Turkish petrochemical producer Petkim Thursday increased the prices of polyolefins by $15-20/mt, sources said. Petkim was not immediately available to confirm. New list prices for low density polyethylene, high density PE injection ...
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The sale of “The Winston Blue” helped bring Christie’s auction held Wednesday in Geneva to the status of highest total ever for a jewelry auction. The diamond sold for more than $23 million. See the top 10 lots from ...
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There was an upbeat atmosphere among the 2575 visitors and the 100 exhibitors at Made in France on 9 & 10 April, building on momentum from last year with another double-digit rise in attendance: +15.9%. The show’s fantastic new ...
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After reporting revenue for full-year 2013 in late January, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has now reported its full earnings figures. ...
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VDMA's Photonics Congress forecasts rapid growth of the sector in Germany and beyond. Industrialists and politicians mingled at Photonics Congress 2014 in Berlin. At last month’s Photonics Congress 2014, which was hosted in ...
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A particularly mild winter has aided sales at family-owned home department stores Leekes, which has reported a strong performance over Christmas and the new year. The retail business saw an overall 20% increase in visitor numbers across ...
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The front-month Brent-WTI spread settled at a fresh five-month low of $6.48/barrel Friday, as steady drawdowns in crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub have lent upside support to WTI, while Brent remains subdued. NYMEX ...
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Laser sales set to grow with recovering economies 10 Feb 2014 Seminar in San Francisco hears that sensing applications will be a key growth driver in the coming years. Lasers on show The global laser industry, strong in many areas ...
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Today, we await a much anticipated WASDE report. Ahead of this release, the markets this morning show wheat on the decline, flirting with 574 while March soybeans remain buoyant in the 1330's. Corn is steady in the lower 440's. Recently, ...
Nigerian crudes for March loading have sold well with less than 10 cargoes unsold from the March program, because of healthy demand from Europe and India, although the remaining grades were struggling to sell, sources said Wednesday. More ...
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UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced its financial results for 2013, stating that its sales revenues amounted to AED 6.5 billion ($ 1.8 billion), almost eight percent higher than 2012, despite sluggish ...
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Confidence is clearly returning within the UK printing sector, according to the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. When questioned regarding the general state of trade during the final quarter of 2013, more than half (55%) believed that ...
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The mood of German consumers was notably buoyant at the start of 2014. Both economic and income expectations as well as willingness to buy improved, in part quite considerably. Following a revised value of 7.7 points in January, the overall ...
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UK-based MPE, a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and Tempest filters and feed-through capacitors, has appointed Electrade as its distributor covering the whole of Germany for both ...
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Australia's mid-market businesses are experiencing a sharp increase in confidence and renewed optimism around future performance, according to the Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index. The index reveals confidence reached the highest ...
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