Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced on September 12 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a high-volume joint venture steel project in South Africa together ...
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Numerous developments in the area of vehicle safety are significantly influenced as a result of current NCAP or NHTSA regulations and then realized and implemented by manufacturers and their suppliers. The situation in China is similar, ...
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Belgium-based Picanol Group, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in China, saw its revenue plunge 28% year-on-year in the first six months of 2014, in what it called a significant slowdown period. Picanol reported sales of Euro ...
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ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the largest metallurgical enterprise in Kazakhstan, has stated that it intends to continue updating its production capacities. Accordingly, the construction of a gas cleaning system for converter No. 3 and ...
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American retailer Meijer has broken ground on a $100m dairy production plant in Tipp City, Miami County, Ohio, a move which will create 100 new jobs. Spread across an area of 173,000ft2, the new plant will include 105,000ft2 dairy ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Dairy, Dairy Products
Cisco Systems has announced plans to expand its campus in Research Triangle Park and create 550 new jobs by the end of 2017. The California-based tech giant, which already employs about 5,000 workers and contractors in RTP, will be ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €46 million in the modernization of rolling mills, including €30 million for the rolling stand in V?lklingen and €16 million for the wire mill in ...
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Sichuan Province-based Pangang Xichang Steel & Vanadium Co., a subsidiary of Sichuan-based Chinese steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group (Pangang Group), has put its cold rolled project into operation, as reported by Sichuan Daily ...
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American automaker General Motors is investing $50m to establish a new Trim Shop and upgrade its Press Room at the Lordstown Complex, Ohio, in order to support the build of the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan. The company ...
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Anglo American said Thursday that it increased output of iron ore and metallurgical coal in the first quarter ended March 31, mainly due to a ramp-up in operations. Iron ore production rose 10% year on year to 11.3 million mt on increased ...
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Canada's total crude oil output is expected to reach 3.9 million b/d in 2015, some 500,000 b/d more than the current output, driven primarily by small in-situ oil sands developments, each typically 35,000-40,000 b/d, an industry official ...
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Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it will replace the blast furnace oil injection system at its Raahe steel plant with a new pulverized coal injection (PCI) system to improve steelmaking cost efficiency by reducing raw ...
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Garment manufacturers from Hong Kong have entered into an agreement to set up their first industrial park in Myanmar, reports the South China Morning Post. The apparel park would be set up on 200 hectare area in Yangon, the former ...
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shagang Group has announced that it plans to construct bonded warehouse facilities as well as shearing facilities in Jiulong Steel Logistics Park in Jiangsu. Accordingly, Shagang Group will invest ...
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Xylem has won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem's Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 ...