“The Mumbai textile strike of 1984 led by the trade union leader – Datta Samant was the turning point as well as a decisive year for the Indian textile industry”, says Mr Arvind Somany - Managing Director of Ahmedabad ...
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A rugged server from NCS Technologies introduced on Friday can withstand drops, will work in extreme temperatures and can be deployed via parachute into crisis areas or war zones if needed. The Bunker XRV-5241 is a 1U rack server designed ...
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Russia-based TMK, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, has run its casing pipes with ТМК PF premium connections in the onshore and offshore parts of the well at the ...
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China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
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Solar heat utilization has seen rapid development around the world by virtue of easy realizability, with the growing scale of application, especially in China whose solar water heater production has risen to 63.9 million square meters in ...
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a wire rod outlet for the special steel rolling mill of Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shenyuan Special Steel. The mill has an annual production capacity of more than ...
Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that new end-forging equipment has been installed with an investment of approximately INR 455.4 million ($8.5 million) at its Bhilai steel plant's rail ...
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On January 23, British Columbia’s energy, mines and natural gas minister, Rich Coleman, released the following opinion editorial on helping customers understand the benefits of smart meters: I am writing to assure your ...
The Valspar Corporation has been selected as the major supplier of concrete reinforcing steel coatings for the Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge in China. When completed in 2016, the length of the bridge will span nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) ...
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Handheld Group, a manufacturer of rugged mobile computers, PDAs and smartphones, today announced the launch of the new version of its highly popular Algiz XRW rugged notebook. The updated Algiz XRW is considerably faster than its ...
The electrical grid transformation to the Smart Grid puts tremendous reliance on wired and wireless networks to deliver situational awareness of grid operations. These communications networks enhance and optimize utility management of grid ...
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Prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub rose Wednesday morning as demand exceeded expectations and the market sought to maintain a premium to Continental prices in order to secure supply, a market source said. At 1200 GMT, the ...
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Muratec (Booth 3208) introduced new automated storage and AGV products at ProMat. The FX Quad is a high-speed mini-load automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) crane capable of handling one, two and four cases at a time. Designed to ...
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Cheaper electricity prices could be on the way. Genesis Energy is trialling smart meters in 300,000 houses, to record electricity consumption by the half hour. Newstalk ZB business correspondent Roger Kerr says it could eventually lead ...
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In recent years, Baosteel increases input in material development and application and fully supports national energy strategy engineering and automobile industry development. On January 18, at 2012 National Science and Technology Awards ...
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