After disappointing growth in textile and apparel trade in 2012, international volumes in apparel, textiles and other fibre products have recovered this year. Based on an analysis of merchandise in all fibre types, natural and manmade ...
Tags: Fibres, Apparel Trade
The Markit Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index fell from September’s 27-month high according to the October flash estimate, but remained above the 50.0 no-change level for a fourth successive month. At 51.5, down from 52.2 in ...
Tags: PMI
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
The outlook for the European steel market next year is for a cautious recovery from a low level, according to Jeroen Vermeij, director of market analysis and economic studies at European steel producers' association Eurofer. Speaking at ...
Tags: Apparent Steel, steel market
Ahlstrom releases results for July to September and January to September 2013. Continuing operations July-September 2013 compared with July-September 2012 -Net sales EUR 251.1 million (EUR 248.8 million). -Operating profit EUR 1.5 ...
Brazil heralded this week's auction of a huge oil field as a vindication of its state-dominant approach to its oil riches, but some industry experts say the country must modify its rules before new fields are sold for Brazil to achieve its ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Shipments of bikes to U.S. retailers in September took a bigger dip than anticipated, down 4.9 percent in dollars and 11.9 percent in units compared to the same month last year, according to the BPSA Topline for Cycling RetailTRAK from ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
According to the latest 'Stainless Steel Report October 2013' issued by Germany-based service center Damstahl, in the first seven months of the current year European stainless crude steel production declined five percent year on year to 4.4 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Stainless Steel
Just last month, we looked at the Gigabyte U2442F, a £1,000 "ultrabook" with a stonking Intel Core i7 microprocessor, an excellent, dedicated 2GB NVIDIA graphics card - and a truly terrible screen. We noted not only that it ...
British Gas, the biggest energy supplier in the United Kingdom, said it plans to raise the energy price by an average of 9.2 percent from next month, local media reported Friday. The price hikes, which announced only one week after its ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
PC giant Lenovo is considering a bid for troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry. The news follows the revelation that it has been granted permission to examine the company's books and comes after months of denials that it was interested in ...
Tags: Computer Products, Lenovo, Blackberry
After disappointing growth in textile and apparel trade in 2012, international volumes in apparel, textiles and other fibre products have recovered this year. Based on an analysis of merchandise in all fibre types, natural and manmade ...
Tags: Fibres, Textiles Trade
China's daily imports of crude rebounded in September from the previous month to a fresh record, bearing out forecasts for the country to overtake the United States as the world's largest oil importer, as refineries restarted following ...
China's primary offshore oil company on Tuesday invited foreign companies to bid on an unprecedented number of deep-water blocks off Chinese shores as the country attempts to firm up domestic oil output, which has grown slowly over the past ...
Tags: Domestic Oil Output, Crude-Oil
Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has developed near-green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using a new indium gallium nitride (InGaN) growth process that gives devices with a higher peak external quantum efficiency of 48.6% ...
Tags: LEDs, Near-green LEDs, InGaN MOCVD