The increase in electricity tariff will push the prices of Indonesian garments by up to 50 percent, making the industry less competitive in both domestic and export markets, Indonesian Synthetic Fiber Producers Association (Asosiasi ...
Tags: Power Tariff, Garment Prices
Treofan, a producer of BOPP film, will invest about €30m in building a new 8.7m production line at its Neunkirchen plant in Saarland, Germany. The new line, which was specially designed by Andritz, will manufacture packaging and ...
The Chinese import price for Indian-origin ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) inched higher to 84-86 cents/lb CIF China Friday, from 84-85 cents/lb CIF a week ago, as Chinese buyers lifted their price ideas amid a strengthening Chinese yuan against ...
Tags: Origin Material, Chemicals
Pouch packaging is exciting. Designers are excited about it. Retailers are excited by it. The result of these two things is that the pouch packaging hitting the shelves now has some real star performers – eye catching, innovative and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Pouch packaging
Saudi Cement has posted a $68.3m (SAR 256m) net profit for the fourth quarter of 2013 – an 8% fall from the $74.1m (SAR 278m) figure it recorded in the same period the previous year. The company attributed the profit drop to a ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
In the wake of recently earned Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+) status, Rukhsana Shah, Federal Secretary of Textile Industry Division, Pakistan has advised value-added textile entrepreneurs to focus on the Eastern European ...
Tags: Textile, Eastern Europe
ZHANG CHENGLIANG/CHINA DAILY Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time. "We have confidence in China's iron ore demand because ...
Mounty Airy, North Carolina-based Insteel Industries reported Thursday net earnings of $2.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2014 (ended December 28, 2013), compared to $2.4 million in the same quarter of the previous year. Net sales ...
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The American Coatings Conference (ACC) will commence with a keynote presentation given by Charles F. Kahle, II, chief technology officer and vice president, Coatings R&D at PPG Industries. Starting with a wide lens on the future, Dr. ...
In 2013, Russia's economy has experienced the worst performance since the financial crisis, the growth rate is far lower than expected. The main economic difficulties for continuous zero growth of export, decline in industrial production, ...
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The use of biomaterials and more benign chemicals in coatings in Europe is accelerating as whole supply chains give greater priority to sustainablity, particularly as a means of protecting the environment. At the same time, however, ...
Tags: standards for biomaterials, sustainability of products
India's Steel Ministry and Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources have signed a letter of intent for cooperation in the iron and steel industry, according to India's Press Information Bureau. Under the cooperation agreement, both ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless (NSSC), the largest stainless steel producer in Japan announced to hike its prices for stainless cold rolled coils (CRC) and plates for January contracts, in order to reflect higher raw material costs. The ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its list price for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods for February on January 16th. Industry sources predicted that CSC might leave its list price ...
In the week ending January 11, 2014, farmers and ginners in India held to their cotton without any fear of downtrend, says a weekly report on cotton market trends released by S. Ajay Kumar & Company. During the week, cotton market ...
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