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The Argentinean government has called on some of the country’s leading companies to stop using British suppliers in an attempt to bring the British government to the negotiating table as the long-running row over the sovereignty over the Falkland …

A battery manufacturing plant operated in China by Johnson Controls has been forced to suspend production amid suspicions that it had leaked lead into the environment around Shanghai, according to reports.

Worldwide soybean reserves are being depleted at the fasted rate in almost two decades, as demand for food, fuel and animal feed ramp up.

A new US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) about the impact on the Northeast of the three Philadelphia-area refinery closures warns that the area could face serious petrol supply shortages this summer.

Supply chain finance is ’vital’ to Jaguar Land Rover’s continued success in the UK, a senior executive has said, as the automotive giant raises concerns about whether its suppliers can keep up with renewed demand.

A UK government minister has admitted that laws designed to ensure that suppliers are paid on time are not working.

Producers of merchandise for the London 2012 Olympic games are set to introduce new measures to protect workers after an investigation found evidence of exploitation in Chinese factories.

A US company has developed a counterfeit risk algorithm to forecast the likelihood of an electronic part being targeted by counterfeiters.

Spiralling demand for copper will lead to a “vast deficit” of the mineral on international commodity markets, experts have warned.

Spiralling demand for copper will lead to a “vast deficit” of the mineral on international commodity markets, experts have warned.