US-based pharmaceutical company Merck & Co has recalled Liptruzet products from wholesalers in the domestic market due to a defect in the product's packaging. The defective outer laminated foil pouches are liable to allow air and moisture ...
Medtronic willfully infringed on an Edwards Lifesciences’ patent with its CoreValve transcatheter heart valve, and owes Edwards nearly $394 million in damages and patent royalties, a federal jury in Delaware found Wednesday. Edwards ...
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According to a report released by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), in December last year the producer price index (PPI) for the UK manufacturing industry did not indicate any change compared to November, following a ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
In the first 11 months of last year, Japan's galvanized sheet output amounted to 10.83 million mt, down 1.55 percent compared to same period of 2012. In November, the country's galvanized sheet output decreased by 4.10 percent compared to ...
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US PVC maker Axiall will raise its suspension grade PVC prices on February 1 by 3 cents/lb, or as contracts allow, the company said Friday in a letter to customers. The increase follows a similar announcement from December 3, when the ...
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An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri says demand will play a key role in the profitability of pork producers throughout 2014. As the result of dramatically lower feed costs and stable live hog prices U.S. pork ...
Due to the stocktaking at end of year, the demand for steel round bars in the Taiwanese domestic market seems to become slow. However, since the Chinese mills said they may raise new S45C round bar export offer price, it has pushed ...
Tags: steel round bars, Taiwanese domestic market, demand, price
In November last year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments increased by 10.51 percent compared to October and were up 12.23 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 935,627 metric tons. 73.93 percent of shipments were made to ...
Tags: HR Steel Strip, Mineral
WHEAT: U.S. wheat supplies for 2013/14 are unchanged this month, but lower expected use raises projected ending stocks 33 million bushels. Feed and residual use is lowered 60 million bushels reflecting disappearance for June-November as ...
Tags: Wheat Exports, Wheat, Bushels
Certain paper crafts like card making and scrapbooking can really benefit from adhesives that are mess-free because of how easily the finished item can be ruined if the wrong glue or adhesive is used.But glue tape is the can help the ...
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The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) has set a target to achieve 12 percent growth in exports this year, reports Vietnam Plus. Although economic difficulties are forecast for 2014, Vietnam’s apparel sector is ...
In the first 11 months of last year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip output decreased by 0.66 percent year on year to 5.99 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. Meanwhile, in the given period ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip Shipments, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
"The United States stands on the cusp of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovation," writes Stanford researcher Vivek Wadhwa in a recent editorial in The Washington Post. The basic notion ...
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The Australian government has decided to launch an antidumping duty investigation regarding quenched and tempered steel plate imports from Finland, Japan and Sweden. The investigation follows an application by Australia-based Bisalloy ...
Tags: Certain Steel Plate, Steel, Steel News
In November last year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.28 million mt, increasing by 4.26 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Exports, Steel, Steel News