Shortages of natural resources and raw materials can make prices fluctuate substantially and even bring electronics manufacturing to a screeching halt. Proper planning is critical to staying ahead of the potential shortages. Bindiya ...
Tags: Raw Materials, natural resources
Smithfield Foods, Inc., a wholly owned independent subsidiary of WH Group Limited, reported record 2014 first quarter results. All comparisons are to the first quarter of 2013. Sales for the first quarter of 2014 were $3.4 billion, up 3%. ...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, fresh pork
Basque region, Spain-based seamless stainless steel pipe producer Tubacex has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year. The company registered a net profit of €5.6 million in the given quarter, up 59.8 percent ...
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Efficient textile production in terms of energy and resources will be the main topic of German exhibitors at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2014, mid of June in Shanghai. Volatile prices and sporadic shortages for energy as well as commodities and ...
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Standard Chartered Bank (China) chief executive said on China-Africa trade recently, based on the standard chartered bank for many years of the successful experience in China-Africa service trade and business, we think the China-Africa ...
Tags: Economy
Salt of the Earth, an Israeli salt producer, has invested €1m to launch an enhanced automatic packaging production line for tablets and granular salt products. The company is replacing premade polyethylene (PE) bags with rolls and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Salt, Salt Packaging
Lifeway Foods, a leading supplier of cultured dairy products known as kefir and organic kefir, announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. First quarter of 2014 gross sales increased approximately 16% to $32.1 million ...
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The range has been developed to promote the qualities of bamboo while encouraging kids to build confidence and balance. GreenChamp Bikes is heading to Kickstarter to prove that bamboo can be used to create almost anything. And that ...
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Reacting on the apparel exports data, for the month of April 2014-15, Mr. Virender Uppal, Chairman AEPC, remarked, “This is the first month of the 2014-15 and Apparel Exports have recorded the growth of 14.33% compared to the April ...
Tags: April Apparel, Apparel Exports
Marketsandmarkets report, "Acrylic Resins Market by Raw Material (Acrylates, Methacrylates, Hybrids and Others), by Solvency, by Property (Thermoplastics and Thermosetting) & by Application (Paints & Coatings, Construction, Industrial & ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating, Acrylic Resins
LED chips are a core component in the LED industry. There are currently many domestic and international LED chip manufacturers in China, but there currently are no categorization standards, according to a report by Chinese-language ...
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Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. posted net income of 6.5 billion yen on net sales of 139.9 billion yen for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of 5.6 billon yen on sales of more than 127.6 billion yen for 1Q 2013. ...
Tags: Tire, Tyre, auto parts
PET resins producer DAK Americas Argentina has acquired a PET bottle recycling operation CabelmaPET, in Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cabelma, a manufacturer of plastic-crates, is not part of the acquisition, while 100 employees ...
Tags: PET resins, DAK Americas
In April this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 2.0 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 9. Meanwhile, in April ...
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China's steel production has plateaued and mills are focusing on complying with tougher anti-pollution measures instead of expanding capacity, a senior official at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said on Wednesday. The fight ...
Tags: Steel Production, Iron, Steel