De Beers is talking about change, urging the trade to be proactive in dealing with a persistently uncertain and volatile market environment. While the company has directed its message to the diamond industry at large, and specifically to ...
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The decline in cotton price and slowing demand for apparel and other textile products in key North American and European markets have put tremendous pressure on synthetic pricing in the past several months. The global synthetic fiber price ...
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Brazil and the U.S. have ended a longstanding trade battle. The two countries have been fighting since 2002 over subsidies that the U.S. government provides to U.S. cotton growers. Brazil brought a case against the U.S. charging that the ...
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The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 (IMTS 2014) of Chicago, held Sept. 8-13, brought Taiwan's exhibitors some US$50 million of orders on-site, suggesting bright market outlook for the island's machine-tool makers at least ...
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A tiny ray of blue that revolutionized the lighting industry continues to tantalize investors looking to capitalize on the rise of new technology. On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize was awarded to three scientists for their invention of a blue ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending October 4, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,825,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.9 percent. Production was 1,850,000 net tons in the ...
The Dynapro HT will be OE on the 2015 Lincoln Navigator. Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. will supply its premium highway all-season SUV tire, Dynapro HT (pattern code: RH12) in size 275/55R20T AS, for the 2015 Lincoln Navigator luxury sport utility ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has reported net earnings of $425m in the fiscal 2015 first quarter ended 31 August, down 26% from $571m in the year-ago period. Revenues in the first three months totaled $33.3bn, a 2% change from ...
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Bereavement clothing, the attires worn by mourners during the funeral rituals of a deceased, will be the subject of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming fall season exhibition. Slated to take place from October ...
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Kent State University’s museum in Kent, Ohio, will house the AJDC’s “Variations on a Theme” exhibition from Oct. 24 to May 3, 2015. Click through the slideshow to see five pieces that will be displayed in the ...
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When the U.S. is switching to midterm election time, the media's attention is usually focused on domestic issues. It is not that international affairs are not important, but comparatively the public that is overwhelmed by local issues often ...
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On Wednesday, after wee-hours bargaining that capped more than a decade of negotiations, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation announced the signing of a 30-year gs-supply contract, estimated by the parties to be worth $400 ...
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A few days ago, I was in Washington, DC for a conference. On the sidelines of the conference, I met some American friends. We had an interesting discussion about China-US relations. It seems to me that a debate is going on in the United ...
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Germany based, The Hohenstein Institute now offers allergen-resistance testing of mattress and bed covers using real dust mite excrement as an accredited service. In the test, all components of the encasing or what is called the textile ...
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