EU car sales dropped significantly in 2012, due to the ongoing debt crisis and the economic crisis, falling to the lowest level in 17 years. Newly registered vehicles in 2012 were 12,053,904 units in 2012, down 8.2% over 2011. It’s ...
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Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Printing & Packaging Machinery and Ryobi have signed a pact to study the possibility of establishing a joint venture company for sheetfed printing technology. The two Japan-based press ...
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Rattled with economic woes, several Egyptian textile producers are being forced to close down their manufacturing units or operate at reduced capacities due to high cost of imported raw materials and a decline in demand for garments in ...
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This past week, Novozymes was the only company in the biotechnology industry sector to receive a top gold ranking from the Swiss-based sustainability investment group Robeco SAM. Novozymes was also ranked 19th in the Global 100 list of ...
Spanish companies have invested billions of dollars in American solar energy since US President Barack Obama has been in office, The Huffington Post reports. Obama was sworn in for a second term yesterday, 20 January, and will give his ...
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Garments Exporters Association (GEA) has requested the Government to provide adequate fiscal relief for the garment sector of the textile industry to enable it to face increasing international competition. GEA has pointed out that garment ...
Technology applied to photovoltaic systems is making great strides ahead achieving noteworthy performance levels versus the recent past. For example traditional panels will be replaced by photovoltaic facades making large architectural ...
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As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy continued to grow on an annual average in 2012. The country's price adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012 increased by 0.7 percent compared to the ...
The organic market in the UK is being stifled by poor marketing and the economic crisis, according to major players in the industry. The Soil Associaton is not getting the organic message across to the UK public: Philip Wilkinson, 2 ...
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FY sales up 1.2% to EUR66.7bn (US$88.7bn) Momentum slows in Q4 Reconfirms EBIT guidance German retailer Metro Group has reported a slight lift in overall net sales in 2012, enabling the firm to reconfirm its operating ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced that its sales revenues in December, 2012 amounted to NT$15.239 billion, falling by 16.8% year on year, affected by decreased steel prices. In December, the ...
True to their tradition, textile and clothing shops in Spain have started offering discounts (rebajas) on the purchase of their products from the next day of Reyes, the day of the Kings, usually celebrated on January 6 each year. ...
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Mario Sala,Area Manager of Italia's leading steel supplier Tuxor expressed the company's operations and the general situation of the steel markets at the SteelOrbis Spring'12 Conference and 66th IREPAS Meeting held in London. Could you ...
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Friends Provident International said that UAE investors are increasingly turning to real estate as a preferred asset class. Almost half of respondents said that they expect the property market to perform strongly over the next 5 years.A ...
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George Adams is President of SA Recycling,located in Anaheim,California,and he has been in the family-owned scrap metal business(Adams Steel)since 1977.Originally started by George's father 35 years ago as a single scrap metal facility,SA ...
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