Sales of BASF Group grew by 3% compared with the previous third quarter, reaching €18.3 billion. A sharp rise in volumes in the Natural Gas Trading business sector was mainly responsible for this growth. Income from operations (EBIT) ...
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New house building figures released by warranty and insurance provider NHBC show that new home registrations have hit their highest level since 2007. The figures for Q3 2014 reveal that overall new home registrations have increased 8% on ...
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China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday the country’s gross domestic product rose 7.3% on the year for three months through September, the slowest growth since the first quarter of 2009. Inflation-adjusted economic ...
Global demand growth for fluorochemicals is forecast to accelerate, rising 3.8 percent per year to 3.8 million metric tons in 2018. Above average growth in higher value products will help drive increases in value demand more than seven ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, one of the leading global suppliers of liquid and powder coatings, has announced the expansion of its global product portfolio to include Alesta ZeroZinc, the next generation of zinc free anticorrosion primers. These ...
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September average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescents) in the China market increased 11% on month to CNY33.9 (US$5.50), while 9W models (equivalent to 60W) fell 7.3% to CNY41.70, according to Digitimes ...
According to the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), August exports increased 4.1 percent from their July level to total 1.05 million net tons. Exports had fallen 3.3 percent in July, after being nearly unchanged in June and ...
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The exports of apparel form India shot up by 17.9 percent in the first five months of the ongoing financial year that began on April 1, 2014, according to the data from the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). In April-August 2014, ...
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China and the U.S. are benefiting from and straining under 35 years of normalized relations. There have been tons of exports shipped from China to our shores during this time. However, none are more important than Chinese culture. The ...
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Saudi Arabia-based Health Water Bottling Company (HWB) has acquired Sidel’s complete PET line to meet the growing demand for bottled water. This acquisition will help HWB to increase its production speed as Sidel claims that the ...
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China's manufacturing sector expanded in August but at a significantly slower pace, as production rates and new orders softened. The Flash China Manufacturing PMI, published by HSBC in conjunction with Markit Economics, fell 1.4 points to ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing output declined in August for the first time in seven months, reflecting a sharp fall in production at auto plants that was due mainly to seasonal adjustment problems. Output at manufacturing ...
The Swedish multinational retail-clothing company H&M has unveiled its first ever collection of ethically produced denims that have been created after assessing the environmental impact from the washing processes. Manufactured using ...
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La Sportiva North America Inc. has made several recent changes in the marketing, events, and customer service teams at to support growth, which it said is being spurred by a sharp spike in the sale of Mountain Running footwear and success ...
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According to Visiongain, a British market research firm, the global flexible packaging market has reached some US$143.83 billion, mostly driven by growing sales of consumer products in emerging nations. In the next decade, the firm ...