Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) reported its financial performance for the quarter/half year ended 30th September, 2012. Highlights of Half Year’s Performance Revenues (turnover) increased by 14% to Rs 188,191 crore ($ 35.6 ...
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Nasa has committed to spend $11.2 million (£6.9 million) on developing a colour-changing LED system which will encourage astronauts to sleep by mimicking their natural circadian rhythms. It is hoped that the space agency’s ...
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Plasco Energy Group Inc. will build a 150,000 tonnes/year waste conversion facility in Ottawa, Ont., which will produce about 15MW of net electricity for the grid. The facility will be built to the Plasco Conversion System (PCS) design ...
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Significant investments and subsidies have enhanced Chinese companies’ capabilities to produce not only LED chips and packaged devices, but also materials and equipment used in LED manufacturing, as TOM HAUSKEN explains. There has ...
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WIELAND Dental + Technik, a manufacturer of dental technology, has entered into a collaboration agreement to license 3M's processed zirconia coloring technology for dental use. With the coloring technology, WIELAND can shade uncolored, ...
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Middle Eastern petrochemical producers will continue to enjoy considerable cost advantage compared with their counterparts in Southeast Asia even as a scarcity of gas forces them to shift to other feedstocks, Jaap Kalkman, a partner at ...
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BlackBerry tops the bill for students in the UAE, according to a new survey by Axiom Telecom. An extensive and varied sample of university-goers within the area were quizzed on their smartphone purchasing habits, with 65% revealing that ...
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US-based Martin Midstream Partners announced the closing of two separate purchase agreements with certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Martin Resource Management ("MRMC" or the "Parent"), the owner of Martin Midstream GP (the "General ...
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Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are real and all companies should be taking them seriously, says telecommunications company AT&T. In the past year, the company has set up an IT security team dedicated to researching APTs and making ...
Homann Holzwerkstoffe is planning to focus customisation and refining capacities at its two Polish sites in Karlino and Krosno over the next two years. Its site in Losheim, Germany will thus continue to make HDF, run two varnishing plants ...
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Ahead of the first tranche of 9.59% disinvestment of government ownership of 99.59% of Hindustan Copper Limited, India’s only vertically integrated producer of the red metal, the company’s share traded in small lots at up to INR ...
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Reuters reported that the world's biggest gold refiner, South Africa's Rand Refinery is considering setting up a refining plant in China within 2 to 3 years joining hands with a local partner on its first such plant abroad. A senior ...
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Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation has finalized a term deal to buy up to 1.097 million tonnes of gasoil for delivery next year from Swiss trader Vitol and oil major BP. Traders said that the company has agreed to pay a premium of ...
LyondellBasell announced Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has selected the Spheripol process technology from LyondellBasell for two 300 KTA polypropylene (PP) plants to be located in Pengerang, Malaysia. “PETRONAS’ ...
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London Oil Refining Company has partnered with Global Closure Systems’ (GCS) Zeller Plastik UK to develop a headstand valve pack for its new range of Astonish household cream cleaning products. According to GCS, a headstand ...
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