As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the construction of a total of 239,500 dwellings was permitted in Germany in 2012. Compared with the same period of 2011, this indicates an increase of 4.8 percent or 11,100 ...
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its representative office in South Korea, which had been established in June 2009, has been upgraded to subsidiary status and is now ...
Tags: WISCO, steelmaker, Iron, Steel
Mongolia-based Chinese miner Mongolian Mining Corporation (MMC) has announced its financial results for 2012. In 2012, MMC registered a net loss of $2.5 million, compared to a net profit of $119 million in the previous year, due to the ...
Tags: Mining Corp, coal prices, coking coal
In the fourth quarter last year, the number of persons employed in the euro area decreased by 0.8 percent while employment in the European Union (EU-27) decreased by 0.4 percent, both compared with the corresponding quarter of 2011, ...
Tags: employment, euro area, construction sector
Bauer Hockey, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of ice hockey equipment, announced that it has become the new official uniform, equipment and apparel provider for the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), one of the top junior ...
Tags: Bauer Hockey, BCHL, Apparel
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent no. 8,394,608 to BioFire Diagnostics' patent application covering the FilmArray system. The patent covers methods for sample preparation and two-step multiplex polymerase chain ...
Tags: BioFire, FilmArray system, clinical labs
Samsung on Thursday highlighted many new features in its latest Galaxy S4 smartphone during a Broadway-style presentation, but was surprisingly quiet about the technology that tracks facial and eye movement, which could enhance the video ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S4's, Consumer Electronics
Enservio, a provider of software and services to property insurers, has introduced online contents valuation tool, ContentsExpress, to accelerate the contents claims process for property insurance claims. Designed to provide a secure ...
Tags: insurers, property insurance, Insurance
Staying on the theme of summer time, comes the desire to spend more time outdoors as we can. Terraces, balconies, gardens, carefully decorated and equipped, can give relief to the office day and night even the summer heat. Full program ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Thailand's Department of Transportation officials said on Mar. 11th, Thailand will expand and improve the country's transportation network before 2020, and build a modern and high-speed rail and other transportation facilities. ...
In January this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.4 percent in the euro area and in the EU-27, as compared with December 2012. In December 2012, production had increased by 0.9 percent and 0.8 percent month on ...
Tags: Industrial Output, economy
Los Alamos National Laboratory has brought a third waste repackaging facility online to in Tanks containing transuranic waste are trucked from Los Alamos National Lab to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, ...
Tags: Los Alamos National Laboratory, waste repackaging facility
Compostable and sustainable bioplastics manufacturer Cereplast has received patent protection for biodegradable nanopolymer compositions and biodegradable articles from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). USPTO-issued ...
Tags: Cereplast, bioplastics manufacturer, USPTO
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is closing its Sirtris Pharmaceuticals office in Cambridge and fully integrating its research and development (R&D) operations with Philadelphia office. The firm is mulling to relocate some of the 60 staffers ...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent no. 8,386,027 to Echo Therapeutics' patent application relating to a needle-free skin preparation component of Symphony CGM system. The patent, entitled 'Skin Permeation Device ...