China's PMI Decreased in April National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-05-02 16:35:49 Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchases (CFLP) In April, China's manufacturing purchasing ...
In another sign that America is becoming more competitive in manufacturing, the U.S. is now equal to Mexico in “attractiveness” as a source for manufacturing operations and is on track to achieve cost parity with manufactured ...
EPIC publishes European photonics database 26 Apr 2013 Industry survey pegs European photonics market at close to €66?billion in 2012. A new survey of the European photonics ecosystem estimates it to have been worth nearly ...
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Recently, Baosteel Group Co., Ltd. chairman Xu Lejiang and his retinue attends 2013 International Iron and Steel Association Council special session and Executive Committee 49th meeting held in Vienna, Austria. During the meeting, Xu ...
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CEMEX Latam Holdings, S.A. has announced its 1Q13 results, revealing that consolidated net sales (after adjustments for fewer business days in the quarter) increased 3% y/y to US$383 million. Using the same adjustments, operating EBITDA was ...
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Finnish mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider Outotec has issued its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Accordingly, in the first quarter the operating profit of Outotec increased to €31.7 million, up 14.85 ...
In March 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 8.9 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 1.0 percentage ...
The on-going economic crisis poses a serious challenge to the dialogue between workers' and employers' representatives and governments according to a report published today by the European Commission. The report shows that recent government ...
The ICE Brent front-to-second month spread fell into contango during afternoon US trade Friday, the first contango between the two contracts since July 2, 2012. ICE May Brent was down $2.50 at $103.84/b after hitting a fresh eight-month ...
Investment in equipment and software is expected to grow 5.6% in 2013, according to the Q2 update to the 2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook released today by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. The Foundation ...
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Speaking at the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, Cesare Viganò, general manager of Italy-based CLN, presented his outlook for the steel market in 2013. The global steel industry has ...
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In March, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.9 percent, up by 0.8 percentage point month-on-month, and stayed above the threshold for six consecutive months. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of ...
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hongxing Iron and Steel Co., a subsidiary of Gansu-based Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO), has announced that in 2012 its operating revenue amounted to RMB 63.7 billion ($10.24 billion), up by ...
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Boao Forum for Asia 2013 Annual Conference will be held from April 6 to 8 in Boao, Hainan Province. Recently, Boao Forum for Asia's magazine "Boao Observation" teams up new institutional economics originator Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate ...
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At 11th International Steel Market and Trade Conference held on Mar 28-30 in Guangzhou, China, during her speech on China’s macroeconomy and real estate industry, Ren Xingzhou, the director of Institute of Market Economy, Development ...
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