MOSCOW, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the appointment of Andrey Deineko as its Steel Division Director.

Andrey Deineko (54) will be in charge of developing Mechel's steel segment, carrying out operational management, planning, and controlling operations of Mechel's steel assets.

DUBAI, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Distribution Facility to Cash in on US$3 Billion Pharmaceutical Industry Growing at 9% Per Annum

Newly formed pan-Gulf pharmaceutical storage and distribution firm, Pharma World Holdings, is setting up a state of the art facility within the United Arab Emirates, the first ever 3PL pharmaceutical provider in the region, to capitalize on an industry estimated to be worth around $3 billion per annum.

The newly established firm brings a track record of expertise to the region being a 50/50 venture between UAE based Ithmar Capital Fund I and Banaja International Group.

AUSTIN, Texas, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

LUMINARY MICRO STAND NUMBER: 9-204 EMBEDDED WORLD 26th - 28th February 2008 NUREMBERG, GERMANY

Luminary Micro (http://www.luminarymicro.com), creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R) family of ARM Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), will be exhibiting at the Embedded World Show 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany. Luminary Micro will showcase its wide range of Stellaris microcontrollers as well as its new BLDC Motor Control Reference Design Kit and the Automation System Demo incorporating conveyor belts and four robotic arms and using Ethernet and CAN communications to drive the automation.

PUERTOLLANO, Spain and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Castilla-La Mancha Site is Major Milestone in Commercialization of Concentrator Photovoltaics

SolFocus, designer and manufacturer of solar energy solutions including concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, intelligent tracking systems, and solar thermal technology, and Spain's Institute of Concentration Photovoltaics Systems (ISFOC) today announced the installation of the first CPV array in the ISFOC's 3 MW project in Castilla-LaMancha. This is the first 200kW of the .5MW that SolFocus will install over the next few months for this worldwide solar initiative aimed at accelerating the development and adoption of CPV technology.

LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Classifieds Help Fulfill Consumers' Resolutions to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in the New Year

Oodle (http://www.oodle.co.uk/), a whole new kind of classifieds, today released 3 easy tips to help consumers "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" as part of their New Year's Resolutions to maintain a greener lifestyle.

Resolutions to "go green" and reduce carbon footprints were very popular for 2008, and Reuse is one of the best ways to keep useful items out of landfills. Green resolutions were particularly popular in the U.K., topping more lists even than those in the U.S.