FTR has revised its Trucking Conditions Index to show increasingly favourable conditions for the trucking industry. The June index was up more than 30% compared to May. Active truck utilization is moving up as the effects of the new US ...
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Egypt s Suez Cement has reported a 7% increase in sales for the first half of 2012 despite a difficult trading environment which saw frequent energy shortages and major price increases. The company said that the uncertainty of energy ...
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The Russian steelmaker NLMK announced its financial result for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. NLMK posted a net profit of US$34 million for the second quarter, falling by 87.8% year on year. Its sales revenues totaled ...
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It’s reported that Baosteel Stainless, one of the major stainless steel producers in China announced to raise its export prices for austenitic stainless steel coils by US$50/ton in order to reflect higher stainless steel prices in the ...
On August 16, Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group) announced that in the current month up to and including August 14 its subsidiary Chengdu Plates Co. received orders for over ...
Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone, is the greatest masterpiece of Chinese classical novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties with the most profound influence on later generations. The work is comprised of 120 chapters, the ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: optical modules, Electrical, Electronics
It’s reported that Indian steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) released its financial result for the first quarter of the financial year 2013/14 ended on June 30th. In the first quarter of the fiscal year 2013/14, ...
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The downward trend in imports of tropical wood to the EU remained unabated in the first four months of 2013. According to information from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), this applies to practically all the main ...
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European coated fine paper producer Sappi has announced a €61m rebuild at its Alfeld Mill Paper Machine 2 (PM2) in Germany, in a bid to address varying demand for specialty packaging papers. The PM2 rebuild is said to transform the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company's management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. As companies get more used to running applications in the cloud, they are putting ...
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Recycled advertising banners began this 3D lighting project from SD Works. 'Living Pixels' uses specially cut materials to create intricate volumes of light and texture. The designers Kay Chan Wan Ki, Match Chen Siu Wa, and Catherine Suen ...
Tags: Irregular Shaped Lamp, Lights, Lighting, Lamp
Against the backdrop of the controversial development of the Russian construction industry affect the success of the glass industry: in 2000, was released 86 million m2 of glass in 2010 - already 190 million m2, and production growth ...
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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that China's net oil imports will exceed those of the United States by October 2013 on a monthly basis and by 2014 on an annual basis, making China the largest importer of oil in the ...
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It’s reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced that its sales volumes of carbon steel products totaled 767,788 tons in July, increasing by 4.3% month on month. Among them, 67% were sold ...
Tags: Carbon Steel