July June Increase Rate over Last Month Historical Average in July Manufacturing PMI 50.3 50.1 0.2 51.2 Production Index 52.4 52 0.4 ...
Tags: Manufacturing Purchasing Managers, Manufacturing, economy
Former Chinese commodities trader Jerry Ren, who is quietly building a mining empire in the Australian outback, scoffs at talk the resources boom is over. For him its just moved north. As some mining firms clock up billions of dollars in ...
Tags: Mining Boom, Chemicals
Bahrain has lifted the restrictions on food imports from Japan, which were imposed after the nuclear disaster in March 2011, which was caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami that stuck the island nation. With this move, Bahrain has ...
Tags: Food Imports
Samsung Electronics claims that Ericsson demanded billions more for patent licenses after their license agreement expired in 2007. The company made its claim in a document filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on ...
Tags: Samsung, Ericsson, Patent Licenses, Computer Products
Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP) announces its "Race to Champion's Week" promotion running now through Oct. 31, 2013. All visitors to the TechSmart, Standard and Intermotor brand Facebook pages can enter to win an all-expense paid trip ...
Tags: Auto Parts
Hiden Analytical Ltd of Warrington, UK has introduced its HPR-20 QIC TMS gas analyser, specifically configured for analysis of fast transient pulses and of rapid compositional changes in gaseous processes. Developed for the researcher, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Centric Parts has once again been awarded a Friction Materials Standards Institute (FMSI) Award for contributions to the automotive industry. This is the 11th year in a row that Centric Parts has been so honored by FMSI dating back to the ...
Tags: Friction Materials, Auto Parts
Mozilla is developing a protocol that aims to let security tools and Web browsers work better together. Configuring a web browser to work with a security tool involves writing platform and browser-specific extensions, a non-trivial ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Tyre company Kumho has teamed up with prominent IT company Asiana IDT to claim to become the first tyre manufacturer in the world to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in all its commercial, 4×4 and passenger vehicle ...
According to data released by Taiwan’s customs, Taiwan’s imports of wire rods totaled 26,303 tons in July, soaring by 62% from a month ago. Among them, the imports of wire rods with diameters less than 14mm totaled 24,538 tons, ...
Tags: Wire Rod Imports
Reportedly, steel plate prices on grade SS400 of thickness 14-20mm in Vietnam increased again in some regions from higher import quotations. Traders believe that the price is likely to rise further in the short term even though the demand ...
Tags: Steel Plate Price
According to data released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (Kosa), Korea’s imports of heavy plates totaled 200,200 tons in July, soaring by 33% from a month ago. However, the country’s import of heavy plates slumped by 43% ...
Tags: Plate Imports, Mineral
World cotton trade is projected at 38.4 million bales in 2013/14, 18 percent below last season’s record of nearly 46.7 million bales. The decrease is attributable to the anticipated reduction in China’s import demand from an ...
Tags: Cotton Trade, Textile
After the December contract had reached a high of 93.72 cents last Friday, followed by another attempt to a high of 93.54 cents on Monday, the ferocious rally that took the spot month nearly 900 points higher over the course of just nine ...
According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first half of the current year Turkey's billet imports amounted to 1.5 million mt, rising 34 percent year on year, while its slab imports ...