On 23 April, the EU Commission‘s competition authorities approved the takeover of Spano by Unilin, which is owned by the US-American company Mohawk. The approval under cartel law had already been granted following the provisional ...
Tags: EU Commission, Construction
South Korea-based solar material provider OCI has terminated two supply contracts with China-based Wuxi Suntech Power and one supply contract with Suntech International. OCI noted that the contract termination was based on Wuxi Suntech's ...
Tags: OCI, Polysilicon Supply, Lighting
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in March this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased 1.1 percent to $7.38 billion ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in April this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.7 percent, stable compared to the previous ...
According to the provisional data released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, in March this year Japan's iron and steel product exports came to 4 million metric tons, rising 12.25 percent month on month and up 4.8 percent as compared to ...
Tags: Iron Ore Import, Mineral
The Standing Committee of the International Cotton Advisory Committee gave approval to the Provisional Agenda of the 72nd Plenary Meeting during its 523rd Meeting on April 18, 2013. The 72nd Plenary Meeting will be held in Cartagena de ...
Tags: ICAC, Plenary Meeting, Textile
According to a forecast published by the ifo Institute a total of 277,000 apartments will be completed in Germany in 2016, including 245,850 apartments in new residential buildings, of which in turn 140,150 residential units will be ...
Tags: Construction, buildings
Australian miner Sundance Resources has announced that it has terminated the takeover agreement with Hanlong Mining, a subsidiary of Sichuang Province-based Chinese industrial conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong (Group) Co., under which Hanlong ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Networking and telecom equipment vendor Huawei has lost a patent lawsuit it filed in France against ZTE over a USB connector patent, ZTE said on Friday. The Paris court decided on Thursday to reject all of Huawei’s claims over a ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Exporters' Association (TIM), in March this year Turkey's steel exports totaled $1.5 billion in value, increasing by 10.3 percent year on year and up 17.8 percent ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral, export value
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in February this year Turkey's iron and steel imports totaled $1.4 billion, decreasing ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral, Metallurgy
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in February this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased to $6.96 billion compared ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Centrosolar Group AG will sell its solar glass division off, following a year of devastating financial losses. The Germany-based company has also postponed the publication of its annual report and announced the continuation of its ...
Tags: solar glass division, solar glass, glass
Russia-based steelmaking and mining giant Evraz has announced that it has successfully completed the preliminary qualifications required to become a supplier of railway wheels for the German national railway company Deutsche Bahn. As a ...
Tags: Wheels, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
According to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, in March this year the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.7 percent, rising 3.8 percentage points ...
Tags: metal manufacturing, metal products, manufacturing industry