OverviewContact us On these pages we present information about our products and innovations OverviewContact OverviewJob PortalHow we hireContact & FAQ OverviewContact us OverviewContact Us 2025. Continental will host the Continental Total Conveyance Event to mark the expansion of its Ponta Grossa plant in Brazil highlights the company’s commitment to innovation in conveyor belt manufacturing “The expansion of our Ponta Grossa plant reflects our strong commitment to innovation and customer-centric solutions in the conveyor belt industry,” said Philip Nelles Member of the Continental Executive Board and CEO of the ContiTech group sector we are reinforcing our ability to deliver high-quality high-performance conveyor belts that meet the evolving needs of our customers across South America This investment underscores our dedication to setting new industry standards while strengthening our regional presence.” The Ponta Grossa plant expansion project comes at a pivotal time as demand continues to rise for essential raw materials such as iron ore and bauxite – resources that ContiTech’s customers in the mining sector extract and transport daily These raw materials are vital to powering critical projects like electrification By expanding production of its high-performance steel cord conveyor belts Continental is well positioned to support the mining industry’s need for durable The investment not only strengthens Continental’s role in enabling the flow of these high-demand resources but also demonstrates the company's material expertise and deep understanding of its customers' operational needs CEO of ContiTech USA and Head of Business Area Industrial Solutions Americas emphasized the significance of the Continental Total Conveyance Event and ribbon-cutting ceremony “We are excited to welcome our customers and guests to the Continental Total Conveyance Event and ribbon-cutting ceremony Our investment to expand the capacity of our Ponta Grossa facility demonstrates our commitment to delivering innovative high-performance solutions for the customers we have the privilege to serve By producing the world’s strongest steel cord conveyor belts we are not only addressing the increasing demand for high-strength solutions but also setting new benchmarks for performance and reliability in the industry This event reflects our dedication to supporting key industries with advanced conveyor belt technology.” The Continental Total Conveyance Event offers mining industry professionals a hands-on experience with the Continental Conveyor Belt Experience Attendees will explore the latest advancements in conveyor belt technology and learn how Continental is shaping the industry’s future Continental’s Total Conveyance Solutions offering is the complete portfolio of products and sustainable transportation of materials across various industries – such as mining end-to-end material handling solution – delivering not just conveyor belts and expertise to support modern material transport needs Continental’s investment in expanding heavy-duty steel cord conveyor belt production will help meet local and regional demand The new production lines feature advanced rubber mixing and inspection technologies to ensure quality and efficiency at every stage 2024. Continentalannounced the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Ponta Grossa Brazil to accommodate the production of heavy-duty steel cord conveyor belts The Ponta Grossa plant is now the second location from Continental’s group sector ContiTech to manufacture belts rated up to ST10000 which is considered the world’s strongest belt rating made to withstand extreme conditions.  “With the expansion of our plant’s capacity in Ponta Grossa we are raising the standards in the production of the world’s most durable belts,” said Andreas Gerstenberger head of business area Industrial Solutions Americas at Continental’s group sector ContiTech “Our goal is to double or even triple our production over the next few years and by producing heavy duty steel cord conveyor belts in Brazil we’ll be able to shorten product shipping timelines and better meet the needs of our customers in South America the world's largest regional market for heavy steel cord belts.” Continental’s investment to expand the production of heavy-duty steel cord conveyor belts will allow the business to better address the demand from local and international markets The expansion includes production lines featuring advanced new rubber mixing with the aim of guaranteeing excellence at every stage of the process.  “Building the additional capacity at our Ponta Grossa facility is a testament to our commitment to advancing our manufacturing capabilities utilizing the latest manufacturing technology,” said Tomas Kostenec Industrial Solutions Americas at Continental “By producing the world’s strongest steel cord conveyor belts we are not only meeting the rigorous demands of our customers for high strength belts but also setting new standards in the industry.” The Phoenix Phoenocord ST10000 conveyor belt can be manufactured in lengths weighing up to 60 metric tons Phoenix Phoenocord belts have been proven to handle the most extreme conveyor belt applications, delivering extreme durability and reliable performance with high-capacity and high-breaking strength These capabilities make it the perfect belt for above and below ground use for a multitude of industries including hard rock mining and other extreme material handling applications CEO: Koki Ando) is pleased to announce that the Company has decided to construct a new plant in Ponta Grossa The construction starts in June 2024 and is scheduled to complete in March 2026 This is the third plant to be constructed by the Company following the Ibiuna Plant in the state of Sao Paulo and the Gloria do Goita Plant in the state of Pernambuco JAPANESE report that heavy rain between 09 and 12 January has caused widespread flooding in 49 municipalities of the state The heavy rain has also caused several landslides in 5 municipalities the floods have affected over 150,000 people and forced over 2,000 to evacuate their homes Five people have been injured and one is missing Defesa Civil do Paraná say that 74 homes have been completely destroyed A landslide in Campo Largo affected 405 people and displaced five Landslides were also reported in Campina Grande do Sul Over 90,000 of those affected are in Arapongas municipality near the city of Londrina in the north of the state of Paraná Only 25 people have been displaced however Over 9,000 homes have been damaged and 50 destroyed 36,240 people have been affected by the flooding in Rolândia Over 1,700 have been affected by floods in Londrina with 337 homes damaged and 50 people displaced Londrina recorded 180 mm of rain in 24 hours between 11 and 12 January 2016 and 91 mm the day before visited some of the affected areas on 14 January 2016 to see the damage for himself including the destroyed broad bridge across the Rio Parapó between Iguaraçu and Maringá Flooding affected wide areas of Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil in late December 2015 after a period of heavy rain As many 2,000 families (around 9,000 people) were forced to evacuate in 12 municipalities including Uruguaiana Civil defence authority in Rio Grande do Sul said earlier this week that 56 municipalities suffered damage with the remainder under evaluation and proof of damage Several rivers in the state have overflowed in particular the Uruguay River in Uruguaiana municipality According to the latest reports from Rio Grande do Sul civil defence river levels were at 11.18 metres on 27 December which is over 3 metres above alert levels and over 6 metres above normal levels More photos of the flood damage in Paraná state Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList Petrobras carried out an oil spill simulation Brazil’s Potiguar basin in the offshore POT-M-762 exploration block The drill was carried out in compliance with a condition presented by Ibama as a step for obtaining a drilling license for the Pitu Oeste and Anhangá wells in the Potiguar basin The Potiguar Basin covers maritime portions of the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará and is part of the so-called Brazilian Equatorial Margin which extends between the states of Amapá and Rio Grande do Norte The region is considered one of the world's newest and most promising frontiers in deep and ultra-deep waters Recent oil and gas discoveries announced in regions continuing to these borders especially in neighboring Guyana and Suriname indicate significant oil production potential for the Brazilian Equatorial Margin Brazil's new borders are essential to ensure national energy security and sovereignty in a context of energy transition and low-carbon economy about 440 people were mobilized during two days for the exercise and 20 vessels were mobilized to simulate oil containment and collection an outpost was set up with a medical unit and two ambulances the teams were committed to meeting demands and articulating the necessary for the progress of operations Petrobras' Director of Exploration and Production "Any drill that is part of our routine teaches us a lot so that we feel ready for possible real events We are seeking licensing for a new frontier an extremely important area for Petrobras and I am convinced that there are four Environmental Defense Centers (CDAs) Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte; in addition to nine other CDAs All these structures are properly equipped for prompt response in the event of accidental events involving oil spills at sea in order to minimize damage to the environment even if the probability of an event of this nature occurring is very low explained that Petrobras continuously improves its emergency response capacity "This drill represents a final stage of several years of work Our EOR team worked very well orchestrated showing that we are fully able to meet all demands related to the protection of the environment and resources opens up new perspectives for us to operate in the Equatorial Margin as a whole.” Various vegetable ingredients are being used or have been proposed to replace ingredients like fishmeal to enhance the cost-effectiveness of aquafeeds the cell walls of cereals and legumes currently used in tilapia feeds are widely known to impair the nutritive value of the feed resulting in a negative impact on the growth performance and health of the fish vegetable ingredients possess antinutritional factors that interfere with the absorption or hinder the bioavailability of nutrients such as phytate and non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) exogenous [of external origin] enzymes – including phytase and β-glucanase – have been proposed to enhance the nutritive value of plant-based aquafeeds Phytate is the main form of unavailable phosphorus in legumes and cereals The enzyme phytase increases the availability of phosphorus and other nutrients such as protein which are mainly composed of cellulose [an important structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants] arabinoxylans [dietary fiber found in cereal grains] and β-glucans [sugars found in the cell walls of fungi increase intestinal viscosity and decrease the activity of digestive enzymes and digestibility the presence of non-starch polysaccharides and phytate exerts negative impacts on nutrient utilization and which is the proliferation of cyanobacterial algae responsible for giving fish an off-flavor the addition of phytase and exogenous carbohydrases [enzymes that turn carbohydrates into simple sugars] has been proposed to increase the nutritional value of plant-based diets and reduce the output of nitrogen and phosphorus from aquaculture operations this study evaluated the growth performance of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings fed extruded diets based on wheat bran and soybean meal supplemented with a liquid blend of exogenous phytase and xylanase-β-glucanase https://www.aquaculturealliance.org/advocate/look-protease-enzymes-crustacean-nutrition/ All experimental procedures for fish were performed following the guidelines of the State University of Ponta Grossa Animal Care and Use Committee (Protocol No Fish were anesthetized (100 mg/L) and euthanized (600 mg/L) with tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) A control diet based on soybean meal was supplemented with 341 g/kg crude protein and 7 g/kg total phosphorus (dry matter basis) three different experimental diets were created by adding phytase (PHY; 1,000 phytase units per kg xylanase and 500 thermostable glucanase units TGU are used to measure and describe the activity of these enzymes under very specific conditions The third diet was created by combining PHY and XB and a blend of xylanase and β-glucanase (Natugrain®) exogenous enzymes (BASF The enzymes were dissolved in soybean oil and sprayed onto the tops of the extruded diets This study was carried out in a completely randomized design with four treatments and four replicates of 17 fish Fish (n = 272; initial body weight 22.52 ± 0.20 grams) were distributed into 16-200-liter fiberglass tanks The water temperature and dissolved oxygen were maintained at 27.2 ± 1.3 degrees-C and 5.85 ± 0.51 mg/L the fish were hand-fed six times daily for 42 days fish were weighed and assessments of whole-body composition (four fish per tank) and vertebral mineral content (two fish per tank) were made feces were collected daily from each experimental tank to determine the apparent digestibility of protein (N × 6.25) and phosphorus The resulting data were then entered into ANOVA and the means were compared by Tukey’s test (p < 0.05) The growth performance of the Nile tilapia fingerlings is shown in Table 1 and feed conversion ratio were optimized in fish fed PHY and PHY+XB diets when compared to the control group (CON); while there was no difference among fish groups fed PHY The whole-body proximate composition and the vertebral ash content are shown in Table 2 Whole-body moisture and crude protein content were not affected by dietary treatments (p > 0.05) fish fed a diet supplemented with a combination of phytase xylanase and β-glucanase (PHY+XB) showed higher whole-body lipids there was no difference in whole-body and vertebral ash between fish fed PHY and PHY+XB diets and β-glucanase revealed a synergic effect reducing phosphorus and nitrogen excretion in the fish fish fed the PHY+XB diet showed reduced phosphorus and nitrogen excretion by 50.9 percent and 30.3 percent improved the growth performance of Nile tilapia fingerlings xylanase and β-glucanase exerted synergistic effects on reduced phosphorus and nitrogen excretion and can thus contribute to sustainable aquaculture in addition to their positive growth performance effects The results of this study support the hypothesis that the addition of phytase xylanase and β-glucanase would improve the growth performance of Nile tilapia that are fed all-vegetable diets These exogenous enzymes play an important role in reducing potentially harmful phosphorus and nitrogen in the aquatic environment It is important to note that exogenous liquid enzymes are affected by high-temperature conditions during the grinding and drying processes involved in producing fish feed liquid enzymes may be top-coated after the drying process providing a high residual level on the extruded pellets … please consider supporting GSA’s mission to advance responsible seafood practices through education The Advocate aims to document the evolution of responsible seafood practices and share the expansive knowledge of our vast network of contributors By becoming a Global Seafood Alliance member you’re ensuring that all of the pre-competitive work we do through member benefits Individual membership costs just $50 a year Researchers at the Oceanic Institute studied the effects of pond water on the biology of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei).  D and L are considered critical in fish muscle post-mortem modifications or gel softening during the setting of surimi.  the authors examined the potential of feed additives to increase growth and feed utilization in Nile tilapia.  Organic acids and autolyzed yeast products can reduce the impact of pathogens like microorganisms supporting performance and profitability.  The Responsible Seafood Advocate supports the Global Seafood Alliance’s (GSA) mission to advance responsible seafood practices through education Ponta Grossa is a 350,000 inhabitants town in the Brazilian southern state of Parana View important Copyright © information related to freeware files here The archive pontagro.zip has 43 files and directories contained within it This list displays the first 500 files in the package Signing-up for PRO gives you super fast, unrestricted speed to the thousands of MSFS, FSX, P3D & X-Plane downloads which include aircraft, 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and his own terrible sense of desolation Like The Iliad, The Odyssey is a synthesis of the most relevant and ubiquitous oral stories and tales told by Homer’s civilisation We developed a method of extracting the social information from the story based on the interactions of the characters with one another – this was quite an effort because in many cases it’s not clear in the story who is talking to whom; we looked at various translations to make sure we weren’t being misled in our interpretations We also compared its characteristics to networks on Facebook We found substantial evidence of a “real-life” social structure in The Odyssey. Notably, the characters in each chapter or scene described in the poem’s 24 books corresponded almost precisely to cliques in real-life networks It led us to wonder: did Homer have a profound understanding of networks or did he copy key details about his characters and their interactions from elsewhere this time excluding mythological characters like gods and monsters The remaining network was even more similar to what you would expect in real life we ran an analysis that excluded the human characters and kept the mythological ones and were left with an entirely fictional network The obvious conclusion is that The Odyssey is an amalgam of real and fictional characters We also looked at to what extent certain characters in the story make connections in the way you would expect in the real world heroes and beasts that form the story’s assembly of the gods was not in line with how people make contacts they tended to interact with an abnormally large number of characters in other communities – displaying the sort of omnipresence we might associate with a god the human characters in The Odyssey made connections in ways comparable to people on Facebook today it seems that Homer was not just telling stories but reflecting events and characters that existed in ancient Greece It underlines the historical importance of his writings and also raises the possibility of using the same technique to evaluate other historical works before someone uses complex networks theory on the Bible This is the frightening moment a man fell into a manhole and drowned before he was found in a stream in Brazil The incident took place Saturday in the southern city of Ponta Grossa when João Alves A security camera recorded Alves moving with difficulty when he approached the uncovered sewer hole near a residence and him falling into the opening Alves was dragged down the pipe and found a little more than half a mile away stuck to tree branches in the stream Ponta Grossa fire department sub-lieutenant Amauri Pedroso told Braizlian news outlet G1 that the manhole was sufficiently big 'to fit a whole person Alves was initially reported missing after he failed to show up at his home His grandmother became increasingly concerned when she found his slipper on the street near the manhole 'We knew that the neighbor had a security camera and we saw what had happened,' Alves' niece 'We filed a police report and called the firefighters.' 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