JAKARTA, March 13 (Reuters) - Copper miner Freeport Indonesia has set its copper output target at 1.67 billion pounds in 2025 and 1.58 billion pounds in 2026, its chief executive officer told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday. The company also projected concentrate output at 3.29 million tons in 2025 and 3.15 million tons in 2026. Its gold output target for...

March 13 (Reuters) - German potash and salt miner K+S beat 2024 core profit expectations on Thursday as higher sales volumes from agriculture customers helped to offset lower potash prices. The group reported earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 557.7 million euros ($607.2 million), topping analysts' average forecast of 542.3 million euros, according to Vara Research. Rivals...

* Italian sub-contractor supplied faulty parts for Boeing ( BA ) jets in 2017-20 via Leonardo - prosecutors * Supplier passed repeated audits while allegedly using low-grade metals - court documents * Alleged scam uncovered thanks to chance police find, sources say * Industry experts call for random checks on aviation components By Francesca Landini and Tim Hepher BRINDISI, Italy,...

BRINDISI, Italy (Reuters) - On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of Brindisi, near a small plane components factory. Five years on, that routine pollution case has spiralled into a wide-ranging judicial investigation into how thousands of flawed titanium and aluminium parts manufactured...