In the third quarter of 2013, US-American hardwood-lumber exports showed year-on-year growth similar to that achieved in the first half of the year. Total deliveries up to the end of September, at 2.548m m3, therefore increased by 8% year ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Hardwood-Lumber
HP's fourth quarter results saw its shares jump seven per cent, after sales in its enterprise division grew, reinforcing CEO Meg Whitman's belief that revenue lost from HP's ailingPC business can be clawed back by the enterprise group. ...
Homag Group has reported a 4.4 % reduction in order intake to €142.1m in the third quarter of 2013 from €148.6m in the previous quarter. However, new orders were 13.8 % higher than the same stretch last year. CEO Dr. Markus Flik ...
Tags: Homag Group, Order Intake, Year-on-Year Rise
In October this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 2.5 percent year on year to 291,000 mt, while its crude steel production was unchanged year on year at 333,600 mt, according to the ...
Tags: Finished Steel, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Air freight markets stabilised in September, after an extended period of slow increase. Global freight tonne kilometres were up 0.5% in September year-on-year, a slowdown on the 3.4% growth in August, and there was no increase in volumes ...
Tags: Global Market Transport, Service, Transport
On October 28, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) announced that in the first nine months of this year China's logistics sector recorded a 9.5 percent year-on-year rise in the total value of goods transported to RMB ...
Tags: Transportation, logistics
The output of the European Union's construction industry is foreseen to drop by 3.5 percent this year, while the downtrend in EU construction sector output is expected to end in 2014 with a rise of one percent predicted for the year, ...
Tags: Construction Output, Mineral
Rising domestic demand provides firm basis for expansion in the industrial sector British bank HSBC Holdings Plc said that China's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index will rise to a seven-month high of 50.9 in October, up from 50.2 ...
Tags: domestic demand, Chemicals
Amid growing demand for natural gas, China's top economic planner has called for an increase in imports and stronger cooperation with Central Asian countries to ensure a stable supply in the coming winter. The National Development and ...
Tags: Gas Imports, natural gas
In the January-September period of the current year, Southern Kuzbass Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Russian mining and steel producing group Mechel, saw a 8.8 percent year-on-year rise in its coal output to 11.023 million mt, including ...
Tags: Coal Output
Citadel Capital, an investment company based in Africa and the Middle East, has secured a 49% stake in ent company based in Africa and the Middle East, has secured a 49% stake in Sphinx Glass, a float glass manufacturer, from DH Investors ...
Tags: Sphinx Glass, Citadel Capital
SAP sees "unlimited" potential for growth in Brazil, according to the firm's managing director of SAP Southern Latin America, Diego Dzodan. Speaking at SAP's Innovation Tour, Dzodan said that the company has had a presence in Brazil for ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
China's auto market grew by double digits in August as carmakers tapped the sales momentum from January to July. Sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles rose 10.3 percent in August from a year earlier to 1.65 million units. On a ...
Tags: Auto Market, Passenger Cars
The exports of textiles and garments by Asean member countries to the US and the EU markets declined in 2012, the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) has said. The maximum decline in exports was posted by Philippines, whose textile and ...
Tags: Textile Exports, garments
The UK's GCSE results came out this week and, on the whole, it's been positive news for the IT industry, with a 38 per cent year-on-year rise in students aged 14-16 taking the ICT exam - 73,847 exams sat this year compared to 53,197 last ...
Tags: Computer Products, Service