Affected by the factors such as slowdown in growth rates of downstream sectors like iron and steel, building materials, and glass as well as the reduced demand of refractories for infrastructure construction, China's refractory materials ...
Tags: Construction, glass, steel, building materials
Soybean imports are likely to rise to a new high in the 2013-14 market year (September 2013 to August 2014) following a drop in domestic output and greater demand for animal feed and edible oil. Heilongjiang province in Northeast China, ...
Tags: Soybean Imports, Soybean Demand
AkzoNobel has strengthened its manufacturing footprint in India by opening a new €20 million decorative paints plant in Gwalior, which will have an annual capacity of 55 million liters. The eco-efficient Greenfield facility – ...
The Yukon, one of Canada's northern territories, hopes Chinese investors will invest in its rich but underdeveloped mining sector, a local official said. Murray Arsenault, the Yukon Territory's deputy economic development minister, told ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, zinc, copper, silver, tungsten, molybdenum
Oerlikon reported strong order intake and sequential margin improvement in Q3; guidance confirmed With a Q3 EBIT margin of 12.6 %, Oerlikon sequentially improved its profitability in the first nine months of 2013 and continued to deliver ...
Tags: Oerlikon, Fibers Segment
China's main cement enterprises, such as Anhui Conch Cement are expected to resume profut growth this year due to infrastructure and property investments in eastern and southern parts of China. Large-scale cement enterprises are ...
Tags: Cement Enterprises
At the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Cable-Tec Expo 2013 in Atlanta (22-24 October), broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA launched the ACA1240 CATV Edge QAM ...
Tags: Anadigics, Qam Amplifier
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has allegedly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in just one month. The reports, stemming from Spanish newspaper El Mundo, claim that documents provided by former NSA ...
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Pentair Ltd. announced third quarter 2013 sales of $1.8 billion. Sales were down 2 percent compared to adjusted pro forma sales for the same period last year. Adjusted third quarter 2013 earnings per diluted share ("EPS") were $0.86, up ...
Tags: Pentair, Processing Machinery
Europe's economy is in the doldrums. Yet companies are still looking to the future with a positive mindset. 76% of survey respondents expect a return to robust economic growth in 2015. But the prospects for European competitiveness are not ...
Tags: Competitive Edge, Europe's economy
The German economy is on the verge of an upturn driven by domestic demand. The improving global economic climate and decreasing uncertainty are fuelling investment. Private consumption is benefitting from favourable employment and income ...
Mongolia on Friday unveiled a raft of new investment agreements with China--including an oil-exploration deal—that Mongolian Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag said in an interview would build up the landlocked country's ...
Tags: oil-exploration, crude-oil
Bosch and PSA Peugeot Citron, along with other partners, are cooperating on the OpEneR (Optimal Energy Consumption and Recovery) research programme, designed to improve the range of future hybrid and electric vehicles and optimise driver ...
Tags: PSA Peugeot Citron, Bosch
Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Chief Minister (CM) of Pakistan’s Sindh province, has invited Chinese textile companies to set up their units in the Textile City being developed in the Port Industrial Area, near Karachi, in case of relocation ...
Tags: Sindh CM, Textile City
Mexico’s Minister of Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, has inaugurated a new textile plant of Seamless Global Solutions (SGS) in Puebla, according to a press release from the office of Puebla Governor. Inaugurating the ...
Tags: Textile Plant, Economy Minister