The Greek textile industry has been severely affected by the rising energy costs in the country, which has led to increasing imports of textiles from countries like China, and the Government needs to take necessary action to resolve this ...
Tags: Textile Industry, Energy Costs
Animal, the UK’s leading action sports lifestyle brand has announced the launch of their new website. The brand site has been re-designed and is now fully responsive, operating across iPads and mobile phones as well as computers. ...
Tags: lifestyle brand, Sports Brand
The Norwegian Wood collection is Coswick Hardwood's newest line of wide-plank hardwood floors. Norwegian Wood flooring collection comes second in Coswick line of wide-plank European-style wood floors. The floors in the new collection are ...
Tags: hardwood floor, floor, flooring
In the first quarter of the current year, Russian coal exports increased by 17.3 percent year on year to 35.819 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In March alone, Russia exported 12.123 million mt ...
Tags: Coal Exports, coal
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, stating that it expects demand for steel to pick up slightly in 2014. Nevertheless, demand growth will continue to be limited by ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Ruukki
Louisville, Kentucky-based Steel Technologies LLC announced Tuesday its agreement to purchase Stripco LLC, Stripco Sales Company, LLC, and Stripco Express Inc. (collectively, “Stripco”). Stripco is a premier value-added steel ...
Tags: Steel Technologies, Steel
Speaking on behalf of World Steel Dynamics (WSD) at SteelHome's 10th Steel Development Strategy Conference held recently in Shanghai, Wu Wenzheng, president of SteelHome, said that WSD's global steel output forecast for 2014 is 1.61 billion ...
Tags: Scrap Prices, Steel
UK-based mining giant Anglo American Corporation has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, iron ore production from Kumba Iron Ore increased by 10 percent year on year to 11.3 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, mining giant
The Finish Line, Inc. and GCPI SR LLC (Gart Capital Partners/GCP) have agreed to Finish Line increasing its ownership in the Denver-based Running Specialty Group (RSG), which has been rolling up independently owned shops across the country. ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 78.2 points in March of the current year, increased by 0.3 ...
Tags: Construction Sector
Austria-based voestalpine broke ground Wednesday on the construction of a EUR 550 million (US$760 million) direct reduction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas. The plant, which represents the largest foreign investment in the history of ...
Tags: voestalpine, mechanical equipment
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) and the Western Canada Tire Dealers Association (WCTDA) will present a three-day commercial tire service (CTS) 400 level instructor training and certification class in Edmonton, Alberta, May 6-8, 2014. ...
Tags: tyre, tire, auto parts
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Spain. The review covers one company — Gerdau Aceros Especiales ...
Tags: Stainless Bar, dumping duty
According to data released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on April 24, as of the end of March (March 31), the composite steel price index (CSPI) for the Chinese domestic market was at 94.83 points, down 1.63 points or 1.69 ...
Tags: Composite Steel, Iron, Steel
Evraz ZSMK, a Siberian steel division of steel and mining group Evraz, has announced that in the first three months this year it shipped 1.62 million mt of rolled steel products by railway, up 7.3 percent compared to the same period of last ...
Tags: Rolled Steel, steel, mining