WASHINGTON -- The US House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a bill designed to ban so-called "conflict minerals" -- tin and other ores mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
NORTH BILLERICA, MA -- BTU International today reported first-quarter net sales rose 75.3% year-over-year to $17.2 million. The maker of reflow and other ovens said its net loss for period ended April 4 was $300,000, up from a net loss of $4.6 million a year ago.