In the second quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by one percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in ...
The European Commission has announced that it has initiated an expiry review of the antidumping (AD) duty on certain iron ore steel tube and pipe fittings imports from China and consigned from Taiwan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Pipe Fittings
Global dairy product prices fell again at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction, due to a seasonal lift in New Zealand supply and the recent Russian sanctions on European Union dairy exports. Prices are now 42.2% as against the ...
Tags: Dairy Product, dairy exports
Numerous developments in the area of vehicle safety are significantly influenced as a result of current NCAP or NHTSA regulations and then realized and implemented by manufacturers and their suppliers. The situation in China is similar, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto Technology, Car, Automobile
IATA reports that air freight volumes were up by a strong 5.8% in July compared to a year ago. This is an acceleration on June, when freight tonne kilometres rose 2.4%, and reflects improving demand conditions in some regions. There was ...
Tags: Air Freight, Service
Last month the EU proposed a tough set of waste recycling targets that have been met with much resistance by the packaging industry. The new proposals revolve around the aim for 80% of packaging waste materials to be recycled by 2030. ...
According to the report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in July this year industrial producer prices declined by 0.1 percent in the euro area and 0.2 percent in the European Union member states ...
Tags: energy sector, Mineral
In the first eight months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 11.8 million mt, down 5.6 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 4.3 percent year on year to $9 billion, according to the data ...
Tags: Steel Export, Metallurgy
FreeFOAM project partner The Association of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry of the Slovak Republic (ZCHFP) generously hosted the third meeting of the FreeFOAM consortium at their facilities in Bratislava in June. The FreeFOAM project ...
Russia amends blacklist to allow imports of lactose-free milk, some fish and vegetables The Russian government has removed some agricultural products, including lactose-free milk and dairy products, young salmon and trout, as well as some ...
Tags: Russian, Agricultural Products, Agriculture
European Union is preparing to introduce a legislation that will ensure that vehicle fuel use testing on the roads instead of laboratories, to prevent car makers making exaggerated claims on fuel-savings and emission credentials. Lab ...
Tags: European Union, Legislation, Auto Parts
Packaging solution providers MeadWestvaco (MWV) have launched a software-based solution Avive Multimed system which offers multiple benefits like medication regimens syncronisation, adherence improvement and medication therapy management. ...
Tags: MWV, Avive Multimed System, Packaging
In January-July period of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 690.74 million mt, rising by 1.29 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA is enhancing its support of the European market by extending its partnership with UK-based distributor APC Novacom. APC Novacom now stocks all Cree RF devices that do not require a European Union (EU) license, ...
Tags: Cree, APC, Electrical
The manifesto focuses on enabling the plastics recycling sector to meet the government’s low carbon manufacturing ambitions, which are central to meeting aspirations of a circular economy and resource efficiency. A series of ...
Tags: BPF Recycling, Packaging