At the 75th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held recently in Paris, Alacero, the Latin American steel association, said the current situation in the steel industry is becoming critical ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Oil demand growth in the US this year is likely to exceed that of China's for the first time since the 1990s, skewing overall global demand in favor of developed markets, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a new report released Friday. ...
Tags: US, China, oil demand
Oculus Innovative Sciences has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new Microcyn scar management HydroGel, intended to manage old and new hypertrophic and keloid scarring resulting from burns, ...
Brazil's national statistics agency (IBGE) has reported that in October this year industrial production in the largest Latin American country increased by 0.6 percent compared to September and was up 0.9 percent from October 2012. In ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that Latin America received 10.6 percent of global exports of finished steel from China in the third quarter of 2013. The volume of finished steel exports to the region from China ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The new "Latin America Online Payment Methods 2013 – Second Half 2013" by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com indicates that online payment continues its growth in the emerging markets of this dynamic region. ...
Tags: online payment, mobile phone, mobile payments, online shopping
The WTO Saturday reached a breakthrough in its multilateral trade negotiation by sealing its first-ever global trade package at its 9th ministerial meeting after 4 Latin American countries gave up objections to the package. Gita Wirjawan, ...
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After a slow recovery period, Mexico's packaging machinery marketplace is coming back strong, according to PMMI's 2013 "Mexico Packaging Machinery Market Study," published in 2013. The study reviews current market data and interviews with ...
Tags: Packaging Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
Tags: the oil and gas industry, private equity, major capital investment
Bayer HealthCare has submitted VEGF Trap-Eye (aflibercept solution for injection) for regulatory approval in Japan to treat patients with myopic choroidal neovascularization (myopic CNV), one of the most common causes of eye disease. In ...
Apollo Tyres Ltd. has completed the sale of some assets in Africa to Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) for $60 million. The deal allows SRI to acquire Apollo Tyres South Africa (ATSA), including the Ladysmith passenger car tyre plant, and ...
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GeoPark Limited ("GeoPark"), the Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and production in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina (AIM: GPK), is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two new ...
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It is reported that Brazil, on the top the Latin American countries, exported 368,977 tons of steel to the US in October, soaring by 56.4% year on year. In total, the US imported 617,123 tons of steel from Latin America in October, ...
Finished steel apparent use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 50 million tons in January-September this year, similar to the same period in 2012, according to Alacero, the Latin American steel association. Finished steel production ...
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Pentair and The Pentair Foundation are working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Water Missions International (WMI), Action Against Hunger and the American Red Cross to help provide funds and support for clean water, and ...
Tags: Pentair, mobilize, resource, support, Typhoon Haiyan, relief, effort