Asamer takes the train as €8mn logistics centre opens

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A construction material company awarded the “Sustainable Development Award 2010” will transport the vast amount of material produced at one of its plants via train.Manfred Asamer, head of Upper Austrian firm Asamer, said today (Weds) 80 to 90 per cent of the material won at the Roitham factory – or 180,000 tons of gravel – […]

OMV’s Petrom reveals €100mn wind power investment

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OMV’s Romanian subsidiary Petrom is investing 100 million Euros in wind power production, it was announced today (Thurs).Petrom said it acquired the company SC Wind Power Park SRL, which owns a fully authorised wind power generation project, in the south-eastern Romanian town of Dobrogea with a designated capacity of 45 megawatt.Petrom will built and operate […]

OMV Petrom 2009 profit up

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OMV’s Romanian subsidiary Petrom yesterday (Thurs) reported a net profit of 334 million Euros in 2009.That was up by 34 per cent from its net profit of 248 billion Euros in 2008.Petrom, Romania’s largest oil company, had turnover of 3.13 billion Euros in 2009, down by 23 per cent from 4.08 billion Euros the previous […]

Nuclear plant expansion protest backed by 204,000 Viennese

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By William GreenMore than 200,000 Vienna residents have signed a petition against the controversial expansion of a nuclear power plant in Slovakia, a city councillor has claimed.Social Democratic (SPÖ) environmental councillor Ulli Sima, who had started postcard and online campaigns against its expansion, said today (Thurs) that 204,162 people had signed the petition.She said: “We […]