Retail sales remained resilient in the year to November, with the pace of growth expected to accelerate once again in the crucial Christmas run up, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey of ...
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 4,398,000 net tons (nt) of steel in October, including 3,396,000 nt of finished steel (up 12.8 percent ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Iron Steel
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWL9281 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) to Huawei for the new Ascend Mate 7 which, with a 6.0-inch ...
Tags: WiFi Connectivity, Electrical
Just like Australia Post, the UK's Royal Mail is experiencing a loss of profitability from the parcel boom and mail bust. It is, however, also looking down the barrel of Amazon’s own delivery network, which threatens future growth ...
Tags: Royal Mail, Parcel Pinch, Service
Packaging solutions provider Multivac has launched a packaging solution R 900 for filling water beakers for the first time. The solution has been designed for the portion packing of drinking water and has the capacity to produce up to ...
Tags: beakers, packaging solution, Agriculture
Hamburg based KTG Agrar has acquired the deep-freezing facility in Manschnow, which currently processes about 20,000 tonnes of frozen vegetables per year. With a capacity of 10,000 pallets, the plant comprises three packaging lines and ...
China's crude imports from its major suppliers, including Iran, rose significantly in October versus a year ago, save for top exporters Saudi Arabia and Angola, detailed data from the General Administration of Customs showed Saturday, ...
Tags: Crude imports, Crude Oil
Ford is planning to cut 20% of its staff, around 680 employees from its Craiova plant in Romanian division due to decline in sales of the company’s products in the European market. Ford will offer voluntary redundancy programme to ...
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed a ban on meat imports from Montenegro citing illegal export practices. The agency claimed that the EU is allegedly smuggling its meat to Russia under labels of Montenegro, TASS ...
Tags: Illegal re-exports of meat products, food safety, Agriculture
The key to the future of the wool sector, is a combined approach across the wool supply chain, beginning from farmers to traders to manufacturers, delegates at British Wool Marketing Board’s (BWMB) conference were told last week. ...
Tags: wool supply chain, British Wool Marketing Board, Textile
Never mind the Scrooges out there now complaining about wall-to-wall Christmas TV ads – for contract packers the festive dash began months ago and isn’t far off being all wrapped up for another year. The pressure on factory ...
Due to inventory adjustments at lighting makers and weak demand for TV backlighting applications, LED chip makers are expected to suffer significant on-quarter decreases in shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to LED supply ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED Epitaxial Wafer, LED
UK-based eco packaging specialist Biopac has developed a range of environment-friendly disposables for the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) in support of its new, 'Cafe Rating'. The SRA has launched a new cafe rating to improve ...
Tags: eco packaging, Cafe Rating, Agriculture
BRF ended the third quarter of 2014 with net income of R$ 624 million, an increase of 117.5% over 3Q13. This performance arose from the management techniques and processes that have been implemented over the last year and highlight the ...
Tags: Brazilian operations, Net Operating Revenues, Agriculture
Darling Ingredients, a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, ...