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Jiangxi Copper Co Ltd has started an expansion project at its Dexing copper mine to increase its annual processing capacity to 130,000 tons from the current 100,000 tons, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

* Globally, more than half (54%) of the organizations installing new copper cabling would invest in Category 6A 10Gb/s solutions - its high-performance and reliability are key for virtualization and consolidation, which are the main drivers of green and cost-reduction strategies and are highly dependent on reliability. Airports (86%) and healthcare (71%) are the business sectors leading the drive toward investment in Category 6A 10G copper solutions.

The US Copper and Brass Servicenter Association expects that orders in Q1 will increase despite the fall in December. It was reported that 57% of service centres are expecting an increase in incoming orders over the next three months compared with Q4 2010, up from 44% in November. However, promptness of payment may be an issue as 36% of service centres foresee payments to be less prompt in Q1 2011 compared to Q4 2010, up from 17% of respondents in November.

The electricity sector accounts for almost 35 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, and 40 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Over 80 percent of GHG emissions associated with electricity generation are from the combustion of coal, with nearly all the rest due to natural gas and petroleum combustion. U.S. electricity sales are split among the residential (37 percent), commercial (36 percent), and industrial (27 percent) sectors, where primary uses vary by sector. Over the past 30 years the U.S. electricity sector has become less carbon intensive, and the U.S. economy has grown less electricity-intensive.

Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) is facing community opposition to a planned copper rod facility in New Haven, Ind., that could delay the start of full construction at the greenfield site. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management's Office of Air Quality will hold a public meeting on 15th September about the plant, a joint venture with La Farga Group, after receiving almost 80 public comments from residents with environmental concerns.

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