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http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=84404
Bitumen bailing plant in Mongla EPZ soon
Unb, Dhaka
A Singapore-Bangladesh joint venture Company will establish a bitumen bailing plant in Mongla Export Processing Zone.
The company, Eastern Petroleum Bangladesh Limited, will invest 6.11 million dollars to set up its plant and will produce asphalt/bitumen, said a press release.
It will also create employment opportunity for 426 Bangladeshis, including six foreign... Read Full Story
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/03/02/news0090.htm
Shipbuilding sector prospects
THE shipbuilding sector looks promising and may be able to earn as much as US$15.52 billion in just four years if it can secure only one percent of global shipbuilding market during this period. Entrepreneurs in the sector and experts made this prediction at a seminar held in the port city of Chittagong the other day. According to reports, global shipbuilding is growing at the rate of three percent... Read Full Story
Mentor’s mobile fleet management expertise moves online with a redesigned, easy-to-navigate website. Calgary, AB—April 2, 2009 Mentor Engineering, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of their all-new website at www.mentoreng.com . Simple to use and intuitively designed, this customer-focused website gets users to the information they need quickly. For publishers, the site’s RSS feed delivers the latest in wireless fleet management news. Visit the dynamic News and Resources page for... Read Full Story
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=77025 Editorial Nearing a shipbuilding boom! Full support should be accorded to the enterprise IT is indeed encouraging to note that shipbuilding to cater to overseas buyers is becoming a fast growing sector for Bangladesh. Already we have exported a number of ocean going cargo vessels and orders for more are in the pipeline. To be precise, Bangladesh has $500 million worth of export orders in hand to deliver ships by 2010. It augurs... Read Full Story
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=74260 Tk 650cr glassware plant to come on stream Workers construct a glassware and energy-saving bulb plant in Mirzapur, Tangail. The project undertaken by Nasir Group will cost Tk 650 crore. Photo: Sajjadur Rahman Sajjadur Rahman Nasir Group is going to set up the country’s first glassware and energy saving tube plant within this year at a cost of Tk 650 crore. Officials said the new company — Nasir Glassware and Tube Industries Ltd... Read Full Story
Refrigeration Road Transport includes vehicles used for transportation of food products (fresh, frozen or chilled), pharmaceutical products, and plants/flowers. The types of vehicles used for such transportations are trailers, heavy & small trucks, and vans. The main characteristics of a Refrigeration Road Transport are its ability to deliver products in good quality. Refrigeration Road Transport vehicles have different capacities; vans have a capacity of below 3.5 T (tonnes), small trucks... Read Full Story
There’s been a lot of hype and a lot of skepticism over the EEStor battery and superconductor, known as the EESU . Electric car company Zenn Motors seems to be banking their entire future on it while EEStor themselves have been very close to the vest about their research and development and any prototypes they may or may not have produced thus far.
Well, it’s getting close to go-time for them, with their announced plan to have it ready for going into Zenn vehicles sometime late this or... Read Full Story
http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=8&id=14851 Local company to invest Tk 14.92 crore to setup WTP in Chittagong EPZ DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 2 (BSS)- A local company D-Water Tech Ltd will set up a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Chittagong EPZ at a cost of Taka 14.92 crore for producing 10950 lakh gallons purified water annually. According to a decision of the Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority’s (BEPZA) Board of Governors, the authority would allow the company to operate WTP... Read Full Story
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=72371
Shipbuilders dispel recession fears
Local shipyards still receive enquiries from foreign buyers about building small vessels despite a downturn in the global shipbuilding industry amid an economic recession and uncertain demand outlook this year.
They however said buyers now offer low prices as steel prices dipped.
“We are still negotiating with buyers for a number of orders. But they offer low price,” Dr Abdullahel... Read Full Story
http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=119094 Rahimafrooz building Asia’s largest battery plant Economic Reporter Rahimafrooz Globatt Ltd, a new concern of Rahimafrooz Group, is building Asia’s largest battering manufacturing factory in the country. The factory is being built at Ishurdi Export Processing Zone in the northern part of the country at a cost of around Tk 100 crore. Jeddah-based Islamic Corporation for Development (ICD), the private sector financing arm of Islamic... Read Full Story
