GE partners with GMIS2021 to drive global manufacturing and economic regeneration Tue 25th May 2021 | 04:00 PM (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 25th May, 2021) DUBAI, 25th May, 2021 (WAM) â General Electric (GE) and the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) have announced a partnership to explore the role of digitisation, lean manufacturing, and workplace safety to support the transformation of manufacturing and economic regeneration both in the UAE and globally.
Through joint thought leadership and knowledge-sharing activities, GE will collaborate with the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit to support manufacturers in deploying digitisation, lean processes and safety protocols to improve efficiencies, eliminate waste, lower costs, increase productivity and uptime and enhance employee satisfaction.
UNIDO convenes experts to consider manufacturing responses to COVID-19 and lessons to be learnt
VIENNA, 18 May 2021 - The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) believes that the COVID-19 pandemic brings an opportunity to glean lessons and present feasible solutions to improve the governance of global manufacturing in the face of this and future crises. Opening a virtual high-level expert consultation, “Manufacturing responses to COVID-19: Lessons for governance and policy coordination in the face of global disasters”, UNIDO Director General, LI Yong, said, “This is a chance not be missed.”
The consultation with the 12 eminent experts on economic development is part of UNIDO’s ongoing research work for the Industrial Development Report 2022, entitled
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has moved to establish national policies geared toward the elimination of mercury’s use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).
HAZARDOUS TRADE–In small-scale gold mining, mercury is vaporized in order to extract gold. This creates toxicity in humans when inhaled. (Photo from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization)
The DENR is implementing the “Global Opportunities for Long-term Development of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector (GOLD-ASGM)” project under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
The project will help small miners shift to legal mining that uses mercury-free technology. It will also empower small miners and help raise their income and livelihood by producing higher value-added products such as jewelry from mere raw gold ore.
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