National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC) was said to convene several meetings to discuss the possibility to withdraw natural gas pipeline business from PetroChina (SHSE:601857) with a purpose to further rationalize the ...
Tags: Gas, Gas Pipeline, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
August crude steel production by the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 130.4 million mt, down 1.1% on a revised July total of 131.9 million mt and up 5.2% year on year, the WSA said Friday. August's output, which ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
ASOS reported financial results for the three months period ending 31 August 2013: Q4 Highlights: -Retail sales +47% year on year (UK +49%, International +47%) -International retail sales 64% of total (65% last year) -Retail gross ...
Tags: Fashion Retailer, Apparel
Toyota Argentina (TASA), a vehicle production and sales subsidiary of Japanese automaker Toyota Motors (TMC), is set to invest $800m to increase the annual production capacity of its Zarate Plant from the current 92,000 units to 140,000 ...
Tags: Transportation, auto
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
Tags: Chemicals, titanium dioxide
US agribusiness company Cargill has started construction of a new $200m sunflower oil crush facility in the Volgograd region of southern Russia. Expected to be operational in time for the 2015 harvest, the facility will process up to ...
Tags: Sunflower Oil, Agriculture, Food
Faurecia, a French automotive components producer, has received EUR122.5m loan from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to support its expansion plans. As part of its capital expenditure plan, the company will use this ...
Tags: car, auto, Transportation
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia (TMMR) has announced plans to start the production of its current generation Toyota RAV4 model at its manufacturing facility in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 2016. The production of this new model will ...
Environment secretary Owen Paterson has succeeded in his mission to persuade Russian authorities to sign an export deal for British beef and lamb, expected to be worth £100M over the next three years. The DEFRA boss has signed a ...
Tags: Beef, Agriculture, Food
Conestoga Meat Packers, a Breslau, Ontario-based pork processor, is set to boost production capacity of its facility in the Kitchener-Waterloo region by one-third, while creating 100 new jobs. The company will invest more than C$14m ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, meat packaging
The imports made by the Russian Federation in August 2013 under the textiles and footwear category increased by 9.9 percent month-on-month to US$ 1.85 billion, according to the data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia, portnews.ru ...
Tags: Textile
The Russia's Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks has issued a patent to Israel-based Oramed Pharmaceuticals related to methods and compositions for oral administration of proteins. The patent titled "Methods ...
BASF opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Kazan, Russia. Together with the facility inaugurated in Podolsk near Moscow in 2012, BASF now supplies the Russian construction sector with a broad range of concrete admixtures ...
Tags: BASF, Concrete Admixtures
Russia's rolled steel product output totaled 38.6 million tons in the first eight months of this year, down by 2.5% year on year, according to data released by the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In the given period of time, ...
Tags: Roll Steel, steel, Construction
SAP is to circumvent any spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in Brazil by building data centres in the South American country. In documents aired by Brazil's biggest television network, Globo, the NSA had a presentation dated ...
Tags: Computer Products, software