Sika has reported record sales in every region and also says that all relevant growth targets for full-year 2014 have been exceeded. An above-average increase in net profit is expected for the business year 2014. In the fourth quarter of ...
Tags: emerging markets, Construction
The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
Tags: Diamond Market, diamond industry
China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
Tags: economic growth, GDP data
Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd is planning to increase investments in emerging markets like Venezuela, as the heavy machinery maker seeks ways to sustain growth amid tough market conditions at home. The company said on Thursday that its auto ...
Tags: Heavy Industry, Emerging Markets
There’s more to celebrate this month than just the holidays – this month also marks the 40th anniversary of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. We all rely – and have come to expect – that plenty of clean water ...
Tags: Clean Water, Agriculture
Universal Sports Network and Lagarde Unlimited announced plans for Beyond the Medals - The Business of Sport, a new, original sports program that provides viewers with an inside look at the world of Olympic sports. Hosted by sports ...
Tags: Rio Olympics, TV Show, Sporting Goods
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 28 September 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $427.7m, up 9% on $391m a year ago but down 2% on $436.3m last quarter (and below the $440-465m forecasted in mid-August). ...
Australia Post has appointed Robert Black as executive general manager, Parcel Services, effective 12 January, 2015. Mr Black will be responsible for the Parcel Services division, which operates the StarTrack brand. The Parcel Services ...
Tags: Australia Post, General Manager, Service
Sustainability has been a concept which regional and national trade associations in Europe has been encouraging coatings producers and their suppliers to adopt to ensure that the coatings sector move in a more environmentally friendly ...
Tags: Marine coatings, coatings
Interim Victorian Transport Association (VTA) CEO Peter Anderson has urged political parties to ‘take the blinkers off” and look at the bigger picture rather than focusing on just one piece of the puzzle. Mr Anderson said the ...
Tags: Melbourne Traffic
Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 176 million ($24.6 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 302 million in the first half of 2013. ...
Tags: Ezz Steel, long steel
The International Trade Practices Unit (UPCI) of the Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE) commenced antidumping procedures for certain pipe and tubular imports from India, Spain and the United States, according to a news release on Tuesday the ...
Tags: steel pipe, carbon steel pipe
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 ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, China Manufacturing
Melbourne’s controversial new road proposal, the East-West Link, which the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects declared an ‘environmental disaster’, has received the backing of the Victorian truckers’ body ...
Tags: VTA, East-West Link tunnel
Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 19 million ($2.65 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 202 million in the first quarter of ...
Tags: Ezz, Loss, Metallurgy