Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp announced that it reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn in mid-November in connection with a price-fixing cartel. ThyssenKrupp has agreed to pay damages to the German rail operator. According to ...
Tags: Cartel Case, Mineral
German steel giant ThyssenKrupp has announced the postponement of the publishing of its annual financial results since it is in exclusive negotiations on the possible sale of its US steel plant. The company stated that the negotiations ...
Tags: Steel Mill, Mineral
Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal's Romanian unit ArcelorMittal Galati has announced that it has invested €2 million in the complete modernization of the grinding machine in its plate mill No. 2, aimed at increasing product quality and ...
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Economic growth will slow significantly in 2014 in both industrialized nations and emerging markets. Germany's GDP is expected to grow by just 1%. The Chinese economy will also cool down significantly after years of double-digit growth: ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen Group plans to invest EUR84.2bn in its Automotive Division over the coming five years, for new models, environmentally friendly technologies and production facilities. This investment is part of the group's ...
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Robin, one of the most famous brands within the UK electrical testing arena and now partnered with Amprobe, is offering a new, lightweight Portable Appliance (PAT) Tester. The easy-to-use Robin-Amprobe GT-400-UK PAT Tester has been ...
Tags: lightweight, portable, PAT, tester, Robin-Amprobe
As reported by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the total price-adjusted value of new orders received by building construction and civil and underground engineering enterprises in Germany increased by 5.6 percent in ...
Tags: Construction
German auto giants Volkswagen AG, BMW and Daimler see China's future as being electric - encouraged by generous government subsidies - but that bet puts them at odds with some of their Asian rivals. While the Europeans were heralding the ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
Since 1st November Friedrich Barth new Managing Director of German Water Partnership (GWP) in the GWP office in Berlin. For more than twenty years Friedrich Barth has been working for public and private organisations in the policy fields ...
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NOV Mono has entered into a new working partnership to expand the levels of support and service it delivers to water and wastewater customers in Germany. Under the new agreement, Wrdig Pumpentechnik will provide sales and service support ...
Tags: NOV, mono, German, partnership, network
The US National Security Agency (NSA) propagated malware around the world in a bid to infiltrate and compromise more than 50,000 networks. The claim is the latest in the Edward Snowden disclosures and published in the German newspaper ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Monday, Nov 25, 2013 The largest oilfield in the USA south of Canada is said to be the East Texas Oilfield. (The largest oilfield in the USA is Prudho Bay in Alaska).Since I began my research on oil in 2003 my mental image of the East Texas ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
The Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG concept has been unveiled at the Los Angeles auto show, previewing the production crossover expected next year. A high-performance concept version of the GLA revealed in August, the Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG ...
Surprising, individualistic and forward-looking: The forthcoming Heimtextil exhibition (8 to 11 January 2014) is set to feature refreshingly inspiring and innovative textile developments, presented by young companies. This international ...
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German automotive parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is set to sell its South African subsidiary Auto Industrial Brake & Chassis Holding Johannesburg (AIBC) to Investor Trinitas. AIBC contains a forge and a foundry and produces components ...
Tags: Aibc Business, Investor Trinitas