Delta Apparel, Inc. plans to consolidate fabric production for basic, blank tee shirts to its Ceiba Textiles facility in Honduras. The consolidation transfers the production of some fabric for basic tees currently manufactured at the ...
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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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Brazil steel maker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) plans to expand its presence in the domestic rebar market, local media reported on Tuesday. The company has just entered in the long products segment and is eyeing a 9 percent market ...
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In the first five months this year, sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Turkey decreased by 26.31 percent year on year to 226,698 units, according to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association ...
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Large Chinese thermal coal miners were dropping their selling prices for domestic 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal, depressing demand for imported material, sources said Friday. An Indonesia-based trader said that Shenhua had cut its price for ...
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Hundred Birds Costume is a well-told story in the folk life of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, most typical of the Baiyue ethnic minority group. The story reflected the happiness and sorrow of people in the Zhuang autonomous region, their ...
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Supported by (UKTI) the BFM led a research mission to the Shenzhen International Furniture Exhibition (SIFE) last March to explore its potential as an exhibition platform for four BFM member companies – Charles Barr Furniture, ...
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The volume of cotton traded internationally is expected to decline by 8% to 8.1 million tons in 2014/15, driven by reduced shipments to China from a record of 5.3 million tons in 2011/12 to an anticipated 2.1 million tons 2014/15. While the ...
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United States Steel Corporation announced Monday that it will indefinitely idle two tubular manufacturing facilities in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Bellville, Texas, in early August, impacting approximately 260 employees as a result of ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending May 31, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,895,000 net tons, while the capability utilization rate was 78.8 percent, with output up 3.4 percent from 1,833,000 ...
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in May this year the domestic producer price index (PPI) for Turkish industry in general decreased by 0.52 percent from April and was up 11.28 percent year on ...
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China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, or BOCE, a government-backed online trading platform, has added molybdenum to its list of spot commodities, and this is expected to boost moly trade in the mainland and increase price transparency, industry ...
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China's Shanghai Shipping Freight Exchange plans to launch dry bulk freight futures contracts on June 18, the first of its kind in the global freight market, SSEFC President Yu Jun said late last week. "Being the first to launch such a ...
According to the data provided by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), in April this year Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 770,484 units, increasing by 25,164 units or 3.4 ...
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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 ...