China announced revisions to it subsidy program for companies breaking old transport ships and single-hulled tankers Monday, but industry insiders said this would do little to cut restrictions on what ships could be broken. "This will ...
Tags: Ship Breakers, Subsidy Scheme
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
At the 75th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held in Paris on December 5-6, the participants discussed the slow growth prospects in the global steel market, exchanged views on the effect ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy, OECD
The pharmaceutical industry demands for UPW for injection (WFI) and UPW for cleaning process equipment and other uses will result in purchases close to $500 million in 2017 up from $425 million this year. This is the latest forecast in the ...
Tags: consumables, health
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jeff Bezos' idea to let self-guided drones deliver packages may be too futuristic for Washington to handle. The Amazon CEO is working on a way to use the small aircraft to get parcels to customers in 30 minutes or less. ...
Tags: Amazon, Delivery Drones
Penetration rate in 2013 for low priced direct-view type LED TVs has already increased to around 50 percent. As 2013 comes to a close, various large brand TV manufacturers are already preparing to launch new models in 2014. Large Korean ...
Tags: LED, LED TV, TV, Consumer Electronics
Digital printing on glass unleashes designers from restrictions on their imagination, while offering quick turnaround on short run and custom capabilities. The speed and flexibility of this new technology allows decorators and fabricators ...
New Terntank tankers will feature the first Wartsila 2-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel engines Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading provider of innovative products, solutions and services, has announced that its new 2-stroke, ...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has fully validated and granted accelerated assessment to Boehringer Ingelheim's application for European marketing authorization of faldaprevir, a potent second generation oral protease inhibitor. ...
Changes to hours-of-service (HOS) regulations make it difficult for truck drivers to drive rested, operate efficiently and earn a living, a member of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) told Congress. “Less ...
The upcoming years will be tough for the transportation industry in the United States, FedEx Freight president and CEO William Logue said at the annual National Industrial Transportation League conference in Houston. Logue praised the ...
Tags: U.S., trucking, curbed, infrastructure, FedEx, freight, CEO
The European Ferrous Recovery and Recycling Association (EFR) has published the findings of a study evaluating the impact of the measures recommended by the European Commission's Steel Action Plan on the recycling industry. EFR is ...
Tags: Steel Action, Mineral
Ikea pulled a story about a lesbian couple from its customer magazine in Russia because of that country's "restrictions on promoting homosexual relationships," the Associated Press reports. A spokeswoman for the Swedish home furnishings ...
Tags: Ikea, omit, story, customer magazine, Russia
In October the CEP-Indicator of Economic Sentiment for China declines to 4.5 points. The CEP-Indicator captures the expectations of financial market experts regarding the economic development in China over the course of the next twelve ...
Tags: CEP, economic, expectation, China, decline
Following iPhone 5S adoption of dual-flash LED, smartphones are expected to set off a new dual color flash LED trend. The market is very optimistic about growth in demand for flash LED. The two main supply chains for flash LED are separated ...
Tags: Flip Chip, Flash LED Market