Steel producer Arcelor Mittal is to further invest in its Polish operations in a bid to meet growing demand for its products within the region. Steel is becoming increasingly important to food and beverage companies as part of an increasing focus by industry and governments for sustainable packaging. With the construction of its new Steel Service centre in...

Moscow -- By pumping the proceeds of its oil and natural-resources boom into the high-tech industry, Russia is creating an electronics bonanza and an unprecedented mood of optimism. But the country has a history of failed intervention in its semiconductor and electronics industries, which until the last couple of years had stagnated for more than a decade. So...

 The Czech Republic could adopt the euro in 2012 if the government makes it its priority, Czech central bank (CNB) Vice-Governor Ludek Niedermayer said on Monday. Niedermayer told the Reuters Central European Investment Summit it was necessary to set a euro entry date at least three years before the intended target date. The government abandoned an earlier...

An Estonian company has pitched a EUR 30 mln idea for a waste recycling plant to the local authorities in Bulgarian city of Pleven. Pleven regional governor Tsvetko Tsvetkov was quoted as saying by news agency BTA that has meet with an authorised representative of the Inwatec Baltic Service Ou to discuss the project. The plant will generate 1 mln euro in annual...

Miskolc is the only county capital that has no water purification plant to guarantee a secure supply of drinking water, said Kálmán Katona, chairman of the Parliament's environmental committee at a press conference in Miskolc yesterday....