PPG Industries' automotive OEM coatings business in China recently earned the 2012 AAA Green Partner award from FAW-Volkswagen (FVW). Zhang Peijie, general manager of FVW, presented the trophy to Yang Weihua, PPG general manager for ...
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Using LEDs as light sources in vegetable gardening is a new business opportunity in Japan, according to a recent Sankei Biz report. Large Japanese real estate developers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and architecture firms are ...
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ECORE Commercial Flooring (ECF) is proud to introduce its latest flooring solution: Forest rx. Using ECORE’s itstru technology, this unique surfacing is a hybrid of a Forest rx vinyl wear layer, manufactured by Polyflor, fusion-bonded ...
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Tuscany Olive Wood announced this week that they have been invited to show their product at the 2013 New York International Carpet Show in New York City October 6-8. Traditionally, a Market trade event for high-end carpet and rug ...
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In June, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.7 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.6 percent in cities and 2.8 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.9 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
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The 2012 financial results of China Specialty Glass AG ("CSG"), holding company of one of the largest producers of security glass in China, are impacted by a negative one-off effect of 12.5 million Euros. This one-off effect resulted ...
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China can now boast of having the largest contiguous construction after New Century Globe Centre, an 18-storey, glass-and-steel frame structure, opened above a new subway station in Chengdu, Sichuan province. It is 100 metres high, 500 ...
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SIOUX CITY | Roger Rozell, of Sioux City, spent Monday sorting bottle after bottle in the redemption center at Laurence's Super Market. Green bottles in one area. Empty beer bottles in cartons. Entire grocery carts filled with open wine ...
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ArchStudia Vega's Russian Seashell House is composaaed of three levels in which the floor of the ocean, the water's surface, and the sky are represented. Located in the community of Tavatuy in Russia and designed by Yuriy Gaydukov at ...
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Eleven cement companies will be forced to make a provision of Rs 669 crore in the June quarter for the Rs 6,698-crore penalty levied on them by the Competition Commission of India. In the cement price cartelisation case, the Supreme Court ...
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Like 302 nominees A giraffe house in New Zealand, a monastery in Taiwan, a treehouse in the USA and a research station in Antarctica are among the 302 projects that have been nominated for the World Architecture Festival Awards 2013. The ...
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The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers' Association (ASCER) is launching the twelfth edition of the Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design. The total prize fund is 39,000 Euros for three categories: Architecture, Interior ...
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SelecTech, Inc. has recently announced that its signature commercial and industrial static control flooring systems have tested to be the "best in class." In a recent scientific test study conducted by a renowned, independent static ...
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LATICRETE was specified for its products and expertise in a magnificent water feature project recently at Three Gorges Mansion in Chendu, China. A state-owned Chinese power company, the China Three Gorges Corporation planned its new ...
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Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announces today that it has been awarded a £121 million contract for an 18-storey hotel, leisure and apartment complex in North Greenwich Peninsula, London for Grove Developments ...
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