For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
A combination of low inventories and refinery maintenance could be spurring some Chinese state-owned companies to seek gasoil imports for the fourth quarter, sources said this week. Though market sources said that state-owned trader ...
Tags: Gasoil, sulfur gasoil, crude oil
Following the anti-dumping and countervailing measures imposed by the US on China and Taiwan solar PV makers, the European Union (EU) is now investigating other Asia countries for allegedly helping China violate the terms of a solar-export ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its 16th annual container stevedoring monitoring report. “Increased competition is delivering improvements in Australian stevedoring, which build on significant gains ...
Tags: delivering improvements, logistics
At the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Autumn Convention held on 27-28 October in Paris, concerns have emerged regarding a matter which only a few market players have considered with due attention so far, i.e., the volumes of steel ...
Tags: BIR, Convention, Energy
Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., has issued its financial results for the first nine months of the current year, posting an operating revenue of RMB ...
Tags: Chongqing Iron and Steel, Results, Energy
Supported by the commissioning of two lines, the VSF business at Grasim Industries, achieved record sales volume of 100,927 tons, up 8% from a year ago quarter in the second fiscal quarter ending September 2014. “Concerted market ...
Irish producer of alcoholic beverages C&C Group has reported 2.7% slump in operating profits to €69.2m during the six months ending August. The company said that its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell ...
Tags: C&C Group, Operating Profits, Food
StayinFront announced a global agreement with Mondelez International, a global snacking powerhouse, with billion-dollar brands, such as Oreo, LU and Nabisco biscuits; Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate; to deliver SaaS mobile ...
Tags: StayinFront, Solution, Food
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Friday that the US imported a total of 3,892,000 net tons (nt) of steel in September, including 2,946,000 nt of finished steel (up 5.2 percent ...
Tags: Import Market, 29 Percent, Energy
Total search volumes for home and garden grew by 15% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, reports the BRC. Search volumes on smartphones outpaced search volumes on tablets, with growth of 41% compared ...
Tags: Housing Market, Garden Searches
Retail sales volumes continued to grow in the year to October, with another strong rise expected in the month ahead, according to the CBI. The CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey of 124 firms showed a third successive ...
Tags: High Street Sales, Furnishing
Global packaging company Tetra Pak has announced the launch of what it said is the first carton made entirely from plant based, renewable packaging materials. Tetra Pak said the new Tetra Rex carton will be the first in the market to have ...
Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific is to build a multi-million dollar flexible packaging plant in the Philippines. The new plant will manufacture high performance packaging for a leading multinational consumer brand. Managing director, Ken ...
Tags: Amcor Flexibles, Asia, Printing