White Pine Flooring was once one of the most commonly used flooring in America. It has fallen out of favor with some people who feel that because it is a softwood it doesn’t meet their needs, and it isn’t as durable or wear ...
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Chinese economic policy and an improving US economy appear to have achieved what the Reserve Bank couldn't this week: taking the wind out of Australia's plucky currency, which fell to 11-month lows in early trading yesterday and is expected ...
Apple supplier Pegatron has said it will increase its workforce in China by up to 40 per cent in the second half of 2013, suggesting that it could be working on assembling a new cheaper model of the iPhone. Pegatron, which is based in ...
China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its list prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods for June. Industry sources predicted that CSC might cut its list prices for EF Al-killed wire ...
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The announcements this week by North American energy companies Marathon Oil and Talisman Energy that they are pulling out of shale gas exploration in Poland seems to have finally killed the government's initial hope that the former Soviet ...
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Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard. Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news ...
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China-based LED firms have slowed down the pace of price cuts as LED chipmakers face shrinking profit margins. Taiwan-based firms noted that China-based LED industry leader Sanan Optoelectronics has been limiting its price decline, easing ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-March), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $348.9m, up 1% on last quarter and up 23% on $284.8m a year ago (and at the high end of the ...
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For first-quarter 2013, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has ...
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Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
The government has fallen about $1 billion short of the $3bn revenue windfall it had hoped to reap from the sale of valuable wireless spectrum to the nation's leading telecoms companies. After two weeks of secret bidding, Telstra, Optus ...
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Real steel consumption in the European Union is forecast to decline by over three percent in 2013, according to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association ...
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Since 2010, Budweiser has raised more than $5 million for the Folds of Honor Foundation and provided more than 1,000 educational scholarships to the families of soldiers killed or disabled in service. In 2013, for every case of Budweiser ...
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Wood has been used for making buildings and furniture since time immemorial. With the evolution of time a great deal of development has taken place in the wood working practices among the carpenters. From hand operated chisels and saws to ...
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Sri Lanka's Piramal Glass said profits rose 5.6 percent to 724.3 million rupees in the year to March 2012 from a year earlier, exports were doing well, but warned against higher energy costs this year. The firm reported earnings of 76 ...
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