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Paranapanema approves US$377mn investment plan

Brazilian copper products manufacturer Paranapanema's (Bovespa: PMAM3) board has approved an investment plan of 630mn reais (US$377mn) for the 2011-13 period.

a survey of energy professionals that have been asked to comment about the various issues concerning energy usage, the environment, and the government’s role in enforcing environmental rules on utility companies. The survey was conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek and concluded that most energy professionals agree that a change is needed to encourage companies to use their energy more efficiently.

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However, the focal point of the urbanisation boom is China, which has an estimated 65m vacant properties. Their construction coincides with the “greatest level of bank lending in the history of the world”, says Bill Rhodes, the veteran Citi banker. In 2009, total Chinese credit expanded by almost half of gross domestic product. In 2010, it repeated this feat.

Rio Tinto and Chinalco, China's largest alumina producer, agreed Wednesday on a tie-up to explore copper resources in mineral-hungry China, the Anglo-Australian mining giant said.

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BT Group's Group Strategy Director, Sean Williams, continued the discussion on extending services by identifying how the existing copper networks should continue to be used for many years ahead. He said: "We are moving at the pace of our customers and there is a lot that can be done with copper. Our business case is predicated on getting 20 per cent of our copper customers onto fibre, but I think it's completely naive to expect to get everyone on fibre -- not for a generation."

Three types of risk The expert group put together by the Commission has already identified three types of risks: Import risk, where raw materials are imported from a politically instable region or from a country where the market economy does not work. "That is relatively easy to do as the World Bank has put together governance indexes which measure the political and economic stability index of countries," the EU official explained.    Production risk within the EU, with potential problems such as land access. "If we are in a country for example where the population density is very high, where urbanisation is very high, obviously access will be weak," the EU official explained. Environmental risk, based on indicators such as air or soil pollution, where the impact of raw materials use is measured from an environmental point of view. "This is innovative compared to other studies," the EU official said. "We have just launched a life-cycle analysis to determine what the environmental impact is for each raw material in terms of exploitation, use, treatment, recycling etc., for air or soil pollution as well as emissions of greenhouse gases."

Luvata, a world leader in metal solutions manufacturing and related engineering services, confirms it has received Board approval for an expansion into India through its Heat Transfer Solutions division. The group anticipates a first large production facility aimed at the domestic market. Luvata is one of the world’s biggest producers of coils and coolers for applications including commercial, industrial and mobile refrigeration.

China has ended a 110-year-long US leadership, overtaking the country as the world's top manufacturing nation in 2010, reports quoting a research report by US-based consultancy IHS Global Insight said.

Anglo American plc draws attention to the announcement made by Collahuasi, its 44% owned copper mine in Chile, relating to the approval of the prefeasibility study for the next expansion phase of this world class copper operation. The translated text of that announcement is copied below