Australian beer company Coopers Brewery enjoyed record beer sales for the 2013 calendar year, moving beyond the 70 million litre mark for the first time in the Company’s history, as market research organisation IBISWorld findings ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q1 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2013 European Union (EU) steel imports are estimated to decline by 9.5 percent year on ...
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Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producing corporation, has announced that it produced 96.5 million mt of coal in 2013, up one percent year on year. In 2013, SUEK's sales volume rose by one percent year on year ...
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd says that, using its phosphor technology and chip fabrication techniques, it has raised the light efficacy for its chip-on-board (COB) family of LED packages to what is claimed to be the ...
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South Korea's SK Innovation has suspended construction of an almost completed paraxylene plant in Incheon, in the country's west coast, after local authorities accused the company of violating the city's building codes, the company said ...
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According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2013 global crude steel output reached 1.61 billion mt, increasing by 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis. In December of the same year, world crude steel production for the 65 ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.25, up 1 cent Mar. soybeans closed at $12.80 and 1/2, down 36 cents Mar. soybean meal closed at $416.50, down $18.00 Mar. soybean oil closed at 38.10, up 36 points Mar. ...
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Veliky Novogorod to become largest gas carrier in Gazprom’s fleet Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014 A naming ceremony took place today for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier at STX O&S shipyard in the city of Jinhae (South Korea). The ...
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Trade disputes can often be resolved through dialogue. A good example of this process is the recent deal between China and European Union (EU) concerning solar panels. Dialogue does not always work, however, when it comes to trade between ...
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South Korea's LG Electronics said on Tuesday it would start selling its first curved-screen smartphone—seen as a first step to fully flexible products—in Europe next month. The "G-Flex" was introduced in Seoul in October and ...
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In 2009, we heard that South Korea was working on some sort of massive robot theme park that was scheduled to open in 2012. And then, we kind of didn't hear anything for a very, very, very long time. Now that it's 2014, Robot Land is back ...
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Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and Telstra Global, which supplies managed ...
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After decades of relying on imports for garment accessories, Vietnam has for the first time exported garment accessories in 2013, reports vov.vn. Vietnam exported garment accessories worth US$ 700 million last year, according to ...
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The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country's biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers' data leaked ...
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