Asia’s increasing economic clout — backed by population growth and a burgeoning middle class — is forcing changes to the Western-led global corporate order. Late last year, the mayor of a city in suburban Belgrade, ...
Tags: Asia's Economy, World Order
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in February of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 11.49 billion ($1.09 billion), increasing by 7.9 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Metal, Steel
Konstantinos V. Markou S.A. joins Cotton South Africa to become the second laboratory certified under the ICA Bremen ‘International Laboratory Certification Scheme’. Designed to raise the bar in the quality testing arena, ...
A new report by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “Global M-Commerce 2014: Smartphones and Tablets“, covers the latest trends and developments in mobile shopping. Yücel Yelken, CEO of yStats.com ...
Softer coastal freight rates for shipping domestic thermal coal from northern to southern ports in China has put seaborne-traded cargoes at a slight price disadvantage, and renewed downward pressure on CFR South China prices, said traders ...
According to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa, in February this year the country's producer price index (PPI) for the basic iron and steel industry increased by 1.4 percent compared to January and was up 12.5 percent ...
Tags: Steelmakers, iron, steel industry
The price of autocatalyst metal palladium hit its highest since August 2011 on Friday as a miners’ strike in South Africa ground on and concerns grew that the standoff between major producer Russia and the West over Ukraine could ...
Tags: Palladium, Palladium Prices, metal
Chinese buyers refrained from meeting the delivered-price expectations of seaborne cargo sellers in unsettled Asian trade Friday, as weak fundamentals in the domestic market prolonged a week-old standoff between buyers and sellers, said ...
Tags: China Cargo Market, coal producer, thermal coal market
Crude steel production by the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 125 million mt in February, up by just 0.6% on the same month last year. Compared with January 2014, February's average daily production of 4.46 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Crude steel production, steel
The frenzied pace of infrastructural developments in South Africa and Kenya is growing the market for thermoset resins in both countries. Significant government investment, especially in low-cost housing, road and other non-domestic ...
Tags: Construction, Chemicals, Decoration, Thermoset Resins
The increase in infrastructure and maintenance spending by the private and public sector in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya is lending momentum to the industrial paints and coatings market in these countries. Nigeria presents the most ...
Tags: Industrial Paints, Coatings Market, coatings
In another first for South African retail, Woolworths is inviting South Africans – women and men – to become part of a national sizing survey. Themed ‘find your perfect fit’, the aim of this survey is to ensure that ...
Tags: Woolworths, Clothes, national sizing survey
Shipments of PC tablets into the Middle East and Africa expanded 111% year on year in the final quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by IDC, as the overall MEA tablet market reached a total of 3.45 million units for the ...
Tags: Tablet, Computer, PC tablets
Prices of spot delivered thermal coal cargoes into Turkey slipped Friday, following a lower-priced deal for US material and buyers willing to wait for cheaper prices, sources said. Platts assessed the weekly CIF Turkey 6,000 kcal/kg ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, US Deals
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France says that South Africa’s Department of Energy has granted its preliminary approval to a refinancing scheme for Soitec’s equity position in the 44MWp ...
Tags: Soitec, CPV, Green Energy