Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and, for the fifth consecutive quarter, an improvement in Return on sales (ROS) – from 8.0 percent to 9.1 percent. Excluding restructuring costs of €55 million, ROS was 10.6 ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Performance Coatings
Starting April 2015, tobacco companies in India will have to cover 85% of both sides of cigarette packs or other tobacco products with graphics and text warnings about adverse health effects. This will turn India into the country with the ...
Tags: cigarette packs, packages
The GfK Consumer Climate Europe study for the third quarter of 2014 paints a gloomy outlook for the European economy, noting in particular that while there is a backdrop of growth in the UK, the Scottish referendum harmed consumer ...
Green Energy Technology (GET) has no plans to expand in-house solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer production capacity, company president Swean Lin said at an October 14 press conference for the upcoming PV Taiwan 2014 exhibition. GET ...
Speaking at the 48th annual meeting of worldsteel (World Steel Association) held in Moscow on October 6, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of the worldsteel Economics Committee said that with a seven percent negative GDP growth expected ...
Tags: steel demand, real estate sector
In the January-September period of this year, Turkey's steel exports decreased by 4.5 percent year on year to 13.3 million mt, while the value of these exports totaled $10.11 billion, down 3.3 percent, both on year-on-year basis, according ...
Tags: Steel Exports, steel products
Sri Lanka has lifted the temporary ban on Fonterra's Anchor milk powder sales after local investigation found the products to be safe for consumption and not an agent for triggering illness in children. A ban was imposed by the government ...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Milk Powder, Food
New York futures moved higher this week, with December advancing 209 points to close at 63.94 cents/lb, while March gained 174 points to close at 62.27 cents/lb. “After posting a low of 60.83 cents two weeks ago, nearby supply ...
Tags: Cotton, cash market
The Asian price spread between high density polyethylene and ethylene feedstock turned negative Thursday, September 25, falling to minus $5/mt from parity a day before, due to the bearish PE market amid continued firm ethylene, Platts data ...
Tags: HDPE-Ethylene, PE
Of first- and second-tier Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, some have upward adjusted quotes from US$0.33-0.34/W to US$0.35-0.36/W for high-efficiency models with an average energy conversion rate of 17.6% while others ...
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Recently Shandong Chengkuang Environment Protection Group developed the first waste tyre intelligent production line with Korean Dongfeng Group, and 35% of the wasted will become industrial carbon black, 40% fuel oil, 15% steel wire and 10% ...
Nobia (NOBI.ST) has received an offer to divest its French kitchen chain Hygena to Fournier SA, which manufactures and sells kitchens under the brands Mobalpa, Perene and SoCoo'c. Nobia intends to respond to the offer after consultation ...
Tags: Nobia, Fournier SA, Food
Subsidies to the cotton industry have declined in 2013/14 compared to a year earlier, according to a new report released by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC). The report titled ‘Production and Trade Policies ...
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International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that the outlook for the European steel industry will remain stable until 2015, despite anticipated capacity utilization and profitability improvements. According to Moody's report, ...
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US producers of grain-oriented electrical steel by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). AK Steel Corporation and Allegheny Ludlum, LLC, and the United Steelworkers appealed the decision to the Court of International Trade, while ...
Tags: Domestic GOES Producers, ITC, Metallurgy