According to a company statement, in January this year the long steel division of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) shipped around 110,000 mt of rebar, including 200 mt for export and the rest to the domestic market. In February ...
Tags: long steel, rebar shipments, steel, steelmaker
In the week ended February 15, rising price movements have been recorded in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the generally stable trend observed in the previous week. The following prices were recorded in LME billet ...
Dual interface shipments to exceed the 1 billion mark in 2015. The number of dual interface and pure contactless smart cards is expected to make up 30% of all smart card shipments in 2018, rising from 16% of the 8.6 billion smart cards ...
Tags: Contactless smart cards, smart cards, contactless cards
The share market weakened slightly before upcoming events including the release of European and US economic data, the weekend meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow, and Italian elections the following weekend. ...
A sharp rise in consumer confidence in February fuelled a strong bounce by the dollar yesterday. At 5pm AEDT, the currency was trading at $1.0339, up US0.84c, after touching an intraday high of $US1.0361. A survey published by Westpac ...
More than 1 billion Euro in funding has been raised by companies with roots in Cambridge research, according to year-end results from Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation arm. The company works with University inventors ...
ArcelorMittal Flat Carbon Europe has reported the operation outcome for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012. The steel giant’s Flat Carbon Europe posted operating loss of 2,212 million Euro for the fourth quarter of 2012, ...
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According to the Russian commercial construction sector has predicted the consumption for flat and long steel products are likely to recover in Russia this year. It expects the steel consumption will expect to reach 5.2 million tons ...
Tags: steel consumption, flat steel, long steel
1/3 of computers sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012 was a tablet, according to a survey. The research firm Canalys said that with PCs and tablets combined, the market grew 12 per cent year-on-year in the last three months of ...
Tags: computer sales, PCs, tablets
Sales and profits increased in 2012 at flavours groups Givaudan and Sensient Technologies, although rival IFF saw earnings fall. Givaudan's net income jumped from CHF252m (US$274.5m) in 2011 to CHF411 in 2012 amid higher sales. Revenue ...
Tags: Sales, profits, Flavors, Fragrances
The Exhibition at London Fashion Week has been carefully curated by the British Fashion Council (BFC) to include 120+ designers for AW13. The Exhibition is open to all UK and international media and buyers with registration available on ...
Tags: LFW, Designers, A/W13 Line
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy suffered a dip towards the end of 2012. The country's price, season and calendar adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2012 ...
Tags: Germany, Economic Growth, economy
In the fourth quarter of 2012, France's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.3 percent quarter on quarter after a 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter increase in the third quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by France's ...
Tags: France's GDP, economy, household consumption expenditure
In December last year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production increased by 0.7 percent in the euro area and by 0.5 percent in the EU-27, as compared with November. In November, production had decreased by 0.7 percent and 0.6 percent ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Mineral, economy
Posted by Jack Mans -- Packaging Digest, 2/13/2013 11:06:04 AM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released the 2012 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) information on more than 7,600 chemicals in commerce. The CDR database ...