Iowa's livestock sector continues to help support the state's economy by adding 20,500 jobs within the past decade, according to the recent United Soybean Board-funded Animal Agriculture Economic Analysis. A successful animal ag industry ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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Ennis, Inc. reported financial results for the three and six months ended November 30, 2013. Highlights for the quarter include: - Consolidated gross profit margin increased 400 basis points for the quarter and 430 basis points for the ...
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The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
Tags: rare earth smuggling, illegal rare earth, rare earth mining and trading
As a strong support for Jiangyin Chengxing Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chengxing Group) to build a 100 million-level enterprise, the 2nd-phase PTA technological improvement project with a productive capacity of ...
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has hit the supply chain management with increasing intensity. Now OEMs have to navigate the complexity of getting the supply chain on board. CSR initiatives span the breadth of the ...
Tags: Chain, Industrial Equipment, Components
Tax revenues continue bouncing back from the low levels reported in almost all countries , at the height of the global economic crisis, according to new OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication. The average tax revenue to GDP ...
Although oil demand will continue to increase globally, it will become the fuel with the slowest consumption growth because of structural changes in the energy sector, experts said. China will surpass the United States, becoming the ...
The Pakistani textile industry has urged the Government to establish Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) Cell, in order to fully utilize the duty-free access to the European Union (EU) and earn foreign exchange. The proposal ...
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The American Thoracic Society, which has been based in New York City since 1905, is pleased with the city council vote yesterday prohibiting the use of electronic cigarettes in indoor public areas where smoking regular cigarettes is also ...
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Fifteen years after the $246 billion tobacco legal settlements were reached most states are not spending much on tobacco cessation, U.S. researchers say. Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable U.S. death, killing more than 400,000 ...
Although the Affordable Care Act has been blamed for increased health insurance premiums, little is attributed to healthcare reform, U.S. researchers say. The analysis for the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation supporting independent ...
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Nickel prices are likely to be pushed higher in 2014 if Indonesia introduces an export ban on laterite nickel ore, which would tighten supply particularly for China, according to Dan Loughner, the head of Australian nickel producer Western ...
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China's Ministry of Finance said Monday the country's export tax on indium will be lowered to 2% in 2014 from the current 5%. The cut follows years of lobbying by Chinese producers, who claim the tax has encouraged smuggling. China ...
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The cost of construction is set to go up further following an increase of Rs10-20 made in the prices of cement by manufacturers in the southern region. Retailers said that after the jump in prices, retail price of Falcon cement hovers ...
Tags: cement, decoration