In March this year, Japan's iron and steel product exports amounted to 3.87 million metric tons, decreasing by five percent year on year and increasing by 20.3 percent compared to the previous month, while Japan's iron and steel product ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Product
A three-month old arbitrage window to export Asian butadiene to the US that had been slowly closing earlier this month has widened again this week and as a result producers and traders have been heard trying to arrange for butadiene cargoes ...
Tags: Butadiene, Asian butadiene
"We had a good start to the year in our chemicals business and in the Agricultural Solutions segment. We sold more. This more than compensated for the negative effects on sales from the comparatively weak U.S. dollar and currencies in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, Oil, Gas
Jarden Corporation reported sales declined 1.6 percent to $684.1 million at its Outdoor Solutions segment in the quarter ended March 31 and that earnings fell 22.3 percent to $55.3 million compared with $71.2 million in the same quarter of ...
Tags: Jarden, Sporting Goods, Sporting Appreal
Crocs, Inc. reported earnings tumbled 78.0 percent in the first quarter, to $6.4 million, or 6 cents a share, from $29.0 million, or 33 cents, a year ago. Revenues inched up 0.2 percent to $312.4 million as strong gains in the Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Greatbatch, Inc. (NYSE:GB), today announced results for its first quarter ended April 4, 2014 highlighted by 17% organic constant currency revenue growth; 16% improvement in adjusted operating income; and 23% improvement in adjusted diluted ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
One of the greatest challenges electronics manufacturers continue to face in complying with the ever-expanding set of regulated chemical substances today is being aware of – in advance – whether any of the regulated substances ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
For first-quarter 2014, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $19.3m, up 3.8% on $18.6m last quarter although still down 13.8% on $22.4m a year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 Q3/2013 Q4/2013 Q1/2014 Revenue $22.4m $23.8m $20.5m ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Wolverine Worldwide reported revenue in the first quarter, as expected, declined modestly to $627.6 million, a decrease of 2.8 percent versus the prior year. Gains were tempered by continued soft traffic at retail in the U.S., the strategic ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Columbia Sportswear Company raised its 2014 outlook after announcing record first quarter net sales, a sharp increase in first quarter profits, surging wholesale demand, a strong launch of its Chinese joint venture and the acquisition of ...
Tags: Sportswear, Apparel
Big 5 Sporting Goods reported that for the fiscal 2014 first quarter, net sales were $231.3 million, compared to net sales of $246.3 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Same store sales declined 7.9 percent for the first quarter ...
Tags: Recreation, Sporting Goods
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reported a net loss of $58 million on net sales of $4.5 billion for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of $26 million on sales of $4.9 billion for the same period last year. Goodyear ...
Tags: Goodyear, Tire, Tyre, auto parts
As of April 28, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.31 million mt, down 100,000 mt or 0.09 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on April 21, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, spot market
EBay Inc. reported that the value of goods sold on its mobile commerce platform increased 70 percent in first quarter ended March 31, 2014 and now represent 19 percent of its e-commerce volume. Total revenue at the company increased 14 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, E-Commerce
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings aims to increase its annual production capacity for solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers to 11.5GWp, according to China-based media reports. GCL-Poly produced about 9.0GWp of solar wafers in 2013, ...