Imports of tropical lumber to the EU fell by 13% last year to 996,000 m3 and thereby dropped below the 1m m3 mark for the first time. Information from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) shows that even in 2009, when the ...
Tags: Lumber, Construction
Solar demand in major markets in Europe continues to grow steadily as governments lower incentives. In the first quarter of 2013, total new solar installations in Germany, Italy, and the UK reached 2GW, accounting for 30% of global new ...
Tags: Solar
According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year industrial producer prices decreased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and in the European Union (EU-27) month on month. Compared to March last ...
Tags: Mineral, Industrial Producer
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that recent data on industrial production and unemployment signal that the EU economy continued to weaken in the first months of 2013, while the performance gap between Germany on the one ...
Cook Medical has obtained CE mark for PVA Foam Embolization Particles, designed for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also known as prostate enlargement. BPH can lead to lower urinary tract symptoms and is ...
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Salesforce.com, the cloud-based customer relationship management service provider, is to open a new European data centre in the UK to support its fast expansion across the continent. The company claims that sales across Europe are ...
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According to data released by the Turkish Steel Exporters’ (CIB), Turkey exported 5.4 million tons of steel products in the first quarter of 2012, rising by 7.7% year on year. Meanwhile, the country’s export revenues generated ...
Tags: Steel Export, Steel
Thousands of garment workers took part in a march to mark the International Labour Day in the capital Phnom Penh on May 1, 2013. The workers were demanding better working conditions and more wages in Cambodia’s garment factories. ...
Tags: Apparel, Cambodian Garment
China's JA Solar and Singapore-based Flextronics achieved the fastest growth among the top 10 producers of solar modules in 2012, as the two companies cashed in on the soaring demand for contract manufacturing in the solar value chain. JA ...
Tags: JA Solar, Solar Module, Lighting
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, while releasing the apparel export data for the month of March 2012-13 stated that, “Export in dollar terms for 12 months of the Financial Year (FY) 2012-13 has declined by 6 per cent over the same ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Textile
During the first eleven months of fiscal year 2012-13, India exported textiles worth US$ 28.4 billion, much below the target of US$ 39.6 billion set for the entire fiscal. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian ...
Tags: Textile Exports, Textile
Building on its success in the construction and industrial pumps market in the US, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has launched its innovative Norglide composite bearings solutions for hydraulic pump technology in heavy-duty vehicles ...
Japan’s exports of steel products totaled around 4 million tons in March, rising by 12.25% from a month ago and increasing by 4.8% year on year, according to data released by the Ministry of Finance. Meanwhile, the ...
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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
Google has purchased news streaming provider Wavii, the start-up's CEO has confirmed, as it immediately shut down its service before being incorporated into the world's number one web firm. The deal, worth an estimated $30m (£18m), ...
Tags: Google, Wavii News