Greg Kauter, Cotton Australia’s (CA) Policy Manager – Research Direction and Stewardship, has just returned from attending the International Cotton Association annual trade show in Hong Kong, which featured a joint display by CA ...
Tags: cotton trade show, cotton market, cotton industry, cotton price
The Brazilian textile and apparel industry – among the top five in the world is reeling under the impact of two challenges – large scale imports and high labour and energy costs. These have created a cascading effect in the form ...
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Shanghai Daily reported that profits of Chinese industrial companies grew for a second month in October, indicating strengthening economic stabilization in the world's largest manufacturing base. National Bureau of Statistics said that ...
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The Government of India’s decision to restructure loans worth Rs. 350 billion is expected to play a major role in revival of the industry, Mr. V Narayanasamy, Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said, ...
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Promotional Road Show on India’s International Textile Machinery Exhibition (ITME) 2012 was held in Pakistani cities of Lahore and Karachi. India ITME, considered to be the second biggest textile technology exhibition in the ...
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Reuters reported that London copper edged down after rising for two weeks in a row although signs of economic recovery in top consumer China and hopes for Greece to avert an imminent bankruptcy kept a floor under prices. Copper prices ...
PTI quoted a CII survey saying that a majority of units in the manufacturing sector are expected to register low to negative growth in the October to December quarter of this year, mainly due to high interest rates and increasing prices. ...
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According to new research by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association, the Gulf petrochemicals sector added 34,564 jobs between 2010 and 2011 an increase of 11%. According to a new GPCA publication, GCC Petrochemicals & ...
THE political production line went into overtime following yesterday’s announcement. MPs and AMs of all political hues reacted to the news almost as soon as it became public. Aberavon MP Hywel Francis rued it as grim news ...
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The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) non-monthly Non-Manufacturing Report on Business for October was down slightly from October but remained firmly in growth territory. The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing ...
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Reuters reported that London copper was steady and set to log a second week of gains after recent data fuelled hope that the Chinese and US economies have finally turned a corner but the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States drained ...
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The Textang II textile plant based in Cazenga district of Luanda province would restart production towards end of 2013, according to Angolan Minister of Industry Bernarda da Silva. Briefing media prior to the National Industry Day ...
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"The manufacturing sector is showing resiliency as new orders for manufactured goods increased by 9.9 percent in September, reversing a 13.1 percent decline in August," said Donald A. Norman, Senior Economist for the Manufacturers Alliance ...
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Chinese investments in Brazil are clearly moving from interests in natural resources, most notably minerals, to strategic assets and industrialized products, China-Brazil Business Council consultant and chief economist, Claudio Frischtak ...
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According to a just concluded survey by apex industry body ASSOCHAM, with economic activity in Indian manufacturing sector is picking up slowly in view of the rising production levels together with upward spiraling domestic and export ...
Tags: ASSOCHAM, Indian manufacturing sector, domestic and export orders