While Chinese ferrosilicon offers remained high from rising Chinese semi-coke prices, offers heard have moved lower in Japan on thin trade, sources said. The Chinese 75% Si ferrosilicon price assessment was unchanged week on week at ...
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The Natuzzi brand has been well-known over the years for their expertise in mastering Italian craftsmanship: the ability to shape products with hands, and the manual know-how to transform ideas into reality. Aldo Mati, Natuzzi’s ...
Vetropack Group significantly enhanced its revenue in the first half of 2016. Vetropack Italia, a member of the Group since early August 2015, making a major contribution of over 10%. Net sales from goods and services amounted to CHF ...
Hygiena International wraps up its series of weekly articles that discuss monitoring microbiological contamination on surfaces. This week's fourth and final piece provides insight into the topic of 'Measuring swab performance'. There are ...
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Frigoglass SAIC announces audited results for the quarter and six months ended 30 June 2016. Second Quarter 2016 Highlights Sustained recovery in West Europe (+27% y-o-y) driven by ICOOL’s penetration in Coca-Cola bottlersOngoing ...
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KaMin announced today that it will increase prices for hydrous kaolin clay products for the global paper and packaging industry 6-8% effective 1 October 2016. "This price increase is necessary to ensure our long term sustainability," ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, a global manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings, has acquired the business of Geeraets Autolak, a distributor of Axalta’s Cromax refinish coating products in the Netherlands for nearly 40 years. The ...
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Tembec reported that consolidated sales for the three-month period ended 25 June 2016, were $376m, as compared to $365m in the same quarter a year ago. The Company generated net earnings of $9 million or $0.09 per share in the June 2016 ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday revised down its forecast for global growth in 2016 and 2017, due to the uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union (Brexit). The IMF expects the global economy to grow ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to extend the food embargo imposed by the country on Western food products until the end of December 2017. The ban was first introduced by Russia in the summer of 2014 on a range of ...
Debenhams has announced its trading update for the 15 weeks to 11th June. LFL sales grew by 0.2%, with online sales up 7%. In the 15 week period, gross transaction value rose by 0.5%, taking the cumulative YOY performance to growth of 1.3%. ...
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The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results show that the steady increase in hiring intentions in Australia will continue into the third quarter of 2016. Of the 1,500 public and private employers surveyed, 13 per cent indicated ...
Volvo has released the new generation Polestar Performance Optimisation for XC90 T8 Twin Engine The Polestar optimisation increases the performance to 421 hp and 680 Nm and 0-100 km/h in 5.5 seconds, all this with unchanged, class-leading ...
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Polestar has launched the new generation of its performance package for the new Volvo S90 and V90. Known as Polestar Performance Optimisation, the package upgrades the entire drivetrain and further improves driving dynamics. The S90 and ...