Stora Enso has announced plans to invest about €32m in its Skoghall Mill in Sweden, in addition to the recent investment of about €90m in a new woodroom and woodyard for improved wood handling at the mill. Stora Enso Renewable ...
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Global Internet-based electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has agreed to act as exclusive distributor of the latest low-capacitance silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky rectifiers (launched earlier this ...
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Food packaging manufacturer in the US, Sealed Air has selected Milliken’s Millad NX 8000 clarifier for its new range of lightweight thermoformed Cryovac lidded trays and pots for meats, salads and other fresh produce. With its new ...
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NHTSA Administrator David Strickland At the Consumer Reports "Fuel Economy: Now and in the Future" event last week, the theme was easy to spot: No matter what kind of car you want, you can find one today that gets good gas mileage. And ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes hit a significant milestone in June, surging eight points to a reading of 52 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released ...
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A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from?Big Data in a research report?published this week. The Big Data in Big Companies report describes how around 20 large firms have deployed analytics software to benefit ...
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Global thermal coal prices are unlikely to recover this year unless Australian coal producers lower production or an unexpected event rattles the seaborne market and sends prices north, industry experts attending the Coaltrans Asia ...
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Non-OECD Asia, especially China and India, will slowly but surely join the club of countries with underground gas storage facilities as gas demand grows and security of supply becomes imperative, a senior executive with Storengy, GDF Suez's ...
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Desalination technology company Desalitech has secured an additional US$5 million equity funding from US private equity firm Liberation Capital and its institutional investors. This latest funding increases Liberation Capital's total ...
Fears of a possible global slowdown as US money printing tapers off sent Asian markets into a tailspin yesterday, pulling the Australian equities market back towards a level that has all but wiped off the gains it has made this year. ...
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At the 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Seattle, WA, USA (4-6 June), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on ...
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With the Southeast's housing industry enjoying a strong recovery – including 18 improving markets in Florida according to a national index – the 35th annual Southeast Building Conference (SEBC) is experiencing a resurgence as ...
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The Australian dollar slumped to a near three-year low during Asia trade after local economic data disappointed and Goldman Sachs warned the resource-rich country was at risk of a steep economic downturn. New government figures today ...
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The Australian dollar has closed firmer following an upbeat consumer sentiment reading and renewed pressure on the greenback. The currency touched US94.63c in late afternoon trading, up from US94.02c late on Tuesday. Twenty minutes ...
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The Australian dollar has closed firmer following an upbeat consumer sentiment reading and renewed pressure on the greenback. At 5pm today, the currency touched 94.63 US cents, up from 94.02 cents yesterday. Twenty minutes after ...
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