Poor cement sales in Portugal and Angola have reduced Semapa s net profit by 52.3% year-on-year to Euro39.3m for the first six months of 2013 from Euro82.3m in the same period in 2012. Sales in Portugal fell by 15.2% to Euro82.2m for the ...
Tags: Construction, cement
Global responsible supply chain specialist Sedex is pleased to announce a partnership with Labour Standards NGO, Verité, on a briefing series exploring sustainability issues in global supply chains. The first in the series of ...
A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. ...
Tags: Avoid Surveillance, Internet Users
Regulating ourselves to death Worshipping the golden calf — wagyu style Water challenges will not be solved this way Now is certainly not the time for growers and agricultural organizations to take pot shots and snipe at each other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
August manufacturing activity picked up where July left off, according to the most recent edition of the Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure ...
UK-based medical insurance firm Beazley has unveiled a new emergency evacuation insurance coverage, known as Beazley Flight, for its employees. Beazley Flight is a new kind of insurance-based solution that provides clients specialist ...
Final numbers have been tallied for the four-day Eurobike trade show, and according to organizers, the show once again surpassed previous attendance records. Organizers counted 45,200 trade visitors from 111 countries, up from 43,700 ...
Tags: Eurobike, bike, Transportation
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
A number of elected officials made the most of the August recess, using some of their time away from Washington, D.C. to visit constituents at glass industry companies in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. U.S. Senator Rob Portman ...
Tags: glass industry, Construction, Decoration
Two-thirds of public sector officials feel that security should play a bigger role in the government's Digital by Default reform agenda, according to research by McAfee. The research, conducted in association with specialist political ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
State-owned Chinese oil giant Sinopec has taken its first step into Egypt's upstream sector with a $3.1 billion deal to buy a 33% stake in US-based Apache's assets there. The deal is the first under in a new global strategic partnership ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that Ashley Furniture and Ethan Allen are not eligible to receive millions of dollars in duties in the wooden bedroom furniture antidumping case. In an Aug. 19 decision, the U.S. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
After languishing in the political wilderness of disinterest for many years, the long-wished-for inland freight rail track from Melbourne to Brisbane has finally made it onto the political front page. The rail industry has welcomed ...
The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) has stated that the Turkish steel industry is going through a difficult time after the US initiated its antidumping (AD) duty investigations of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India, ...
Tags: OCTG Investigations
Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir elik Sanayi A. . (IDC) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013, stating that for the coming period China's policies regarding capacity utilization rates and ...
Tags: rebar producer