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Nitra to Offer Distance Learning Textile Programs

Jul 10, 2014

Every year in the month August NITRA offers a bouquet of intensive manpower training programs on distance learning mode to help the aspiring and existing textile & garment industry professionals. The programs enable them to update ...

Tags: Textile, garment

Antimicrobial Coatings Market will Reach $4, 520.3 M by 2020

Jul 10, 2014

Grandview Research has recently released a report on the global antimicrobial coatings market. Antimicrobial coatings are used to protect surfaces from micro-organisms including parasites, bacteria, germs and fungi. Initially introduced to ...

Tags: Construction, Decoration, Antimicrobial Coating

150,000 Units Each Year on Reaching Full Production Capacity

Jul 10, 2014

Nissan has opened its second manufacturing facility in Thailand, which will produce the NP300 Navara, a new generation pickup truck. The 580,000m2 plant was built with an investment of THB3.7bn ($114.3m), and will support the region with ...

Tags: Auto Parts, Nissan, Truck

Plessey Adds Codico for Distribution in Central & East Europe

Jul 10, 2014

UK-based Plessey has entered into a distribution agreement with CODICO GmbH, a demand creation distributor for electronic components, headquartered in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria and with offices across Europe. With CODICO, Plessey is expanding ...

Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, LED products

70 Percent Recycling for Steel Packaging in EU

Jul 10, 2014

The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has welcomed the new waste and recycling targets adopted by the European Commission last week. The Commission announced a 70 percent recycling objective for steel, rising ...

Tags: Steel Packaging, Steel

Steel Mill Shipments in US Rise in May

Jul 10, 2014

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that for the month of May 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,398,976 net tons, a 2.0 percent increase from the 8,235,096 net tons shipped in the previous month, April 2014, and a ...

Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel

U. S. Fleets Look to Grow, GE Capital Says

Jul 9, 2014

GE found 42 percent of respondents expect increasing margins at their firms in the coming year. COLUMBUS, OH— GE Capital surveyed over 400 U.S. fleet execs and found that most fleets are looking to add more employees and grow their ...

Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts

Brazil's Motor Vehicle Output Down 16.8 Percent

Jul 9, 2014

Brazil's motor vehicle output in June this year decreased by 23.3 percent from the previous month and fell by 33.3 percent year on year to 215,934 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...

Tags: auto parts, auto, Motor Vehicle, Vehicle

Dongkuk Steel Looks for High-End Steel Maker in Brazil

Jul 9, 2014

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., one of South Korea's leading steelmakers, plans to become a global supplier of high-end steel products as part of efforts to brush off tough competition with Chinese and Japanese rivals, South Korea's media said on ...

Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel

Ilyich Modernizes Equipment in Sheet-Rolling Mill

Jul 9, 2014

Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it is investing more than UAH 52 million ($4.33 million) in ...

Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel

Nike's Brazil Dealers Slash Jersey Prices

Jul 8, 2014

Nike dealers in Brazil have marked down its official team jersey for Team Brazil by 35 percent due to a glut of counterfeit jerseys in the country, Bloomberg News reported. The magazine reported that a survey of stores operated by one of ...

Tags: team jersey, Sporting Goods, Sporting Apparel

Soybean Acreage, Corn Stocks Numbers Sharply Bearish -- USDA

Jul 8, 2014

U.S. farmers have planted a whale of a soybean crop this year, and if that crop reaches fruition, it'll keep the bears fed for some time, analysts and traders say after soaking up Monday's USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks and June Acreage ...

Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soybean, Corn

Lifan Shijun Trucks to Launch with Customization

Jul 8, 2014

Lifan Shijun sounds like a new player for commercial vehicle industry and it is a company which can produce all series trucks in Southwest China. So how will it enter the truck markets? One company has to own products with the great ...

Tags: Transportation, auto, auto parts, truck

Thyssenkrupp Upgrades Second Converter at Duisburg-Bruckhausen

Jul 8, 2014

Germany-based steel giant ThyssenKrupp has announced that it is conducting modernization works at the converter No. 2 and the waste-heat boiler system in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen steelmaking plant. ThyssenKrupp stated that the ...

Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel

Voestalpine to Supply Linepipe Plates for Petrobras Project

Jul 8, 2014

Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it will supply 120,000 mt of high-strength linepipe plates for Brazilian multinational Petrobras' third pipeline in the world's largest oilfield, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between ...

Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy