The 2014 edition of the Malaysian International Furniture Fair (MIFF) reported more buyers and record orders at its 20th anniversary edition, which took place from 4-8th March. The show recorded estimated sales of US$892m and a 6% jump in ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Economy
Based on the Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of March total 3,485,000 ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Port Waratah Coal Services' export terminals at Australia's Newcastle port shipped 2.35 million mt of mostly thermal coal to China in March, down 6% from February, the operator said in a report Tuesday. China's offtake represented 26.3% ...
Tags: Coal, thermal coal, coal shipments
The establishment of an Asian regional gas trading hub is still at least five years away, International Gas Union President Jerome Ferrier told a press conference in Sydney Tuesday. LNG importers in Asia are studying plans to establish a ...
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As part of Economic Action Plan 2014, the Government of Canada today tabled new legislation intended to improve the level of protection for workers handling hazardous materials in the workplace. The proposed legislative changes to the ...
Market participants in Latin America are most likely to believe that polymer prices are going to decrease in the coming months, one of the main reasons the market is quite slow in countries such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia, sources said on ...
Tags: Polymer, polymer prices, Olefin
About 7%-8% of the world trade is fake, and the financial value of global counterfeit markets is US$700 billion, Geert de Vries, senior manager of KPMG in The Netherlands reported during the AIPIA i2live webinar, "Active and Intelligent ...
A new report by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “Global M-Commerce 2014: Smartphones and Tablets“, covers the latest trends and developments in mobile shopping. Yücel Yelken, CEO of yStats.com ...
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Counter bids for the April Asian Contract Price for paraxylene are seen to come in at around $1,050-1,100/mt CFR, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. The four PX ACP sellers in Asia -- ExxonMobil, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and ...
Tags: Paraxylene, PTA market, PTA producers
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has introduced a new lineup of flip-chip LED packages and modules offering enhanced design flexibility and a high degree of reliability, for use in LED lighting such as LED bulbs, MR/PAR and ...
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South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor is set to establish its fourth plant in Chongqing, China, with an investment of $926.48m. This move is aimed at increasing the company's global market share in the automotive industry. The ...
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The H&M Group’s sales including VAT increased in local currencies by 12 percent during the first quarter. Converted into SEK, sales excluding VAT amounted to SEK 32,143 m (28,392), an increase of 13 percent. Gross profit amounted ...
Tags: H&M, online markets, H&M stores
China's exports of unwrought magnesium, with a minimum magnesium content of 99.8%, fell 33.7% year on year to 11,844 mt in February, data released Wednesday by the country's General Administration of Customs showed. February exports were ...
Tags: Magnesium Exports, magnesium alloy
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,250,000 net tons (nt) of steel in February, including 2,240,000 nt of finished steel (up 1.4 percent ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, finished steel