A Pakistan cotton ginners trade body has demanded that cotton farmers be assured a government support price to stop their exploitation by textile mills. At a press conference, office bearers of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association ...
Tags: Body, support price, Textile
At least 38.4 GW of solar electricity was connected to the grid globally in 2013, but new policies in Europe have seen the technology slip back behind wind energy in terms of new deployments. Those are two of the key findings in an ...
Tags: solar electricity
China natural gas markets are rather hot in the first quarter, continuing the optimistic markets since last quarter last year. And Sinotruk delivered quite a few orders in March and they delivered 30 HOWO-A7 natural gas trucks to Lionbridge ...
Tags: Sinotruk, Natural Gas Trucks
While Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been generally shifting to, or increasing production of, monocrystalline solar cells to meet growing demand, Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers are ...
ASA Automotive Systems has released the latest versions of its TireMaster 8.8.0 and TireMaster POS 3.8.8 software for independent tire dealers. Carfax service history reports are among the improvements. The company says many of the ...
Tags: Auto Parts
For first-quarter 2014, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has reported revenue of $7.4m, down 5% on $7.8m last quarter ...
Tags: GigOptix, Electrical, Electronics
CCA has announced it expects its earnings will decline Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced it expects its group earnings before interest and tax for the first half of 2014 to decline by around 15 per cent ...
Tags: beverages, Agriculture, Food
Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Medium Term
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
The Chinese government on Saturday announced measures to further promote the use of new-energy vehicles in an effort to save energy and cut emission Subsidies for new-energy car buyers in 2014 and 2015 will be raised from previous levels ...
Tags: New-Energy Cars, Energy
China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
Tags: Chinese Robotics, Foreign Firms
As open as the Canadian market is to LNG vehicles, it still pales behind the reception China is giving the alternative fuel. According to Tom Campbell, head of analysis at Zeus Intelligence, a research company specializing in LNG and ...
Tags: LNG Vehicles, alternative fuel
Three-year project will encourage national expansion of Workplace Standard The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), along with its partners, CSA Group (CSA) and Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ), joined Labour Minister ...
China will remain the leading global consumer of wind turbine rotor blades over the coming years, with its market value expected to increase from $2 billion in 2012 to $3.7 billion by 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 8.2 percent. ...
Tags: Wind Rotor Blade, Wind Energy
For the most part of 2012 and 2013 the textile sector was besieged by twin impacts of slowing domestic consumption and slowdown in export demand. However recent pick up in export demand is expected to improve the fortunes of textile ...
Tags: Textile Exports, US market