A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile
A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
The sharemarket fell for a second consecutive day, with goldminers leading declines in cyclical sectors as the gold price rout continued in the wake of Monday's disappointing economic data from China, which added to recent concern about the ...
Tags: Goldminers, sharemarket
International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in the latest World Economic Outlook the global economy's growth would fall down to 3.3%, reducing by 0.2% than the prediction of January; global economy in 2014 would grow by 4%, remaining the ...
Tags: IMF, Global Economy's Growth
SPIE leaders said they were encouraged to see proposed increases in funds for scientific research and development and a greater emphasis on STEM education in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal released last Wednesday. At the same ...
Tags: SPIE Leaders, Science Funding
The ICE Brent front-to-second month spread fell into contango during afternoon US trade Friday, the first contango between the two contracts since July 2, 2012. ICE May Brent was down $2.50 at $103.84/b after hitting a fresh eight-month ...
Decreased customer inventories and depreciating Japanese yen and South Korean won against U.S. dollar are motivating Taiwan's machine-tool makers to accelerate expansions at home and overseas. Tongtai Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. will begin ...
Tags: Machine Tool, Hiwin Technologies
For fourth-quarter 2012, 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, has reported revenue of $128.6m, up 6.5% on $120.7m last quarter but down 13.9% on $149.4m a year ago. Revenue for ...
While some of its key metrics saw sequential declines, manufacturing growth continues to head in the right direction, according to monthly Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index ...
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
As demand for LED lighting products is heating up amid the improving global economy, Epistar is expected to see its gross margin rebound this quarter after posting a record loss last year. Due to oversupply in the LED market, which ...
Tags: LED lighting products, LED lighting, LED
Jack Mans, Plant Operatiions Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 10:48:05 AM Aerofil Technology Inc. (ATI) began its operations in Sullivan, MO, in the fall of 1988 with two small aerosol lines and less than 50,000 sq ft of space. Since ...
China, with its incredible economic significance, has become a key player in the global economy. Amidst the current global economic stagnation, it's attracting millions of professionals in pursuit of realizing their "Chinese Dream". Unlike ...
Tags: Service, Focus Vision
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the company has talked 10 K–12 school districts and higher-education institutions into adopting Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare students for futures in college and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, software, computer, Windows 8
After being re-elected president of the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO), Alonso Ancira Elizondo, CEO of Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA), said that the steel industry and the Mexican government can no longer ignore ...
Tags: steel imports, steel, Steel Industry