Poyry has secured a detail engineering services contract to upgrade Smurfit Kappa's paper machine 1 in the Netherlands. The scope of the contract includes mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical, instrumentation and ...
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Toscotec has secured a contract to reconstruct PM1 tissue machine at Correll Tissue facility in Durban, South Africa. The rebuilding of the machine is expected to start in the second half of 2017. Correll Tissue is the primary tissue ...
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Infrastructure Victoria is calling for community feedback following the release of its draft 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy. In the development of the draft plan, Infrastructure Victoria says it consulted the community on over 200 ideas ...
Finnish meat processor Atria has announced that it would invest €14m to improve operations at poultry firm Lagerberg which was recently acquired by it. The company will make investments over the next three years to improve the entire ...
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The Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) released figures collected by the Physical Activity Council showing that in 2015, 34.9 million American children (ages 6-17) were classified as ‘not active to healthy standards,’ ...
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China still faces severe steel oversupply, and a recent price surge is only due to temporary market expectations, a senior official said on Thursday. Steel prices increased significantly starting in March and declined mildly in May, as ...
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Chinese and U.S. representatives expressed optimism for the future of the China-U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) negotiations during a session at this year's Boao Forum for Asia annual conference. Against the backdrop of a global ...
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New Zealand-based dairy cooperative Fonterra’s Australian unit is investing NZD$141m ($93.9m) in the construction of a modern cheese facility at its Stanhope factory premises. The new facility will be constructed in place of the ...
Juan Jose Aranguren, the next energy minister of Argentina, said Friday he will seek to rebuild investor confidence in the country by improving business conditions after taking office December 10. "We need, as in other sectors of economic ...
The movie We Are Young, We Are Strong is among the 14 titles screened at the Festival of German Cinema in China. [Photo provided to China Daily] When you speak of Germany, most Chinese probably think of beer and soccer, but an ongoing ...
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European Consumer Organisation BEUC has published a new report, which reveals that meat products marketed across the European Union often carry dishonest labels. The BEUC report findings, which are based on tests conducted by seven ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that the first two blocks of its Luz del Norte ...
Dheepan, Palme d'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, will premiere at the Institut Français de Chine in Beijing on Friday. Directed by Frenchman Jacques Audiard, the film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who fled ...
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PPG Industries has completed the expansion work worth $27m at its coatings manufacturing facility in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. Work under the expansion included the addition of space for production, product development and ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has eased restrictions on Canadian poultry imports as the industry is recovering from the recent bird flu outbreak. Imports of poultry and poultry products from Ontario were banned in April after a ...
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