World cotton production in 2013/14 is forecast at 116.4 million bales, 1.6 million bales below last month’s projection, which is mainly the result of forecast reductions for China and the United States. Prices favored alternative ...
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US ethanol production fell 13,000 b/d to a three-week low of 844,000 b/d the reporting week ended August 16, but ethanol stocks rose 57,000 barrels to 16.482 million barrels, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The ...
The UK's oil producers group Oil & Gas UK cut Wednesday its forecasts for oil and gas production this year amid signs that declining output from mature fields and outages in the North Sea continue to outpace the impact of new projects and ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Powder handling equipment manufacturer Spiroflow Systems will exhibit products from its complete line of processing and packaging solutions at Pack Expo to be held from 23-25 September 2013 in Las Vegas. At the event, the company will ...
US for-hire truck tonnage dipped 0.4% in July, marking the first decline since April. The small decline came on the heels of a 0.1% increase in June. June 2013 posted the highest tonnage on record, according to American Trucking ...
Tags: Truck, Transportation
The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for July fell 0.4 percent. That's the first drop since April and comes as no surprise, said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. "After ...
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Asciano has delivered a strong result with underlying EPS up 39% and the final dividend up 56%, however, its Rail and Terminals Logistics division experienced significant weakness. Asciano has reported a 41.2% increase in statutory net ...
Australian general insurer QBE Insurance Group has posted a net profit of $477m for the first half of 2013, a decline of 37% compared to $760m for the same period last year. Underwriting profit grew by 2% to $530m for the first half of ...
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The British kitchen-furniture manufacturer and dealer Howden Joinery Group (Howdens) showed year-on-year growth in turnover of 7.2% to £390.8m in the first half of 2013. The increase resulted primarily from the operations of Howden ...
Tags: kitchen furniture, Furniture, Furnishing
Turnover generated by Surteco declined in the first half of 2013 in both strategic business units (SBUs). Turnover in the SBU Paper showed a minus of 7.6% and that in the SBU Plastics was down by 4.1%. Total Surteco turnover, at ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, and the City of Roseville, California, have signed ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
In line with the Financial Results for the first half of 2013 HC SemiTek recently released, its total revenue is 112 million Yuan, decrease of 40.42 percent compared to the same period of last year. The net profit attributable to ...
Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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Chinese export growth of manufactures, which went from a very high 19% in the first quarter of 2013 before decelerating to 3% in the second quarter, raises a number of intriguing questions, according to an analysis from the Manufacturers ...
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China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy