Aggressibe new stimulus measures from Japan's central bank helped pull stocks higher and offset a downbeat report from the US labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 55.76 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 14606.11, ...
The Heavy Duty Linear Servopack (HD-LSP) autoload cartoner can handle bars, flow wrap packages and sachets. The machine can handle more than 350 products per minute, incorporating the patent-pending Sure-Load carton closing system, a rail ...
Tags: Cartoner, Packaging, Printing, Processing Machinery
Bangladesh's extensive diplomatic efforts and constant lobbying has saved one billion dollar RMG export to Canada, and paved the smooth way for future export. The Parliament of Canada has recently decided to amend the relevant criteria in ...
According to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Chinese large-and-medium size industrial enterprises released the aggregate gross profits of RMB709.2 billion in the first two months of this year, soaring by ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
In March, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.9 percent, up by 0.8 percentage point month-on-month, and stayed above the threshold for six consecutive months. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of ...
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the country's trade balance indicated a $3.36 billion surplus in March this year, remaining in black for the 14th consecutive ...
Tags: Steel Export, economy, Mineral
Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) in Europe by 30 € per ton or by the equivalent amount in local currency. DMF is a versatile organic solvent that is ...
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In March 2013, the A Index rose to 98.85 cents per pound on the 18th before receding to 93.15 cents per pound on March 26. The recent surge in cotton prices may be due to concerns about a tightening supply-demand balance outside of China as ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Cotton, Cotton Market
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,17 commodities increased in prices, 34 fell and 49 remained unchanged on 27/03/2013.The largest rises were Propylene oxide (1.05%),Caustic soda (0.78%),LPG (0.71%),while ...
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From that date shoppers will have to pay at least 5p for each single use carrier bag they use. According to the Department of Environment, the main aim of the charge is to help protect the environment by "reducing the unnecessary use of ...
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
Jack Mans, Plant Operatiions Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 10:48:05 AM Aerofil Technology Inc. (ATI) began its operations in Sullivan, MO, in the fall of 1988 with two small aerosol lines and less than 50,000 sq ft of space. Since ...
On April 1, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of last year grew by 7.4 percent to TRY 364.2 billion ($201 billion) in current prices and by 1.4 percent in ...
Tags: economy, Turkey, Statistical Institute
From January to February, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 709.2 billion yuan, an increase of 17.2 percent over the same period last year. From January to February, the profits of state-owned and ...
Furniture factories got off to a quick start this year as January orders were up 7% and shipments up 10% from the same month in 2012, Smith Leonard reported. The accounting and consulting firm said its monthly survey of residential ...
Tags: furniture factory, furniture