Brazilian Iron and Steel Institute (IABr) recently indicated that 13 million tons of finished steel on the first half year of 2013 were consumed in Brazil, increasing by only 0.6% compared to the same period last year. Following two ...
Tags: Construction, Steel
The slowdown in the PC market decisively caught up with Intel today following second quarter results in which revenues fell by 5.1 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2012. The company posted revenues of $12.8bn in the second quarter ...
Tags: PC
July contract prices for US polyethylene terephthalate are likely to fall, a producer sources said Wednesday, predicting that lower feedstock prices could lead to a 1 cent/lb drop from June levels. US PET June contracts were assessed at ...
Tags: pet, Pet Contract, polyethylene terephthalate, Chemicals
While employment and productivity in the construction industry are on the upswing nationwide, the West Coast is seeing slower growth in parts. Construction employment in Oregon and Washington is growing steadily, but slowly. California's ...
More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Classes 5-8 vehicle orders slipped in June, but ACT Research says there's reason for optimism to be found in the latest numbers. Class 8 net orders fell below 20,000 units for the first time since last September, coming in at 18,830 ...
Tags: truck, Transportation, Auto
Najran Cement Company has said that its profits for the second quarter of 2013 increased by 140% year-on-year to $17.3m, while profits for the half year were up by 41% to $40.3m (SR: 151.2m). The company said the reason for the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Cement
Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Saudi cement firms, Yanbu Cement Co and Saudi Cement Co, have both announced positive results for the second quarter of 2013. Yanbu posted a 26.9% increase in net profit for the period to $73.1m (SAR 274m), up from last year's ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
A small increase in the number of carrier bags being used by supermarket shoppers across the UK reflects changing shopping trends and shouldn’t detract from areas where excellent progress has been made, the British Retail Consortium ...
Tags: Carrier Bag, Shopping Trends
Reportedly, the Chinese steelmaker Shougang announced that estimated net loss of RMB250~RMB300 million for the first half of this year, in comparison of net loss of RMB349.43 million in the same period of a year ago. It's known that the net ...
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Korean steel giant Posco has given up to build a 6 million tons per year integrated steel mill in the south India and the company already stopped any work of this project. Posco mentioned delays in gaining approvals to mine and persisting ...
According to data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's output of stainless steel products totaled 231,995 tons in May, up slightly by 0.7% from a month ago. Among them, 110,040 tons were chrome-based stainless steel products, ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Construction
Cin the first half of this year, decreasing by 1.5% year on year, according to data released by the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In the first half of this year, the country's output of crude steel was at 34.7 million ...
Tags: Rolled Steel, Construction
According to data released by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, Ukraine's steel pipe output totaled 847,700 tons in the first half of this year, slumping by 24.5% in comparison of the figures in the same period of a year ago. In the given ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Construction