State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp has submitted a formal request to the National Board of Revenue seeking a waiver from local taxes, value added taxes and other duties imposed on refined oil product imports, in order to borrow less from ...
Tags: Petroleum, Tax Waivers, Oil Product
In January of the current year, Taiwan's basic metal and basic metal product export orders amounted to $2.36 billion, down 6.7 percent compared to December and decreasing by 4.5 percent compared to January 2013, according to Taiwan's ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013, amounted to 4.81 ...
Tags: Dri Output, Mineral
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have suggested a method that could significantly increase the efficiency of green-blue-ultraviolet LEDs based on GaInN/GaN, AlGaN/GaN and AlInN/GaN quantum wells. It is reckoned that ...
Robotics are moving up the production line and bringing with them increased safety and productivity benefits. Shifts in robotics use are reported in a newly released business intelligence study from US trade association for packaging and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Robotics
The liquidation of the March contract proceeded in a speedy and orderly fashion, as open interest was down to just 6’393 contracts or 639’300 bales as of this morning. With another 3’300 contracts trading, most of ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Textile
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month. The companies detailed ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has acquired Nitronex LLC of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes ...
Tags: GaN technology, MACOM
A group of U.S. hardwood plywood producers is seeking a judicial review of the International Trade Commission's decision not to pursue an antidumping case against Chinese hardwood plywood producers, which the U.S. companies say are selling ...
Tags: Plywood, Furniture, Construction
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in December last year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased ...
Tags: Construction Output, Mineral
In December last year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments decreased by 11.34 percent compared to November and were down 1.63 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 829,474 metric tons. 73 percent of shipments were made to the ...
Tags: HR Steel Strip, Mineral
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in December last year increased by 17.3 percent compared to the same month of the previous year following the 15.9 percent year-on-year ...
Tags: Basic Metals, Mineral
In December last year, Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 66.1 percent year on year and increased by 12.63 percent compared to the previous month to 44,427 metric tons, following the 0.48 percent month-on-month decrease recorded ...
Tags: Stainless Flat Steel, Mineral
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 58,107 mt in December last year, decreasing by 52.8 percent compared to November and down 0.9 percent ...
Tags: Carbon, Alloy Steel
AR Packaging Group has canceled the divestment process owing to the failed sale of the tobacco business. Earlier in November 2013, the company had signed agreements to divest all its businesses that consist of tobacco, specialties and ...
Tags: AR Packaging, Divestment Process