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Mobile growth to halve

Global demand for mobile phones is expected to rise 5.8 per cent in 2005, less than half the growth seen for 2004 and another sign the market is becoming saturated, a...

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GIC takes stake In Oman companyGulf Investment Corp (GIC) has bought a 20 per cent stake in the  $313 million Oman Polypropylene project...

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Shield in Gulf market focus

Shield, the UK-based company, is focusing on Gulf countries by expanding its network of distributors to reach all customers in the region...

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New line within budget

Dubai Aluminium’s (Dubal) Potline 7 expansion is running well within its budget of Dh748.7 million ($204 million), operations manager Abdullah Kalban has said...

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Qatar smelter announced

Qatar’s state-owned oil company Qatar Petroleum (QP) has signed a deal with Norwegian oil and aluminium giant Hydro to build a large aluminium smelter...

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Alumco in QMS achievement

Alumco LLC, a specialised aluminium facade contractor, which recently received the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system (QMS) certification, has said the standard will...

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Chinese production growth slows

China reported its industrial production growth was the slowest in a year and a half in November 2004 in the wake of government orders to banks to restrict lending for...

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Iranian copper plants on stream

Iran has brought two major copper plants on stream, adding 80,000 tonnes per year to its anode production capacity, the official IRNA news agency said...

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Toyota hopes to top 8m

Toyota Motor Corporation said it expects its group-wide auto sales to rise by seven per cent in 2005 to a record 8.03 million vehicles globally as it boosts its...