West Midlands Fire Service said more than 15 fire engines were at the Smurfit Kappa plant, a mill that packaging papers, in Nechells. About 100 firefighters remain at the scene of the blaze in Mount Street, which broke out shortly after ...
The premium gin is distilled on a Northamptonshire farm and Blue Marlin created a brand that reflected the relationships behind the product. Warner Edwards is founded by Tom Warner, hailing from England, and Sion Edwards, a Welshman. ...
The RapCo system is the latest innovation from SICK's range of sensors and sensing systems for factory automation, safety, quality control and track and trace applications. RapCo promises to speed up product changes by adjusting ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, packaging machine
The dramatic sell-off in resources stocks accelerated yesterday and the Australian dollar fell as investors focused on plunging gold and commodity prices and concerns about slowing growth in China. Goldminers again led the local ...
Tags: Markets Tumble, Resources Stocks
The sharemarket fell for a second consecutive day, with goldminers leading declines in cyclical sectors as the gold price rout continued in the wake of Monday's disappointing economic data from China, which added to recent concern about the ...
Tags: Goldminers, sharemarket
PMMI, the owner and producer of the PACK EXPO trade shows, today announced a brand-new regional event: PACK EXPO East, coming to Philadelphia Feb. 2-4, 2015. PMMI will stage the event at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. "There's a real ...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in the latest World Economic Outlook the global economy's growth would fall down to 3.3%, reducing by 0.2% than the prediction of January; global economy in 2014 would grow by 4%, remaining the ...
Tags: IMF, Global Economy's Growth
In another time the $5.07 billion price tag for NSW ports sold last Friday might have been the sort of deal to get a roll on for the market's deal junkies. After all, it's not often the market estimates for the price -- $2.5bn to $3bn -- ...
Tags: NSW, market estimates
The Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) said that its long steel division shipped around 340,000 tons of rebar in the first quarter of this year, up by 3% year on year. Among them, 339,400 tons were shipped to the domestic market, ...
Tags: NLMK, Long Steel, Steel
Visitors can build their own programme from over 30 sessions across all three days of the event, while still allowing time to explore the technologies and services being demonstrated on the show floor. The show runs from 14-15 May at teh ...
Tags: North Print, Packaging
World Steel said that the global steel demand would rise by 2.9% to 1.454 billion tons in 2013. Furthermore, it would grow by another 3.2% to 1.5 billion tons in 2014. Also, World Steel predicted that China’ steel demand would ...
Tags: Steel, Steel Demand
It’s reported that the Brazilian steelmakers including Gerdau, ArcelorMittal Brasil and Votorantim Siderurgia have all announced to raise rebar prices by 6% for April. It’s known that the ex-factory prices of rebar increased ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Rebar Prices
For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-February), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $4.8m, down 23% on $6.2m last quarter and 39% on $7.9m a year ago. Fiscal Q2/2012 Q3/2012 Q4/2012 ...
The on-going economic crisis poses a serious challenge to the dialogue between workers' and employers' representatives and governments according to a report published today by the European Commission. The report shows that recent government ...
The bottoming process in gold and gold mining shares continues to be an extended and frustrating affair. Nevertheless, the fundamental rationale for positioning physical bullion and gold mining shares seems more compelling than ever. ... ...
Tags: Gold Bullion, accelerated decline