Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is expanding its Goodyear Commercial Tire & Service Network in the Greensboro, N.C., market. "North Carolina is home to many commercial trucking fleets, and Greensboro is a very important market for Goodyear," ...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman today announced a $600,000 grant to the City of South Bend and a $600,000 grant to the City of Plymouth to help redevelop contaminated brownfield sites. Hedman was ...
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German factory orders rebounded in April, rising by a stronger-than-expected 3.1 percent compared with the previous month with help from a surgeA transient variation in the current and/or potential at a point in the circuit. in demand from ...
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American automotive parts supplier Johnson Controls has expanded its presence in China with the opening of a new automotive battery manufacturing plant in Chongqing City with an investment of $154m. The new plant is claimed to have a ...
The cost of civil construction in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, increased 1.71 percent month-over-month in May, according to the state’s civil construction union SindusCon-SP. The basic unit cost of civil construction or CUB in ...
Tags: Civil Construction
In April this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.5 percent from March and rose by 4.1 percent from April 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Production
Power management company Eaton will again demonstrate its leadership and commitment to sustainable energy generation at this year’s Intersolar Europe from the 4th to 6th June in Munich. At stand A3.132 visitors can learn about ...
South Africa-based paper and packaging firm Mondi has signed an agreement with Graphic Packaging subsidiary Graphic Packaging International to acquire its bags and kraft paper business, for around $105m. As part of the deal, Mondi will ...
Tags: Bags, Graphic Packaging
U.S. productivity fell even more than previously thought in the January-March period while labor costs rose at a faster pace. The Labor Department says productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, declined at an annual rate of 3.2 ...
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Chinese manufacturing grew for the third consecutive month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing, a state-sanctioned industry group said Sunday. The China Federation of Logistics and ...
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According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $5.35 billion surplus in May this year. Meanwhile, in the first five months ...
Tags: Steel Exports, cars exports
Brazil’s civil construction union SindusCon-SP sees a lower increase in the sector’s gross domestic product (GDP), it said, adding the growth in 2014 would be between 1 and 2 percent, year on year. The forecast is below the 2.8 ...
In the first four months of this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 0.4 percent year on year to 11.49 million metric tons, according to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the ...
Tags: Finished Steel, flat products
The U.S. economy took a beating from an especially harsh winter during the January-March quarter, skidding into reverse for the first time in three years. But spring has arrived and along with it, signs that the chill was just a temporary ...