Though the resilient category isn't in the clear just yet, conditions are improving_ as much as the flooring industry can improve in this economy. In this case, improving means 2010 may be the end to a consistent drop in category sales ...
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Coming off what most industry executives considered be a terrible 2009, the ceramic segment was looking for something, anything resembling a turnaround heading into 2010. And while certain indicators signaled a modest increase of 5% to 6% ...
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Freedom Of Creation's(FOC)modular wall system Macedonia Space Divider has been chosen by the leading UK Interior Design practice Margolis Office Environment for the interiors of the new RI3K offices in London.The vivid blue hexagons of ...
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Picture of a Ceramic Industry in Yimen, Yunnan Province A drought attacked Yunnan Province last year, but this year, the condition seemed to be favorable and electric power was abundant enough. Even so, the Yimen the production area in the ...
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2011, affect pigment industry are the factors of economic operation of the domestic macroeconomic trends and control policy guiding, relevant industry development trend, and the world economic recovery prospects etc. One domestic factors is ...
Executives reflect on the past year in coatings and look ahead to what the future might bring. Charles Bunch, chairman and CEO, PPG Industries The strategic actions that PPG has undertaken over the past decade have served to transform our ...
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Russia is once again one of the fastest growing coatings markets in Europe with the strong likelihood that it will soon be the region's largest by value. However there are doubts about whether it will be able to keep up the pace of ...
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Insituform Technologies, Inc. said that its subsidiary, CRTS, Inc., has been awarded a $48.4 million contract from Snamprogetti Saudi Arabia Ltd., a subsidiary of Eni S.p.A., to provide robotic coating of internal field joints for Saudi ...
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International Paint's protective coatings business opened a £6.4 million (€7.1 million) testing laboratory for fire protection products at its Felling, UK site. "The new facility significantly improves our ability to develop and ...
Riding China's unprecedented home construction growth is at best a short-term strategy. What happens when this growth levels out or worse, declines? How would you measure success in a market that just a handful of years ago did not exist? ...
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At the end of 2009, following back-to-back years of devastating, unparalleled loses, most industry executives said the upcoming year couldn't get any worse. Well, on one hand they were essentially correct. But, just because things didn't ...
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On June 2nd, 2011, the Korea Trade Commission announced a verdict that Korea will implement an anti-dumping tariff rate ranging from 9.14% to 29.42% on China's tile suppliers as well as 16.07% on other ceramic suppliers. Furthermore, the ...
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The Denver Art Museum is currently showing an exhibition of large-scale,site-specific ceramic installations-including a work comprised of suspended clay forms,the largest weighing 300 lbs.,and a 23-foot ceramic chandelier. The ...
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Panda, a very famous and lovely animal in Sichuan of China, loves to eat bamboo very well. Every day, they eat 20 to 25 kg of bamboo shoot. They prefer to eat 2 species of bamboo, Fargesia Robusta Yi and B. Fangiana Keng. This is proof how ...
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We judge books by the cover, people on appearance, restaurants by the menu. Who says we have to look inside to find true meaning? In the case of underlayments, one would do well to look at what's beneath that floor covering when judging ...
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