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• JAPAN

  - 2009-01-21

  Stock markets Stocks joined a regional sell-off as a new round of jitters about the health of global banks swept through the markets. Top Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group lost 2.9 per cent, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial fell 3.8 per cent and Mizuho Financial shed 6.2 per...

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• Oil Shale Exploration Company Signs Agreement with Affiliates of Petroleo Brasileiro S/A and Mitsui & Co Ltd

  - 2008-06-09

  VERNAL, Utah -- Oil Shale Exploration Company ("OSEC"), a Utah based private company, announced it has signed an agreement with affiliates of Brazilian integrated energy company Petroleo Brasileiro S/A ("Petrobras") and Japanese investment and trading company Mitsui & Co Ltd. ("Mitsui") pursuant to which Petrobras and Mitsui acquired rights to...

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• Group Headed by MHI, ROHM, Toppan Printing and Mitsui & Co. Establish Joint Venture to Assess Business Viability of Lighting-use Organic EL Panel

  - 2008-05-28

  Tokyo, May 28, 2008 - JCN Newswire - A group headed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI, ROHM CO., LTD., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., today jointly established Lumiotec Inc. to assess the business viability of organic electroluminescence OEL panels for lighting applications. The joint venture...

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• Qatar signs deals to build bln dlr power plant

  - 2008-05-11

  DOHA AFP — Gas-rich Qatar on Sunday signed a series of deals to build a 3.8-billion-dollar (2.5-billion-euro) desalination and power plant part-owned by Japanese and French firms, a statement said. The facility will be completed in 2011 and will be owned and operated by Ras Girtas Power Company, the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Mitsui & Co., turbine

• Muti-System locomotives owned by Mitsui Rail Capital Europe have become the first type to be granted an unconditional operating license to work on the Betuwe dedicated freight corridor in the Netherlands

  - 2008-05-01

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• Tokyo

  - 2008-04-16

  WORLD MARKETS The Nikkei rose 0.6 per cent, with Tokyo Electron jumping on a brokerage upgrade, while resource-related shares such as trading house Mitsui & Co climbed after oil prices hit record highs. The market got a lift from steel shares like Nippon Steel and JFE Holdings. The...

  Tags: JFE Holdings Inc., Mitsui & Co., Tokyo Electron Ltd.

• Petrobras Signs Agreement with Japan's Mitsui to Produce Biofuels, an Industrial Info News Alert

  - 2008-04-04

  Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Japan's Mitsui Group Tokyo in a move to increase its business sustainability in biofuels production. The new enterprise, Participacoes Nippo Brasileira em Complexos Bioenergeticos S.A. (Japanese-Brazilian Participation in Bioenergetic Complexes), will aim...

  Tags: biofuel, Mitsui & Co., Petrobras

• Steel Technologies to Integrate Mitsui Steel's Flat-Rolled Business into Its Operation

  - 2008-03-24

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Steel Technologies Inc. ("Steel Technologies" or the "Company"), today announced that it will integrate the flat-rolled steel business of Mitsui Steel, Inc. ("MSI"), a core Mitsui steel distribution business, into the Company's North American operating platform. This transaction will take place following the merger of MSI into...

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• Management Acquires Hannibal Industries from Mitsui USA

  - 2008-03-24

  LOS ANGELES -- Senior management of Hannibal Industries Inc., led by President Blanton Bartlett, today announced the purchase of the company from Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. Mitsui USA through the formation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP. Financial considerations of the transaction were not disclosed.

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• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mazda Motor, Central Finance and Ford Motor Credit Company to Form Strategic Alliance in Auto Finance Business in Japan

  - 2008-03-13

  Tokyo, Japan, Mar 13, 2008 - JCN Newswire - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation ("SMBC", President; Masayuki Oku), Mazda Motor Corporation ("Mazda", Representative Director, Chairman and President; Hisakazu Imaki), Central Finance Co., Ltd. ("CF", President and Representative Director; Tatsuo Tsuchikawa) and Ford Motor Credit Company LLC ("FMCC", Chairman and CEO; Michael...

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