Sentence examples for tonnes it from inspiring English sources

The cash-rich ArcelorMittal has said it plans to increase its iron ore production to 110m tonnes by 2012 or virtually double the 60m tonnes it produced on its own account in 2007.

Zimbabwe has historically been a breadbasket for southern Africa, but last year it only produced half the 2m tonnes it needed to feed its people and livestock.

Now the committee is promising to offset only the 118,000 tonnes it calculates have been generated by its own operations.

At its full capacity of 15m tonnes it will cut by 20-25% the cost of shipping out soya compared with the traditional route, through the port of Paranaguá, says Paulo Fleury of COPPEAD, a business school in Rio de Janeiro.

With a lift-off weight of 20 tonnes, it is Europe's biggest space vessel, and its sophisticated navigation and docking technologies make it one of the most impressive pieces of hardware Esa has ever put in orbit.

But below 12 tonnes, it traps a farmer in poverty.

At £400 a tonne, it is cheaper than soy, rapeseed or sunflower.

Per tonne, it sells for about $125, compared with cocaine, which fetches at least $50m wholesale.

Moreover, the scheme set a virtual price ceiling: if the price goes over $600 a tonne (it is currently $495), the government pockets 95% of the proceeds thereafter.

Calculations by Peter Christoff, associate professor at the University of Melbourne, indicate that even if the fund can continue to buy abatement at $14 a tonne it will fall at least 23% short of the 2020 target, or require almost $750m more.

As maize has both a high yield per hectare and a high yield of biogas per tonne, it has become what the farming press calls the biogas "core crop".