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...But once they begin putting silicon wafers through the equipment, “it’s about making the small tweaks to see how we can optimise the process”....
...to “support, assist and co-operate” with state intelligence work....
...“Methane emissions are a huge threat to climate change and methane is a lot more powerful than CO₂,” said Elena Belletti, co-author of the Wood Mackenzie report, which warns regulation is getting serious...
...This year, a broad coalition of 67 members of the UK parliament called for a ban on all UK sales of Dahua and Hikvision equipment on ethical grounds, citing the companies’ involvement in Xinjiang....
...Washington has accused the Hangzhou-based group of enabling repression and supplying equipment to detention camps in the north-western Xinjiang region, where Chinese authorities have detained an estimated...
...It will also take years for trusted surveillance equipment vendors . . . to meet exploding demand,” he said....
...GFG has denied wrongdoing and said it was co-operating with the probe....
...Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd Sector: BATTERIES / HQ: NINGDE, CHINA China’s dominant maker of batteries for electric vehicles has boomed thanks to growing sales to global customers such as Tesla...
...The company said in a statement on Friday: “We take very seriously the concerns raised regarding the use of Hikvision equipment, and we are evaluating a range of options to address these matters.”...
...Companies that provide the US government with goods and services must certify that they do not use Huawei equipment or products from other controversial Chinese groups, according to a new Trump administration...
...Evidence of indirect financial links with “re-education” camps — jails where 1m of Xinjiang’s Muslims are incarcerated — would cause greater embarrassment....
...The company, which was blacklisted for allegedly posing a threat to US national security this year, has supplied surveillance equipment — including facial recognition — to roughly 230 cities worldwide stretching...
...“In the surveillance industry, the components we need are much less than those needed for smartphones or telecom equipment....
...Fortescue has reduced site costs for a sixth straight year by embracing autonomous haulage, drilling and other innovative approaches to iron ore mining....
...It has since dropped the pure online marketing and has pushed into a number of other products such as TVs, toothbrushes and computer equipment....
...The two countries will create a $1bn fund to invest in energy projects, alongside a deal to pump $150m into Russia’s Eurasia Drilling Company, and a $1.1bn agreement for Russian petrochemical company Sibur...
...It will span core upstream and downstream energy businesses, plus oilfield services activities such as drilling, and the manufacturing of relevant equipment....
...the delivery of their equipment....
...Transocean, one of the largest offshore drilling contractors, relocated from the US to the Cayman Islands in 1999, and then to Switzerland in 2008....
...According to its scoring system, scuba gear is good, while photography equipment is bad....
...Many in the industry admit that unnecessary complexity and duplication is widespread — the result of business rivalries that hindered co-operation, causing industry costs to spiral....
...The Russian oil-services industry has suffered the additional blow of western sanctions that have squeezed financing across the economy as well as imposed specific restrictions on sales of western equipment...
...Drilling and activity levels remain robust but customers are growing increasingly nervy about the tumbling price of oil, Weir Group has warned....
...“If the Germans don’t want to deliver [drilling equipment and pipe systems], we will just buy from South Korea or China,” he told Der Spiegel last week....
...Such a system means that construction crews might have no idea what lies underneath large equipment....
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