According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in August this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general increased by 1.17 percent from July and was up 9.82 percent year on year, ...
Tags: basic metal, domestic industry
In the January-August period of the year, China produced 2.518 billion mt of coal, down 1.44 percent year on year, while it sold 2.4 billion mt of coal in the same period, down 1.62 percent year on year, as announced by the China National ...
Tags: Coal, Coal output, Coal market
International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that the outlook for the European steel industry will remain stable until 2015, despite anticipated capacity utilization and profitability improvements. According to Moody's report, ...
Tags: steel industry, Moody's
The bill,developed in close consultation with the outdoor industry, U.S. textile sector and Congressional representatives, is projected to lower costs for outdoor industry business, prevent rising retail prices and spur innovation by US ...
The general trend in the German cotton market remained unchanged during the week. Purchasers enjoyed closing contracts at potentially lower quotations of the new crop, the latest Bremen Cotton Exchange report reveals. Thus, industry and ...
Tags: Trends, German Cotton Market, Textile
China's manufacturing sector expanded in August but at a significantly slower pace, as production rates and new orders softened. The Flash China Manufacturing PMI, published by HSBC in conjunction with Markit Economics, fell 1.4 points to ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, China Manufacturing
New launch will be supported by online activity, product sampling and in store display units. Collectable specialists Magic Box Int has launched Zomlings series two. The Zomlings are currently the focus of a new TV advertising campaign ...
Tags: Zomlings Series Two, Specialists, Toys
DOE has published a new report forecasting the energy savings of LED white-light sources compared with conventional white-light sources. The sixth iteration of the Energy Savings Forecast of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination ...
The Brazilian cotton trade has turned cautious in the just concluded fortnight, mainly from price volatility in Brazil, rise in global prices in early September and the dollar valuation against Brazilian currency real, which has also led to ...
The Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) commented on Monday’s US International Trade Commission (ITC) hearing, the final phase of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey and ...
Tags: SMA, US ITC Hearing, Metallurgy
As of September 15, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 109.65 million mt, up 590,000 mt or 0.54 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on September 8, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy
More than 80% of China's 63 polysilicon makers stopped production in 2011-2012 due to continual price drops arising from global oversupply. As polysilicon prices have rebounded since the beginning of 2014, a few of them have resumed ...
Tags: polysilicon, polysilicon output
As expected, the U.S. corn and soybean crop condition ratings have been left unchanged from a week ago, according to the USDA Crop Progress Report Monday. For corn, the USDA rated the crop as 74% good/excellent, equal to a week ago and ...
Tags: Corn Harvest, soybean
Sajjan Jindal, the millionaire owner of Indian steel producer JSW Steel, has stated that he has offered less than $100 million to buy the steel complex of Italian steelmaker Lucchini in Piombino, Tuscany, Italy, while not wanting to take on ...
Lead times and prices in the electronics components industry saw a little more movement in September than in prior months, according to Avnet’s latest Market & Technology Trends report. Pricing of analog components, discretes, logic ...
Tags: Component Trends, Volatility, Electrical