Slough :: United Kingdom
| about 6 hours ago
Workers at a rubber factory hit by an explosion had a lucky escape as they were at a meeting in another part of the building, the fire service said today. One person suffered minor injuries in the blast which tore off huge metal panels and shattered...
Tags: blast, chemical, plant, hurt, Slough Industrial Estate, industry estate
Chennai :: India
| 2 days ago
Murugappa Group, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Administration of the Volgograd Region, Russia, for setting up a one lakh-tonne SiC fusion plant through its subsidiary Volzhsky Abrasive Works. The proposed plant will have environment...
Tags: plant, russia, energy
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA
| 8 days ago
Rising wheat prices in 2007 turned Louisiana into a mini-breadbasket. Producers planted about 400,000 acres of wheat last fall, the second most in the state's history. But the price of wheat has dropped drastically since touching $12 a bushel earlier...
Tags: farmers, crop, plant, Louisiana
Dyersville :: IA :: USA
| 10 days ago
Joe Goebel doesn't need to plead with bank tellers to take his check. "Can't ask them to cash what I don't got," he said. Instead, the Guttenberg farmer plans to seek a loan extension. After all, he needs something to tide him over as he waits to be paid...
Tags: plant, farmers, Dyersville
Belvidere :: IL :: USA
| 24 days ago
Mattel Inc., the world's largest toy company, says it is eliminating 1,000 jobs, including 170 positions at its headquarters in El Segundo, it was reported today. The cuts amount to about 3 percent of the firm's worldwide workforce, according to a company...
Tags: chrysler, plant, jobs, economy, Illinois Chrysler
New York City :: NY :: USA
| 25 days ago
Sara Lee Corp., the Downers Grove maker of packaged food and consumer products, said Thursday that it will spend $80 million to construct a new coffee-extraction plant in the Netherlands. Sara Lee, which has an extensive presence in Europe and other offshore...
Tags: plant, shares, Sara Lee Corp., down, dow, stock, john mccain
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA
| 26 days ago
Sevier County voters sent a clear message to their leaders: They want a say before any coal-fired plants come to town. More than 58 percent supported amending a zoning ordinance to require a public vote on any conditional-use permit for a coal-fired...
Tags: plant, vote, power plants, voters, republican, voter, voting, Sevier County, fired power, elections, power plant, public votes
Manila :: Philippines
| 29 days ago
The Department of Energy (DOE) will start accepting proposals for its multi-million dollar compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) project. Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes said the DOE will start procuring five million units of CFLs next week. “The DOE is now inviting...
Tags: nuclear power plant, energy, nuclear power, nuclear, power plant, power, nuclear energy, plant, iran, pakistan
Bradenton :: FL :: USA
| about 1 month ago
Boat manufacturer Chris-Craft Corp. announced today its Manatee County plant will shut down full-assembly productions for six weeks during the holiday season. Instead, the Manatee County plant will stagger manufacturing shifts during the six-week period,...
Tags: manatee, plant, Manatee County
Brussels :: Belgium
| about 1 month ago
European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use for the treatment of adult patients who are not eligible for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation with: Intermediate-2 and high-risk MDS according to the International Prognostic...
Tags: blasts, blast, america, plant, European Medicines Agency
