The Department of Commerce made a final determination, Oct. 10, that Chinese manufacturers are dumping solar panels into the U. S. Market at less than fair value, and moved to impose tariffs on imports of Chinese crystalline silicon ...
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At the beginning of October, Klausner Holz Thüringen started to dismantle the sawmill plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland. Prior to that, the bankruptcy and execution agency in the district of Imboden in Trin had approved the start of ...
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Beijing International UnionExpo Co. Ltd. Has been forced to postpone the Fenestration China 2012 tradeshow, which was scheduled November 8-10, as a result of travel restrictions the Chinese government has placed for the 18th National ...
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USA-based flooring group Armstrong is selling its kitchen and bathroom furniture activities, which are consolidated in the cabinets business division, to American Industrial Partners for a price of US$27m. Both companies announced a ...
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Homag encountered a significant slump in Eastern European business in the first half of 2012. Order intake (excluding commercial products, replacement parts and services) was down 39.2% compared with last year. The company blamed this on ...
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Homag is to supply Swedwood with a second reacTec unit during the fourth quarter of 2012. The first plant had now been installed at an unnamed Swedwood location in Poland. The machinery ordered by Swedwood in the fourth quarter of 2011 ...
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After-holiday market of glass still appears positive trend and price rises generally all over the country. Price of Shenyang increases 1.6%, Beijing rises 1.8%, increasing range of Qinhuangdao is 1.2%-2.9%, Shanghai is 1%, Xi’an is ...
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(China Glass Network) The high productivity of glass industry brings excess capacity. The glass industry steps in positive situation of supply-exceed-demand. De-stocking is now the most significant thing in glass industry. Along with ...
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On 1 October, the Canadian firm Kaycan completed its take-over of Pfleiderer’s North American wood-based panels activities, pooled in Uniboard Canada. Uniboard presently employs some 800 workers at four sites located in ...
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How can it be that a company clever enough to satisfy Apple’s famously stringent requirements can’t figure out how to keep its workers from killing themselves and hurting one another? Last week’s riot at a Foxconn ...
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Holcim is to close its cement factory in the Hungarian city of Labatlan (N Hungary) by next year, communications director of Holcim Hungaria Zrt., Iren Marta told local press on Monday. According to reports in MTI, Holcim originally planned ...
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ACC Ltd, part of the Holcim Group, reported that its production in September rose by nine per cent to 1.82Mt from 1.67Mt in the same month of 2011. Dispatches reached 1.80Mt, compared with 1.73Mt, an increase of four per cent. For the first ...
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Saudi Arabian cement manufacturer Yamama Cement anounced a 17% increase in net profit for the nine months to September 30 of $171.7m (SR: 644m), compared with $146.4m (SR: 549m) last year. The company said that it had increased net profits ...
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With over 70% of space already taken up with four months left for the event, organisers of Intersec 2013 have their sights set on reaching the 1, 000 exhibitor milestone. The region s largest and most representative trade platform for ...
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MDF/HDF prices have come under mounting pressure again in the course of recent weeks after stabilising briefly in July and August. Central European MDF/HDF manufacturers have run their mills at relatively normal levels again since August ...
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