Indicative of a 7 percent quarter-on-quarter hike, Pakistani textile firms booked Pk Rs. 8.9 billion in profits during January-March this year, indicating a growth of 180 percent year-on-year. According to The Nation report, the joint ...
Tags: Textile
MICROSOFT is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal ...
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The Brazilian coil and sections producer, Companhia Siderúrgica de Suape (CSS), announced that it will start to construct the mill workshop late this year. The rolling mill will be built in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. ...
China Steel Corp (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced that its cold rolling and coil-coating project in Vietnam will start to produce in the third quarter of 2013. This plant which owns annual capacity of 1.2 ...
Tags: CSC, Steel, Construction&Decoration
SHARES in specialist telecoms construction firm Service Stream crashed to an all-time low yesterday as the company failed to rally against the negative fallout of breaching its banking covenants. Service Stream shares touched a record low ...
Much-hacked social networking site Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication in a bid to cut down on the hijacking of accounts. The move follows a string of hacks of high-profile accounts by groups such as the ...
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Continuing speculation about the future of the US Federal Reserve's asset-purchasing program in the wake of congressional testimony by Chairman Ben Bernanke sent the dollar sharply higher Wednesday, and augmented downward pressure on the ...
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After indicating increasing demand for design services for the better part of a year, the Architecture Billings Index has reversed course in April. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate ...
Tags: Architecture Billings, Lighting
The local sharemarket fell in cautious trade yesterday before US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to US congress and the release overnight of the minutes of this month's Fed board meeting. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed ...
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Miso, the main ingredient in that cloudy broth you may have had in Japanese restaurants, is relatively high in sodium, with about 630 milligrams per tablespoon. So if you are prone to high blood pressure, you might want to use the ...
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After indicating increasing demand for design services for the better part of a year, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reversed course in April. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the April ABI score was 48.6, down ...
The UK glass manufacturing operation of Guardian Industries global glass group will host a Triple Anniversary Celebration (1, 5 and 10 years) to recognize its consistent growth over a decade of challenge and change. Guardian will ...
Affected by the price dip of steel flat products in the Taiwanese steel market, the prices of carbon steel pipes have already decreased NT$600/ton in May. It’s known that the Taiwanese steel pipe mills have offered some ...
Tags: Taiwan, Steel Pipe, Construction
Ciech published its report for Q1 2013. EBITDA (operating profit plus the value of depreciation/amortisation) amounted to PLN 132 million, compared to PLN 95 million in Q4 2012 and PLN 126 million in the same period a year earlier. ...
India’s textile exports for the current fiscal year 2013-14 are likely to grow by 15 percent over last year, Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi has said. During the first eleven months of last fiscal year, India ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile