. Although the federal government has named food safety as a top priority, an entire pocket of the food industry remains largely unregulated by, or at least largely under the radar of, most ...
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