When I was a kid, you had to enter the house through a screened-in porch. There at the back door was a long, rustic Colonial style bench, which was painted a muted, grayish blue. If you sat on it, you could look at the rose bushes that ...
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Reuters reported that Global producers of aluminium ingots are turning away yearly premiums in favour of quarterly pricing for 2013 term shipments to Asia to take advantage of spot premiums that scaled records this year. Traders said that ...
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The general coating industry has declined but specialized coating surface engineering sectors are witnessing strong growth driven by the needs of high-end industries, such as oil and gas and electronics, according to a new report released ...
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Despite the booming profits of TiO2 producers in Europe, they still want to diversify their portfolio into speciality pigments to ensure higher profit margins in the long-term. This switch into specialities is causing concern among ...
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In August Quinn Glass started the implementation of new cold end equipment designed specifically to handle next generation Spirit containers. With taller profiles and higher centres of gravity, the traditional cold end equipment would not ...
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Beyond the short time,demands for steel will maintain lower than supply and the marginal cost for raw materials are heading for decline,and thus the cross year increase for steel prices will perform reasonably. Investments in Real Estate ...
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The Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) announced at its annual press conference that the numbers of exhibitors as well as visitors to the 134 national trade fairs held in Germany in 2011 were higher than at the respective ...
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In the USA, a sharp month-on-month fall of 24.2% in the number of building starts for multiple-dwelling units in May 2012 resulted in a decline of 4.8% in the overall number of building starts. According to the US Census Bureau building ...
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According to statistics released by the Korea Iron and Steel Association(KOSA),South Korea's exports of hot rolled coils(HRC)totaled 343,700 tons in November,slumping by 34%year on year.KOSA added that the slow HRC exports made by the South ...
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The slowdown in shipments from 2011 levels that has characterized the second half of 2012,resumed in November after a brief pick-up in October.Inventory to sales ratios deteriorated slightly across the board. US service centers shipped ...
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Unlike most other sectors supplying the furniture industry,European manufacturers are finding that demand for thermoplastic,malleable furniture films remains well below the level recorded in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis despite ...
Franz Gussek, the manufacturer of Gussek Haus prefabricated housing, will probably produce 520 houses and generate turnover of between €82m and €83m in 2012. This can already be deduced from the current order book. 255 ...
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The volumes of thermally-modified timber sold by the members of the International ThermoWood Association (ITWA) rose again sharply in 2011 by 19.2% to a total of 109,757 m³. As growth of 24% had already been registered the year before, ...
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In the current survey conducted by the German window and façades association (VFF) a total of 47% of companies interviewed from the German window, facade and house door sector reported stable turnover for the first six months of the ...
Parquet consumption in member countries of the European Parquet Industry Federation(FEP)declined again in 2011 by 1.7%to 91.475m m?2 after 2010 had shown a recovery.Increases in Germany(+6.7%), Sweden(+16.6%), Switzerland(+5.8%), ...