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OUTOKUMPU HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH CARRIER REGARDING CIVIL PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO EU INDUSTRIAL TUBE CARTEL DECISION

Outokumpu Oyj and Carrier Corporation have signed a settlement agreement that covers all damage suits against Outokumpu by Carrier in the US and UK pursuant to the European Commission’s industrial tubes cartel decision of 2003. The total settlement amount is around 10 million euros. The settlement covers also all former Outokumpu subsidiaries included in the …

Molex Appoints Digilife Distribution and Marketing Services (DDMS), as Distribution Partner in India

Molex without Tag Molex Premise Networks (MPN), global manufacturer of Structured Cabling Systems and a division of Molex Inc., announces the appointment of Digilife Distribution and Marketing Services (DDMS), a 100% subsidiary of HCL Infosystems Ltd., as its distributor in India. As part of the agreement, DDMS will distribute the complete range of MPN product …

Plant Science Could Ease Global Food and Fuel Demands: Carnegie

Stanford, CA— An international team of 12 leading plant biologists, including Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer, say their discoveries could have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. All of their work focuses on the mechanisms that plants use for transporting small molecules across their membranes and thus …

Production launch at Starcore in Thailand

Rolling and skin-passing mill at Esmech Equipment Esmech Equipment Pvt. Ltd., an Indian joint venture partner of SMS Siemag, Germany, has successfully put into operation the new reversing cold mill at Starcore Co. Ltd. in Rayong, Thailand. Starecore has now an additional production capacity of 200,000 t of high-grade cold rolled strip as well as a skin-passing capacity of 146,000 …

Bahru Stainless puts 20-roll millstand from SMS Siemag into operation

Düsseldorf, April 30, 2013 Production launch for first stage of construction The first strip was successfully rolled on the new 20-roll cold-rolling stand at Bahru Stainless SDN BHD in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. In the south of Malaysia, the Asian company Bahru Stainless SDN BHD, a subsidiary of the Spanish Acerinox group, has erected a new production facility for cold-rolled …

Tawasul Telecom Expands Its Private Cloud Network to Frankfurt Germany

Kuwait – April 2013 Gulf Electronic Tawasul Company (Tawasul Telecom), the GCC leader in the provisioning of IP based services, has announced the addition of Frankfurt, Germany to its MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) Private Cloud Network.  Frankfort is Tawasul Telecom’s second Point of Presence in Europe, and brings the total to nine:  The six GCC …