Search Results for: Australia

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research consortium has announced a breakthrough in cutting the weight of cars, producing and testing a full-scale carbon fibre floorpan, to be combined with sills, roof, pillars and side panels from the same material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUB-SAHARAN Africa countries are restricting their growth through burdensome company registration regulations, claims the International Finance Corporation (IFC). It adds most countries in the region (bar South Africa and Botswana) have weak property protection laws. Chad requires 19 procedures to register a business, compared with two in Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission arguments backing its proposed reform of the EU sugar regime have been strengthened by an interim decision by the World Trade Organisation that EU subsidies to the sugar sector are illegal. The claim was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
Mine Name: Argyle Diamond Mine

Location: 180km south east of Kununurra, East Kimberley, Western Australia. Mining lease sits on traditional land of Gija and Mirriuwong Aboriginal people.

Ownership: 100% owned and managed by Rio Tinto.

Start Up: Alluvial mining commenced in 1983; formally commissioned as a mine in December 1985.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PAKISTAN polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacturers have escaped from punishing anti-dumping duties on exports to the European Union (EU), while Brussels wants to levy tariffs on similar products from China and Australia. The European Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to release provisional duties collected from Pakistani manufacturers, while retaining those taken from Chinese and Australian producers.…

KEITH NUTHALL
PAKISTAN polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacturers have escaped from paying punishing anti-dumping duties on exports to the European Union (EU), while Brussels wants to levy such tariffs on similar products from China and Australia. The European Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to release provisional duties collected from Pakistani manufacturers, while retaining those taken from Chinese and Australian producers.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN scientists claim they have made a mineral-recycling breakthrough that should save the Australian metals and minerals sector an estimated A$295 (US$208) million in costs. The private-public project coordinated by the AJ Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy in Perth, Western Australia, boasts a fundamental advance in the understanding of processes for separating fine particles from water, produced new insights into the behaviour of flocculants, substances used to clump and separate particles from water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WTO disputes panel has ruled that EU sugar subsidies break global trade rules, although the European Commission is expected to appeal. The case was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia and the ruling follows the announcement of reforms to the EU’s sugar market system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK that American cattle are infected with BSE is high, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded, and without changes to US rendering or feeding practice, “the probability of cattle to be (pre-clinically or clinically) infected with BSE persistently increases”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission arguments backing its proposed reform of the European Union (EU) sugar regime have been strengthened by an interim decision by the World Trade Organisation that existing EU subsidies to the sugar sector are illegal. The claim was brought by Brazil, Thailand and Australia.…