Environment

Recycling

Hungary’s Mabio to launch bio-ethanol investment

Bács-Kiskun county-based Magyar Bioenergetikai Zrt (Mabio) is to launch a €190 million ($263 million) investment, one of the largest of...

Initiatives

Denmark advocates North Pole conference

Denmark and Greenland have called on the United States, Norway, Canada and Russia to hold a conference in May 2008...

Recycling

Hame buys Romanian food maker Antrefrig

Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market to roughly...

Recycling

Tatneft picks US engineering company Fluor to build oil refinery plant

Russian regional oil producer Tatneft, based in the constituent republic of Tatarstan, has signed a preliminary agreement with US engineering...

Recycling

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans $1 bln investment in petrochem facility in Ukraine

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans to invest an approximate sum of $1 billion in Ukraine’s Karpatnaftokhim. The new facility will process plastic and...

Recycling

EnviTec invests €55 mln in biogas

Germany’s EnviTec Biogas company intends to invest €55 million ($76 million) within the next two years in biogas production, with...

Initiatives

Hungary announces reforms for 2008

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány announced the government’s planned new wave of reforms for 2008 at Parliament on Monday, according to...

Recycling

EIB to lend €100 mln to Port of Zadar in Croatia

The European Investment Bank is lending €100 million to the Port of Zadar Authority (Lucka Uprava Zadar) to finance the...

Recycling

Intel starts building $2.5 bln chip plant in China

On Saturday, US computer chip giant Intel Corp. broke ground on its first chipset plant in Asia, a project which...

Recycling

Russia’s UC RusAl to build plant in Indonesia

Russian aluminum giant United Company RusAl and Indonesian mining company Antam are expected to establish a bauxite and alumina processing...

Initiatives

Druzhba pipeline leg may be re-commissioned in spring

A Russian technical office spokesman said Thursday that the leg of a pipeline that used to pump oil to Lithuania...

Initiatives

Belarus energy firm to work Iran oil fields for $450 million

A Belarusian energy company was on Wednesday to sign an agreement worth $450 million to develop two Iranian oil fields,...

Initiatives

Five hundred chickens die of bird flu in south Russia

About 500 chickens in the south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory have died of bird flu, a local official said Tuesday....

Initiatives

Norway’s Statoil to purchase Baltic biodiesel interest

Statoil has signed a letter of intent with SEB Venture Capital for the purchase of a 42.5% interest in UAB...

Initiatives

Eastern Europe faces generation crisis

Just as the governments of Eastern Europe are grappling with the labor shortage caused by young, educated and skilled citizens...

Recycling

Hungary’s Mabio to launch bio-ethanol investment

Bács-Kiskun county-based Magyar Bioenergetikai Zrt (Mabio) is to launch a €190 million ($263 million) investment, one of the largest of...

Initiatives

Denmark advocates North Pole conference

Denmark and Greenland have called on the United States, Norway, Canada and Russia to hold a conference in May 2008...

Recycling

Hame buys Romanian food maker Antrefrig

Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market to roughly...

Recycling

Tatneft picks US engineering company Fluor to build oil refinery plant

Russian regional oil producer Tatneft, based in the constituent republic of Tatarstan, has signed a preliminary agreement with US engineering...

Recycling

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans $1 bln investment in petrochem facility in Ukraine

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans to invest an approximate sum of $1 billion in Ukraine’s Karpatnaftokhim. The new facility will process plastic and...

Recycling

EnviTec invests €55 mln in biogas

Germany’s EnviTec Biogas company intends to invest €55 million ($76 million) within the next two years in biogas production, with...

Initiatives

Hungary announces reforms for 2008

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány announced the government’s planned new wave of reforms for 2008 at Parliament on Monday, according to...

Recycling

EIB to lend €100 mln to Port of Zadar in Croatia

The European Investment Bank is lending €100 million to the Port of Zadar Authority (Lucka Uprava Zadar) to finance the...

Recycling

Intel starts building $2.5 bln chip plant in China

On Saturday, US computer chip giant Intel Corp. broke ground on its first chipset plant in Asia, a project which...

Recycling

Russia’s UC RusAl to build plant in Indonesia

Russian aluminum giant United Company RusAl and Indonesian mining company Antam are expected to establish a bauxite and alumina processing...

Initiatives

Druzhba pipeline leg may be re-commissioned in spring

A Russian technical office spokesman said Thursday that the leg of a pipeline that used to pump oil to Lithuania...

Initiatives

Belarus energy firm to work Iran oil fields for $450 million

A Belarusian energy company was on Wednesday to sign an agreement worth $450 million to develop two Iranian oil fields,...

Initiatives

Five hundred chickens die of bird flu in south Russia

About 500 chickens in the south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory have died of bird flu, a local official said Tuesday....

Initiatives

Norway’s Statoil to purchase Baltic biodiesel interest

Statoil has signed a letter of intent with SEB Venture Capital for the purchase of a 42.5% interest in UAB...

Initiatives

Eastern Europe faces generation crisis

Just as the governments of Eastern Europe are grappling with the labor shortage caused by young, educated and skilled citizens...

Hungary’s Mabio to launch bio-ethanol investment

Bács-Kiskun county-based Magyar Bioenergetikai Zrt (Mabio) is to launch a €190 million ($263 million) investment, one of the largest of...

Denmark advocates North Pole conference

Denmark and Greenland have called on the United States, Norway, Canada and Russia to hold a conference in May 2008...

Hame buys Romanian food maker Antrefrig

Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market to roughly...

Tatneft picks US engineering company Fluor to build oil refinery plant

Russian regional oil producer Tatneft, based in the constituent republic of Tatarstan, has signed a preliminary agreement with US engineering...

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans $1 bln investment in petrochem facility in Ukraine

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans to invest an approximate sum of $1 billion in Ukraine’s Karpatnaftokhim. The new facility will process plastic and...

EnviTec invests €55 mln in biogas

Germany’s EnviTec Biogas company intends to invest €55 million ($76 million) within the next two years in biogas production, with...

Hungary announces reforms for 2008

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány announced the government’s planned new wave of reforms for 2008 at Parliament on Monday, according to...

EIB to lend €100 mln to Port of Zadar in Croatia

The European Investment Bank is lending €100 million to the Port of Zadar Authority (Lucka Uprava Zadar) to finance the...

Intel starts building $2.5 bln chip plant in China

On Saturday, US computer chip giant Intel Corp. broke ground on its first chipset plant in Asia, a project which...

Russia’s UC RusAl to build plant in Indonesia

Russian aluminum giant United Company RusAl and Indonesian mining company Antam are expected to establish a bauxite and alumina processing...

Druzhba pipeline leg may be re-commissioned in spring

A Russian technical office spokesman said Thursday that the leg of a pipeline that used to pump oil to Lithuania...

Belarus energy firm to work Iran oil fields for $450 million

A Belarusian energy company was on Wednesday to sign an agreement worth $450 million to develop two Iranian oil fields,...

Five hundred chickens die of bird flu in south Russia

About 500 chickens in the south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory have died of bird flu, a local official said Tuesday....

Norway’s Statoil to purchase Baltic biodiesel interest

Statoil has signed a letter of intent with SEB Venture Capital for the purchase of a 42.5% interest in UAB...

Eastern Europe faces generation crisis

Just as the governments of Eastern Europe are grappling with the labor shortage caused by young, educated and skilled citizens...