Spanish sheet market prices continued to fall, the price of domestic products and imported products fell by €10/ton from the previous week. Currently, the hot rolled coil (HRC) price is €450-460/ton, cold rolled coil (CRC) price ...
Tags: steel, Construction
Sapphire is currently used in some exotic, luxury phones. However, the sapphire price reduction combined with the massive adoption of touch screens in smartphones have stimulated the interest of cell phone OEMS for this material. Crystal ...
Tags: Electronics, Electrical
Pricing is an important factor in the commercialization of LED lighting. To stimulate demand, LED light bulb firms have been introducing low-price products. Growth in demand for LED light bulbs has been quite significant, but has yet to ...
Tags: LED Light Bulb, LED, Lighting
Chung Hung Steel (CHS), the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) and also one of the major carbon steel flat re-rolling mills in Taiwan, has announced its sales revenue in May was NTD 2.84 billion, decreasing by 3.3% ...
Tags: Construction, steel
Manufacturing activity in May contracted for the first time since November 2012, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity—at 49 in May was down 1.7 ...
Tags: ISM, Manufacturing&Processing Machinery, Manufacturing Data
The furniture business is what you would call a quiet giant in the business world. You won’t see headlines about furniture on a daily basis, but everyone’s subconsciously talking about it. Everyone uses a piece of furniture on a ...
Tags: Furniture, Import from China
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April this year the producer prices of industrial products in Germany fell by 0.2 percent compared to March this year and were up 0.1 percent compared to April 2012. The ...
Tags: Germany, Basic Metal Prices
Flat glass prices saw a slight decrease—just 0.9 percent—from March to April, according to the latest Producer Price Index Report from the U.S. Labor Department. The index was listed at 115.8 for April, compared with 116.8 for ...
Tags: Flat Glass Prices, Flat Glass
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April of the current year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were 0.4 percent lower compared to April 2012, the first year-on-year price decrease ...
Tags: Metal Prices, Mineral
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in April this year the producer price index (PPI) for Turkish industry in general fell by 0.5 percent from March and was up 1.7 percent year on year, while an ...
Tags: Mineral, Metal Producers
According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year industrial producer prices decreased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and in the European Union (EU-27) month on month. Compared to March last ...
Tags: Mineral, Industrial Producer
The AWEX Regional Indicators finished 1.9% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle last week when the US exchange rate fell by 0.5%. The wool market displayed more of the volatility seen since the resumption of ...
Tags: Aussie Wool, Textile
According to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa, in March this year the country's producer price index (PPI) for the basic iron and steel industry rose 1.6 percent compared to February and was up 5.6 percent compared to ...
Tags: Steelmaker, Mineral
Porsche Cars Australia has slashed prices across its two-door sports car and Cayenne SUV ranges by up to 13 per cent as it strives towards doubling local sales by 2020. The price cuts – which range between $5500 and $36,300 across ...
Tags: Porsche, SUV Ranges
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in March this year the producer prices of industrial products in Germany fell by 0.2 percent compared to February this year and were up 0.4 percent compared to March 2012, ...
Tags: Rebar Prices, Mineral