Banks, property trusts, consumer staples and energy companies pushed the sharemarket to its highest close since September 2008, as investors digested earnings reports while awaiting the overnight release of minutes from the US Federal ...
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Winning Sainsbury’s liquid milk contract has put Dairy Crest on track to reach its dairies division target of 3% operating profit margin, according to City analyst Panmure Gordon. Dairy Crest is on track to deliver 2.8% operating ...
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Cotton trades moved at a slower pace in early February, and sellers were more flexible regarding asking prices, after significant price rises in January. The industry was indicating a slight interest for large batches and pressed down ...
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Multi-effect tubular desalination devices have been designed and constructed. The performance ratio of the three-effect devices can reach about 1.7, which offers potential for cost-effective desalination. A Chinese research group has ...
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With continual improvement of lighting efficacy (lumen per watt), long life, low maintenance, low energy consumption and utility company rebates, the adaption rate of LED T8 tube lamps continues to accelerate dramatically over the last ...
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Reportedly, China's Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co. Ltd. (Taigang) announced that it will issue RMB 2.5 billion of unsecured bills with a maturity of 365 days on the interbank market on February 18th. According to ...
At 1700 AEDT, the local currency was trading at 103.64 US cents, up from 103.50 cents on Thursday. Westpac chief currency strategist Robert Rennie said the Australian dollar traded in a narrow range on Friday but remained well supported. ...
Market sentiment was aided by news that China's Citic Resources was taking a big stake in Alumina. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.7 per cent at 5036.9. This year it is up 8.3 per cent after rising 15 per cent in 2012. Trading value ...
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This question was the starting point for developing a new type of preparative liquid chromatography equipment for purification tasks. Contichrom® process equipment successfully combines the flexibility of batch HPLC systems with the ...
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Investors are betting the Australian market index can continue to push decisively beyond the 5000 mark for the first time in seven years as results from some of the blue-chip stocks and a rise in consumer confidence lent support to another ...
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US poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride moved to a profit in 2012 and claimed its "best results in recent years". The company made a profit of US$174m in the 12 months to the end of December. This compares to a net loss of $495.7m last year. ...
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Polypropylene (PP) is a common, commercial engineering plastic that is tough, flexible and can be manufactured via extrusion film casting (EFC). Most commercial PP is isotactic with all methyl groups orientated on the same side of the ...
Nestlé Australia has announced that every chocolate it sells is now independently certified to ensure the cocoa is sourced and produced sustainably on farms with safe working conditions. More than 3,000 tonnes of UTZ Certified ...
The Australian dollar nudged higher in light trading today, with much of Asia closed for the Lunar New Year celebrations and a public holiday in Japan. By late afteroon, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0301, up from US$1.0299 late Friday. ...
Tecan and IBBL (Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg) have successfully co-developed an automated platform for buffy coat extraction based on a Freedom EVO® 200 workstation, relieving scientific staff from performing this time-consuming ...