The International Monetary Fund has lowered its oil price forecasts to $100.09/barrel in 2013 and $95.36/b in 2014. In April, the IMF forecast that oil prices would average $102.60/b this year and fall back to $97.58/b in 2014. However, ...
The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has taken a stance against a Metrolinx plan that would regionally raise diesel taxes by five cents per litre, with funds going towards transit initiatives in the Toronto and Hamilton areas. "The ...
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The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has said it is against the proposed use of a new diesel fuel tax hike. The OTA is also trying to bring certain truck licensing exemptions to the forefront of the provincial transportation discussion. ...
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A new transportation plan is calling for fuel tax hikes and other levies in order to put $20 billion towards transit funding in southern Ontario. While the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) is supportive of the province's focus on ...
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Coca-Cola and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have announced expanded partnership and new environmental goals, which focus on sustainable management of the firm’s packaging use through 2020. As part of the new sustainability goals, ...
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American high-performance vehicle manufacturer Saleen Automotive has officially unveiled its latest offering: the Saleen 351 Mustang. Armed with a 5.75-litre (351 cubic inch) supercharged V8 that makes 522kW and a ground-pounding 887Nm of ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that the University of Wroclaw in Poland has started-up a 3x2-inch Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD system to create optoelectronic devices, in particular ...
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Private equity firm India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) has agreed to invest $40m in India-based ingredients firm Vallabhdas Kanji (VKL Seasoning) to support the next phase of growth of ingredient firm as it makes transition as a value-added ...
Cha Bio&Diostech, a South Korean partner of Pluristem Therapeutics, has filed its first investigational new drug (IND) application for Pluristem’s PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells with the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA). ...
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The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers' Association (ASCER) is launching the twelfth edition of the Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design. The total prize fund is 39,000 Euros for three categories: Architecture, Interior ...
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, made net investments of S$4 billion ($3.16 billion) in its energy and resources portfolio in the year to March 31, the fund said Thursday. The new investments included acquiring an additional 5% ...
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Utilities, has signed an agreement to invest NOK30 million (approximately S$6.4 million) in Biowater Technology (Biowater), a Norwegian-based company that ...
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In partnership with contract microelectronic and optoelectronic packaging design & assembly firm Optocap Ltd of Livingston, Scotland, UK, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, UK says that the first commercial order for its ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, a maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, which it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has signed an agreement with a private ...
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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has announced two funding opportunities relating to solid-state lighting. Both opportunities seek proposals for “transformational advances in ...
Tags: Solid-state lighting, LEDs, ARPA-E