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Waters Introduces CORTECS Columns Featuring Solid-Core Particle Technology
CORTECS(TM) Columns , a new family of 1.6 micron solid-core UltraPerformance LC(®) Columns that set a new standard in LC column performance. The higher efficiency brought to chromatography with CORTECS Columns allows laboratories to produce greater amounts of information faster with every chromatographic separation. ...
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Dutch waste processer AVR in Chinese hands for nearly €1bn
Dutch waste processer and market leader AVR has been bought by a Chinese consortium for €944m. The consortium, led by Cheung Kong Infrastructure is taking over AVR from its current owner Van Gansewinkel. The Dutch firm generates energy from burning waste in Rozenburg, near Rotterdam, and Duiven.Cheung King is owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing and took over a New Zealand waste ...
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Dutch property firm Meridian plans $267 mln Warsaw share float
WARSAW, June 17 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:08am EDT WARSAW, June 17 (Reuters) - Dutch company Meridian Properties plans to debut on the Warsaw bourse as a real estate investment trust, selling new shares to raise 200 million euros ($267 million) to purchase a property portfolio and partly pay off debt, it said on Monday. Meridian plans to complete the initial public offer by mid-July 2013, ...
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Hong Kong tycoon buys Dutch waste-to-energy company
A consortium led by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing said Monday it had agreed to buy a Dutch waste management company, in a deal worth more than $1billion. The HK$9.7 billion ($1.25 billion) acquisition of AVR Afvalverwerking B.V. (AVR), which specialises in turning waste into energy, is the second waste processor investment made this year by Li's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Monday June 17
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Football Dutch linesman killing verdict due
A Dutch court is on Monday to hand down a verdict against a group of teenaged boys and a father accused of kicking to death a linesman, a case that sent shockwaves through the football-mad Netherlands.Amateur league linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen, 41, was allegedly kicked several times in the head by enraged youth players shortly after a December match, in which one of his sons was playing.He ...
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Cheung Kong forms JV to buy Dutch waste processing firm for $1.26 billion
HONG KONG | Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:35pm EDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong property group Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd (0001.HK), controlled by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing, said it will form a joint venture to buy Dutch waste processing firm RAV Water Treatment I B.V. for 943.68 million euros ($1.26 billion). Other joint venture partners include Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd ...
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MLB Toronto 7 Texas 2
Adam Lind lofted a three-run homer Sunday, lifting Toronto to a series-sweeping 7-2 win over Texas. Wang (1-0) earned his first win as a Blue Jay in his second start after being signed to contract this month. The veteran right-hander worked around seven hits and two walks while striking out five Neil Wagner recorded the final out of the game for his first save after the Rangers had scored ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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