Three winners of the inaugural AkzoNobel Architecture Prize were announced at a ceremony held in Brazil recently. Developed in partnership with the Tomie Ohtake Institute, the award was specifically set up to help develop the careers of ...
Tags: Construction, Architecture Prize, construction industry, design
BIFA, the British international Freight Association, says that media reports suggest there could be a significant increase in the price of wooden pallets over the coming months due to timber shortages. A recent meeting of the Timber ...
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Hempel recently broke ground for a coatings production facility in Russia. The new plant will help meet the growing demand for Hempel coatings in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Strategically located to best serve the market, it will ...
Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that up to August of the current year it will supply 50,000 mt of oil and gas pipeline pipes for application in the V. Filanovsky oil and gas deposit ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Pipes, steel pipe
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that it increased its supplies to building contractors in Russia to 3.362 million mt in 2013. This constitutes a 14 percent increase compared to 2012. In the whole of 2013, Severstal Invest's ...
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Tech titan Microsoft—which has struggled to keep pace with Sony and its PlayStation 4—is pinning its hopes on a new action video game, ironically named "Titanfall." The highly anticipated game for the new generation Xbox One ...
The CEO of Ecco said the family-owned Danish shoemaker was able to increase operating margins in 2013 despite rapidly growing leather and labor costs and production constraints related to a fire a 2011 fire that destroyed its factory in ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Dal-Tile will build a glazed porcelain and colorbody tile manufacturing plant and distribution center in Dickson, Tenn., near Nashville. The 1.4 million square feet plant is scheduled to open in late 2015 and will be the Dallas-based ...
Tags: Tile, expand manufacturing capability, glazed porcelain capabilities
Polytetrafluoroethylene accounts for the major share of fluoropolymer market. PTFE is the linear homopolymer of TFE with a repeat unit and is made by polymerizing TFE in water using free radical initiators. The PTFE market is experiencing ...
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Several US ferrosilicon market participants believe the preliminary determination giving a 0% margin on imports of Russian ferrosilicon and a 27.27% margin for imports of Venezuelan material, announced Wednesday, could have a near-term ...
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February steel imports are expected to hold at elevated levels seen in January, which was already a near 27% boost from December, according to Department of Commerce data that was updated Tuesday. The US had 2.9 million mt of steel ...
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China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
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Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday. The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for ...
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The German IT and communications sector is set to return to growth in 2014 driven by smartphones and tablet computers but still trail a booming global market, an industry lobby said Sunday. On the eve of the world's biggest hi-tech fair, ...
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Ikea Planning New Plant in Russia The Swedish furniture giant Ikea is planning to set a new plant in Novgorod, Russia alongside a particleboard mill that it bought from Pfleiderer in January 2013. According to the Russian media sources ...
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