Australian port and rail company Asciano Wednesday posted a 41.2% year-on-year rise in net profit to A$342 million ($311 million) for the fiscal year to June 30, due in part to new rail contracts to haul coal in the state of Queensland and ...
Tags: Coal, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China’s gold consumption reached 706.36 tons in the first six months of 2013, a year-on-year rise of 53.7 percent of 246.78 tons, according to statistics released by China Gold Association on August 12. A total 383.86 tons of gold ...
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On August 13, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced that in the first half of this year China's logistics sector recorded a 9.1 percent year-on-year rise in the total value of goods transported to RMB 93.1 ...
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In July this year, new passenger car registrations in the German market grew by two percent year on year to 253,150 units, marking just the second year-on-year rise this year following the growth recorded in April, and were down 10.5 ...
Tags: Car Market, Mineral
In July this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 9.5 percent to 282,900 mt, while its crude steel production rose by 7.7 percent to 341,600 mt, both year on year, according to the company's ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), EU steel imports remained at a high level in the second quarter of the current year, after ...
About a third of the country's baby formula businesses will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer ...
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In the first three months of 2013, the USA imported a total of 6.093m m3 of softwood lumber, representing a year-on-year rise of roughly 16%. According to figures issued by the Foreign Agriculture Service the value of imported softwood ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
New commercial vehicle demand across the European Union (EU) in April this year increased for the first time since December 2011, with a year-on-year rise of 3.6 percent, mainly sustained by demand for new vans, according to the European ...
Various textile associations in Pakistan are debating whether there is any need for continuation of a separate Ministry of Textile Industry or should it be merged with the Ministry of Commerce. The Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and ...
As a device pumping gases at a high speed to improve and maintain a vacuum state within a wide pressure range, vacuum pump is widely applied in the industries such as metallurgy, chemical, food and electroplating. In 2011, the output of ...
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In February this year, the flat steel imports of the European Union (EU) reached 1.331 million mt, while EU long steel imports amounted to 254,000 mt, as announced by the European Steel Association (EUROFER). Accordingly, overall EU ...
Tags: Finished Steel Imports, Mineral
The exports of garments and textiles from Vietnam have reached US$ 4.2 billion during the first quarter of the current year, registering a year-on-year rise of 16 percent, according to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS). ...
The total value of petrochemical production in China grew 11.6 percent year-on-year to 1.72 trillion yuan during the initial two months of the current year, the data released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said. ...
Tags: Chemicals, petrochemical
Posting a year-on-year rise of 6.55 percent, Pakistan exported US$ 8.483 billion worth of textiles during July to February—the first eight months of the ongoing financial year 2012-13, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data shows. ...
Tags: textile exports, textile, apparel exports