New commercial vehicle demand across the European Union (EU) in April this year increased for the first time since December 2011, with a year-on-year rise of 3.6 percent, mainly sustained by demand for new vans, according to the European ...
As the world’s leading producer of man-made cellulose fibers, Lenzing AG relies on cooperating with strong partners. This is also the case in its latest partnership concluded with Löffler and the Red Cross. Tests proceeded ...
According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, retail prices for LED bulbs worldwide continue to have a downward trend this year for April. Worldwide retail price for 40W equiv. LED bulbs dropped by 5.7%, reaching 16.1 USD. ...
Regional unemployment rates varied widely across the 270 NUTS 2 regions of the EU27 in 2012, with the lowest rates recorded in the regions of Salzburg and Tirol (both 2.5%) in Austria and Tübingen, Oberbayern and Trier (all 2.7%) in ...
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Li Keqiang, Premier of China said that China opposes firmly EU's probes into Chinese solar and telecom products and China will pay high attention to this investigation. On Friday, EU carried out a symbolic funeral march in front of EU ...
Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its Google is facing another antitrust probe by US regulators into whether the firm is using its position as the world's number one web organisation to ...
Tags: Computer Products
A European project called the Bio-Board project has been instituted to develop sustainable protein-based paper and paperboard coating systems to increase the recyclability of food and beverage packaging materials. The BIO-BOARD ...
The policy would have forced restaurants to only serve olive oil in tamper-proof packaging, labelled to European Union standards, as of next year. The EC initially said that it wanted to protect consumers from "dodgy olive oil" and improve ...
Europe may levy anti-dumping tariffs on China-made solar products. This will increase the prices of China-made solar products in Europe. To retaliate, China will likely impose tariffs on Europe-based polysilicon through its on-going ...
Tags: Solar Trade Row, EU Members
A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
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Mika Seitorvita, CEO of Finnish steelmaker Outokumpu, has stated that the bids received so far for its Italian asset Acciai Speciali Terni (AST) do not meet the expectations of the Finnish company. "The bids Outokumpu has received so far ...
Tags: Italy, steelmaking, Outokumpu, European Union, Brescia
Speaking at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Istanbul, Mehmet Zeren, general secretary of Turkey's Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association (CEBID), informed participants about upcoming steel pipeline projects in Turkey. These ...
Tags: pipe, tubular, Turkey, Europe, opinion, conferences, steelmaking
The European Commission is likely to require more concessions from Google in an ongoing antitrust probe, the European Union's Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. The Commission is now analyzing proposals that Google submitted ...
Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Thursday set out plans for the E.U. to produce more micro- and nano-chips than the U.S. in the next seven years. "I want to double our chip production to around 20 percent of global production. I ...
Tags: EU, US, Race, Computer Products
Juan Carlos Moragues, the Minister of Finance and Public Administration of Valencia community (province) of Spain, has advised the textile sector of Valencia to utilize the European Regional Development Fund to generate job opportunities in ...