The Hyundai ix35 small SUV has been given a mid-life refresh that includes updated petrol engines, revised suspension tuning and small price increases for most models. A $26,990 starting price continues for the base model ix35 Active 2WD, ...
Tags: Hyundai IX35, Engineering
Consumers and small businesses will be allowed to cancel their mobile, broadband and landline contracts if they are subjected to price increases on a fixed-term contract, under new guidance set out by communications regulator Ofcom. Ofcom ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
After hitting the highest level in nearly four years, existing-home sales declined in September, but limited inventory conditions continued to pressure home prices in much of the country, according to the National Association of Realtors. ...
Tags: Construction
Global reinsurance firms Munich Re, Swiss Re and Hannover Re have started contract talks for 2014 with insurance firms, amid growing competition from pension funds, due to increased capital investment. The steady growth of investment by ...
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The increased demand for sapphire substrates in non LED applications including for smartphone camera lens caps plus home button covers, the supply and demand situation has had a turnaround. Sapphire substrate used in smartphones will take ...
Tags: Monocrystal, LED applications
SABMiller plc today provides an update on trading during the six months ended 30 September 2013. The calculation of the organic growth rates excludes the impact of acquisitions and disposals on net producer revenue and volumes. Alan ...
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With home prices and household formations rising and household balance sheets healing, the ongoing housing recovery is expected to gain momentum next year even as several challenges remain, according to economists who participated in the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
A small upturn in prices for sub-5,000 kcal/kg NAR Chinese thermal coal on perceived stirrings of restocking activity for the upcoming northern hemisphere winter and some market tightness was seized on by traders Friday. South China ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University has developed a titanium nitride/copper (TiN/Cu) gate structure for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that shows improvements over a comparison ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, Electronics
Existing-home sales increased in August and reached the highest level in six-and-a-half years, while the median price shows nine consecutive months of double-digit year-over-year increases, according to the National Association of Realtors. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Following a €50/MT price increase on August 1st 2013, Arkema announces a further €50/MT price increase effective early September for its entire Evatane range (high content Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymers). Both price ...
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The outlook for coatings producers in Europe has suddenly brightened after prospects for higher sales and profits appeared to be gloomy earlier in the year. The financial results of some leading players among coatings producers and raw ...
Tags: Construction, Coatings
The Western and Eastern European market is finding recycled containerboard in increasingly tight supply: The sun has been shining in much of Europe and demand is up…helping to bring the Eurozone out of a long recession. Testliner ...
Ahlstrom is increasing prices in the fourth quarter of 2013 for its filtration materials globally. Ahlstrom says that the price increases will be made to compensate for the continued rise in raw material costs such as speciality pulps, ...
The Export Price Index (IPRIX) in Spain showed a decline of 0.5 percent year-on-year in the textile sector in July 2013, according to the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). This is the second consecutive monthly ...
Tags: Textile Export