Alcoa today detailed a series of specific actions to conserve cash, reduce costs and
strengthen the Company's competitiveness during the current economic downturn.
Building on the Company's commitment from October, these actions address
additional production curtailments, cost and procurement efficiencies, portfolio
streamlining and reduction of capital expenditures and other liquidity enhancements.
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) announces that, the proposal of merger of Vale’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Mineração Onça Puma S.A. into Vale, was approved today by Vale’s shareholders gathere...
NASA has issued a request for proposal for the Ares V rocket
that will perform heavy lift and cargo functions as part of the next generation
of spacecraft that will return humans to the moon. The request is for Phase
I concept definition and requirements development for the Ares V rocket.
Cookson Group plc ("Cookson"), a leading materials science company, announces that on 23 December 2008 it completed the disposal of its Hi-Tech Ceramic filters business ("Hi-Tech") to companies owned ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today that it completed the acquisition of AxleTech International from The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm, in late December. The companies announced plan...
The
Lubrizol Corporation announced today that it has acquired the
thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) business from The Dow Chemical Company, a $54
billion diversified chemical company. This acquisition, structured as a sale
and purchase of assets, will expand Lubrizol’s Estane® Engineered
Polymers business. The Dow TPU business had 2007 revenues of approximately $85
million.
The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded
a major research grant by the energy giant E.ON based in Germany as part of
their 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business'. The three year
project, led by Professor Ravi Silva, Director of the Advanced Technology Institute,
aims to utilise the nanotechnological expertise of the institute in the design,
fabrication and characterisation of the organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells.
MIE
Solutions, a proven leader in the software industry, has created revolutionary
shop floor data collection software running on windows which makes use of production
scheduling to enable a manufacturing shop to go paperless.
Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) today announced it has received the final $425 million in payments from affiliates of Apollo Management, L.P. ("Apollo"). The payments were made pursuant to Huntsman's agree...
Vale announces that it entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 100% of the export coal assets of Cementos Argos S.A. (Argos) in Colombia for US$ 300 million.
Argos, listed in Bolsa de Valores de Colombia...
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