Residential flooring manufacturers in the U. S. Increased their lumber purchases, but several were not receiving as much as they wanted. Unfinished oak strip flooring prices have trended steadily higher since early spring, which some credit ...
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IMPORTS of sawn timber have grown 30% in the past two years, creating a temporary threat to Australia's domestic sawn timber industry, research by industry analysis firm BIS Shrapnel revealed on Wednesday. The research showed that while ...
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China's General Administration of Customs released half-year data on July 10, noting a trend of labor-intensive, manufactured products taking a smaller share of the nation's total exports. However, specific stats on plastics exports ...
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Construction employment increased in just half the states plus the District of Columbia from June 2011 to June 2012, but declined in a slim majority of states in the past month, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the ...
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Have you always wanted professional standard power tools but thought they were inaccessible? Well, hand tools expert Stanley, already world renowned for making the professional tradesman work more efficiently, is using its years of ...
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The Abu Dhabi market measure ADXGI slipped by a quarter percentage point to 2, 504.76 points. Ras al-Khaima-based Union Cement Co. Or UCC jumped 9.41% to hit Dhs093. Earlier in the day, UCC said its net profit attributable to owners of the ...
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Turnover of the Swiss plastics industry declined by 1.8% to CHF 15.5bn (€12.9bn) in 2011, alongside a 1.6% reduction in the number of employees in the industry to 34,530, it was announced on 28 June by the industry’s trade ...
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Investment activity in the Russian sawmill industry has increased significantly since last year, after prior years had mainly seen isolated new and expansion investments. Production capacity in the Russian sawmill industry is expected to ...
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According to Yengst Associates and as indicated in the table below, growth in sales for tractors was about 2 percent in 2011 and it is expected to gain another 2 percent in 2012, with total tractor sales reaching just under 200,000 units ...
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The US abrasives manufacturing industry includes about 300 companies with combined annual revenue of about $4 billion. Major companies include 3M and and the US divisions of several international companies. The industry is highly ...
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Colfax Fluid Handling will present new enhanced product Allmind (pat. Pending). Colfax's Allmind pump upgrade reduces total cost of ownership through diagnostic capability and variable speed drive control. Despite the best intentions of ...
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Publicly listed cement producer PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa will begin a massive expansion in the second half of the year to take the advantage of the country s growing cement demand. We will spend a huge amount of money in the second ...
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Russian automotive production increased 40% in terms of volume in 2011 to nearly two million units, according to HaloPolymer, a producer of fluorinated polymers based in the country. The bulk of production (87.4%) was passenger cars, whose ...
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For some reason, investors seem to be wary of stocks. It may be because bonds have beaten the stuffing out of stocks for the past 20 years. It may be the stream of scandals plaguing Wall Street. Or it may be that they are Facebook ...
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Garden equipment maker Husqvarna spied uncertainty ahead in key markets on both sides of the Atlantic as growth in the U.S. economy falters and Europe remains mired in its debt crisis. Second-quarter profit for the world's biggest maker of ...
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