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Rio Tinto’s Sam Walsh is set to decide whether to shut the 1,400-staff Gove alumina refinery in Australia or approve a plan to lower operating costs by switching fuel sources.

The refinery supplying the raw material to make aluminium has b…

The 2013 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report prepared by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) Global Manufacturing Industry group and the Council on Competitiveness, found that – of the 38 nations assessed – five developed e…

According to a new PwC survey of large UK companies, the cutbacks will result in the second successive year of bonus reductions in the FTSE100.

It reveals that fewer than 10% of those companies are expecting material increases to bonus pay-outs as re…

According to reports in the Financial Times, EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has demanded that European suppliers be given a 30% share of the Chinese telecoms market and in return the EU will drop its investigation into the giving of alleged…

Toyoda Gosei, a supplier of steering wheels and air-bags to the auto-giant, plans to cut its capital expenditure by between 20 and 30% according to its president, Tadashi Arashima, who was speaking to Bloomberg.

Although no time-frame was g…

According to a recent report from Pike Research, sales of PEVs in the largest 102 cities in the US will total slightly more than 1.8 million vehicles from 2012 through to 2020.

Cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle combine…

The headline GMI, a metric which combines monthly responses from a global panel of marketers regarding trends they have observed in marketing budgets, trading conditions and staffing levels, registered a reading of 55.0 in January, according to W…

According to reports on Bloomberg, Indonesia, the world’s biggest tin supplier, is set to ship the least amount of the metal in a decade, which will extend shortages into a fourth year.

Statistics compiled by the news-wire from export…

There is little to no evidence that companies are being selective over certain aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the basis that it is not relevant to their industry, according to the findings of the newest Procurement Leaders executi…

As rapid decline in construction activity in the UK in 2012 has inflicted a reduction of 9% in sales in aggregates, cement and ready mixed concrete markets.

Hanson, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of construction materials, is to suspend prod…