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The decision will bring production down to around 60% of capacity and comes in response to very high electricity prices showing no sign of improvement in the short term. Slovalco is currently in the process of executing a previous decision to curtail production down to 80% by December 31. Further curtailment will start at the end of January 2022. A further reduction of capacity down to 60% corresponds to an additional annual reduction of 35,000 tonnes of production. The curtailment decision will affect primary foundry alloy volumes at Slovalco. Customer commitments will be fulfilled ... Read more

Europe’s largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world’s most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe…

Hamburg, Munich. The full-service IT provider X1F is strengthening its portfolio in the area of business processes, which, together with the areas of data infrastructure and data analysis, form three core elements for digitalization strategies. ADWEKO Consulting GmbH and COMPIRICUS AG are new acquisitions joining the X1F Group. Their business process expertise combines with IKOR GmbH (technology consulting and platform integrator), Informationsfabrik GmbH (data analysis and artificial intelligence expertise) and matrix technology GmbH (IT consulting and service provider). ADWEKO Consulting GmbH, founded in 2008 and located in Walldorf, Germany, is a market-leading IT consultancy and software provider specializing in risk ... Read more

Wiley, a global leader in research and education, announced the 2021 release of its KnowItAll and ChemWindow software and spectral databases. This release includes patent pending technology that accelerates mass spectral (MS) analysis, equipping users with insights that may lead to more accurate identification of compounds.  In this release, Wiley expanded KnowItAll’s industry leading IR and Raman capabilities with feature updates that accelerate MS analysis of unknown compounds, including new algorithms, additional file import/export filters, and new options to analyze mass spectra, including MS mixture analysis. A major highlight in the release is the new MS Adaptive Search technology (patent ... Read more

Hong Kong and Singapore decide not to further pursue bilateral Air Travel Bubble ********************************************************************************      The Governments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and Singapore announced today (August 19) that taking into account the differences in the anti-epidemic strategies currently adopted by the two places, the two governments have decided not to pursue further discussions on the bilateral Air Travel Bubble (ATB) and will continue to facilitate movements of travellers between the two places under their respective border control measures.      A spokesman for the HKSAR Government said that the discussions on the ATB, which began in ... Read more