China's latest efforts to stimulate its economy by deepening structural reform will produce rich "dividends" shared within China's borders and across the world. While the effectiveness of traditional demand-side policy support lessens, ...
Tags: Structural Reform, PRO-growth
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
China's retail sales of consumer goods will see annual growth of 10.7 percent this year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) forecast Thursday. The domestic consumer market was stable this year and it gained momentum in recent months, said MOC ...
The announced merger between petrochemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont will have a significant impact on the low-density polyethylene market and could be just the beginning of large-scale consolidations, an industry consultant said ...
Tags: Dow Chemical, DuPont, polyethylene, LDPE
China's central bank projected its baseline forecast for 2016 growth at 6.8 percent on Wednesday, expecting the number of positive factors to gradually increase despite downward pressure on the economy. The rate is slightly lower than the ...
Tags: Central Bank, economy
Bravo Sports Corp. has made its first acquisition since itself being acquired this summer. The Santa Fe Spring, CA company said it acquired Pro-Tec, a 42-year-old maker of helmets and other protective gear for skate, snow and wake boarders, ...
Tags: Bravo Sports Corp, helmets, skate
In early 2016, Invista will launch a new campaign for its Coolmax and Thermolite fiber brands, which are widely used by athletic and outdoor apparel and footwear brands. The Embrace The Elements campaign reflects the new brand positioning ...
Tags: Invista, fiber brands, outdoor apparel
Bravo Sports Corp., global leader in the recreational and sporting goods markets, announces the acquisition of Pro-Tec, the original action sports protective gear brand founded in 1973. Bravo Sports Corp. has acquired protective gear ...
Tags: Bravo Sports, Pro-Tec
SATO, a leading global provider of Auto-ID solutions that empower workforces and streamline operations, announced a new embedded Application-Enabled Printing (AEP) feature for its CL4NX/CL6NX line of universal industrial printers. SATO ...
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Boussaa Emballages has invested in a new five-colour press with coater that will go into operation next March in the Tunisian capital Tunis. Mohamed Boussaa was 18 years old when he founded his company in 1958 thus making it one of ...
Ukraine is seeking extra imports of anthracite coal from South Africa and other sources on looming shortages after supplies from Russia and territories controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk regions were suspended, ...
Tags: Coal, anthracite, natural gas
Instrument Systems GmbH Munich is a leader indeveloping and manufacturing high-precision light measurement systems. With the new offer of stray light correction during the calibration of array spectrometers, Instrument Systems now is the ...
Tags: Stray Light Correction, UV LEDs
A shipment of ethanol from Brazil left Santos on November 21 and is due to land in Dunkirk, France December 7, according to Platts' trade flow software cFlow. The Chemroad Hope is carrying a combination of 2,500 cum of neutral ethanol, ...
Tags: ethanol, T2 ethanol, neutral ethanol
Ukraine will not import Russian natural gas through the end of the year due to weaker domestic demand and sufficient gas reserves, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Monday. Ukraine, which resumed Russian gas ...
Tags: Ukraine, Natural Gas, high gas prices
AgiLight® Sustainable and Environmentally–Friendly LED Signage Lighting Products Enters South African Marketplace This agreement opens up a new and exciting market for AgiLight and keeps the company on its dramatic growth ...
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