U.S. specialty jewelry store sales fell 5.4 percent year on year to $2.72 billion in February, according to government calculations. The sales decline was much more severe than preliminary totals for jewelry and watch sales across all ...
Tags: specialty jewelry, watch sales
Sika achieved "highly dynamic growth" in the first quarter of 2015, thereby making a strong start to the year despite the very high sales growth in the reference period (2014: 23.3%). At constant exchange rates, sales rose by 5.1% to CHF ...
The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip
A recent study by ASSOCHAM-Deloitte has found that e-commerce encompassing an increasing range of economic activities such as retail, travel, tourism, food and beverages, has emerged as India’s new sunrise industry and is set to notch ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Sun-Rise Industry, home markets
China is quickly finding itself in uncharted retail territory, with a large availability of new shopping malls coinciding with the fast adoption of e-commerce by its rapidly-expanding consumer class, says JLL, a professional services and ...
Brazilian dairy group Quatá Alimentos has invested in six filling machines from SIG Combibloc to expand its production capacity. SIG and Quatá have been working together since 2012 when two SIG Combibloc filling machines, ...
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld the complicated formula that Iowa uses to tax natural gas consumption, rejecting a legal challenge brought by the state's powerful ethanol industry. The owners of several ethanol plants argue the ...
New Zealands tightens marketing restrictions for infant formula The New Zealand government’s Commerce Commission has authorised the Infant Nutrition Council’s (INC) new Code of Practice incorporating restrictions on ...
Registration is now open for the longest-running polyurethanes conference in North America. The 2015 Polyurethanes Technical Conference, hosted by the Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council, brings ...
Tags: Industrial Coatings, Construction Chemicals, Construction
Sappi Speciality Papers has developed atelier, a multi-ply board produced on a single-wire board machine for the packaging industry. atelier is a new hybrid folding box board product that has been made available in weights from 220 gsm to ...
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Evonik has launched a new dispersing agent for coil coatings. TEGO Dispers 675 is the ideal option for solventborne direct grind colored coatings which meet the high quality requirements in coil coatings, according to the company. The ...
Tags: Color, Coil Coatings, TEGO Dispers 675
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will expand annual production capacity for solar-grade crystalline silicon ingots and wafers from 900MWp and 850MWp respectively in 2014 to 1.1GWp and 1GWp respectively in 2015, the company said at an ...
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Event will take place on Sunday, May 31st at The Grove. The first International Toy Industry Open Golf Championship will take place on Sunday, May 31st at The Grove. The event has been organised by Vivid's senior vice president ...
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Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been impacted by the US imposing an average 19.5% anti-dumping tariffs rate. But rooftop PV systems, especially those built with high-efficiency cells, will provide market ...
Tags: PV, solar cell, Lighting
CoreValve becomes first transcatheter heart valve approved for valve-in-valve procedures. Chris Newmarker Rendering of the CoreValve right after its transcatheter deployment. (Image courtesy of Medtronic) FDA has cleared the way for ...
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