“Global cotton output in 2014/15 is estimated at 119.4 million bales, which is similar from the previous season, as higher area is offset by a lower global yield,” the USDA informs in its latest October report. The agency ...
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Weakening demand from cotton spinning mills in early October, led to cotton prices, resuming moving down in the Brazilian market. Spinners are offering lower prices than those quoted by sellers, for even high-quality cotton, while also ...
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The bio-based materials and chemicals industry is poised to attract nearly $1 billion in investment this year, led notably by later-stage funding rounds, according to Lux Research. The estimated $974 million investment represents a 28 ...
Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
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This growing demand for packaging is met by the automation packaging which helps speeding up the process of packaging of goods. As the demand for packaging increases the, demand for automated packaging also increases. Increasing ...
The business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce sales in Russia are expected to reach €30 billion by 2018, according to a report by Hamburg-based business intelligence organization yStats.com. In comparison to other nations, Russia is ...
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The latest USDA October report forecasts the US cotton crop for 2014 at nearly 16.3 million bales, down slightly from its last month’s forecast, but is 3.3 million bales or 26 percent above the 2013 production. According to the ...
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Smart meter is fundamentally equipped in smart grid. The advancing smart grid construction in China spurred the constant growth of smart meter demand. By the end of 2013, 370 million smart meters had been accumulatively installed in China, ...
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US construction firms added jobs in 39 states between September 2013 and September 2014 while construction employment increased in 34 states and the District of Columbia between August and September, according to an analysis of Labor ...
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Toyota has announced that it will recall further 247,000 vehicles over the safety issues related to Takata air bags. The vehicles include Toyota Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia, Tundra and Lexus SC vehicles that were manufactured between 2001 ...
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Did Microchip Technology get ahead of itself last week by suggesting that its downward revenue forecast was a negative bellwether for the whole semiconductor market? Or is there a macro-economic weakness, foreshadowed by Microchip, that ...
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Industrial property investment returns peak at 11.7 per cent with facilities 33 per cent bigger than they were in 2010, according to the latest research. Strengthening returns and increasing scale of distribution centres and warehouse ...
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It used to be that we adults just had to worry about keeping up with our children in the smarts department. (Remember the first time you had to ask your offspring to show you how to use email or Facebook?) Now, as the technological ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the longer-term performance of an LED lighting system that was installed on the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in September 2008 and represents one of the country’s oldest ...
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Despite the hype, wearables are poised to make good on their promise to have substantial influence on society and business, according to a new report from PwC. Consumers seem to be excited by the potential of wearables, regardless of the ...
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