Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) has started construction of a new West Coast regional facility in Long Beach, California. The new location serves as the future home of MBUSA's Vehicle Preparation Center, Western Region and Learning & ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Car, Vehicle, SUV
Import volume at major U.S. container ports is expected to increase 7.5 percent in June as retailers bring unusually high quantities of merchandise into the country early to avoid any potential disruptions after the labor contract with West ...
Tags: Apparel
The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman today announced a $600,000 grant to the City of South Bend and a $600,000 grant to the City of Plymouth to help redevelop contaminated brownfield sites. Hedman was ...
Tags: EPA, certification
Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE:BFA, BFB) reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2014. For the full year, reported net sales increased 4% to $3,946 million (+6% on an underlying basis2), reported ...
Tags: Brown-Forman, net sales
Members of the Argentinian Biofuels Association, or CARBIO, exported 48,960 mt of biodiesel in April, a 42.4% month-on-month fall and a drop of 42.1% compared with a year earlier, according to data from the industry body Wednesday. CARBIO ...
Tags: Biodiesel Exports, tax exemption
Global refined cobalt supply totaled 85,904 mt in 2013, up around 11% from 77,189 mt in 2012, the Cobalt Development Institute said Wednesday in the latest edition of its cobalt news publication. The report, based on the main sources ...
Tags: Refined Cobalt, Chinese production
Delta Apparel, Inc. plans to consolidate fabric production for basic, blank tee shirts to its Ceiba Textiles facility in Honduras. The consolidation transfers the production of some fabric for basic tees currently manufactured at the ...
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NGC announced the release and immediate availability of NGC ERP Xpress, a cloud-based version of NGC’s industry-leading fashion ERP solution. NGC ERP Xpress provides the robust features of NGC’s enterprise application in a ...
In May this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 46.4 percent, down by 6.2 percentage points as compared to April, falling below 50 percent again, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in May of the current year, up 0.4 percentage points compared to April and constituting the third consecutive month-on-month increase, according to ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI
The U.S. economy took a beating from an especially harsh winter during the January-March quarter, skidding into reverse for the first time in three years. But spring has arrived and along with it, signs that the chill was just a temporary ...
The arrival of cotton in Indian markets has increased by 13.72 percent year-on-year to 36.3 million running bales of 155-157 kg each by May 31, 2014, according to the latest monthly analysis of cotton market released by Arun Kumar & ...
Tags: Cotton, Indian markets
InStyle Software, Inc. releases new version 4.6 of InStyle Apparel ERP including improved integration with Excel, improved integration with QuickBooks, improved email alerts and improved integration with ecommerce. Additional features ...
Tags: InStyle, Apparel ERP Software
NetSuite Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, announced its participation as a diamond sponsor at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition 2014, being held ...
Tags: NetSuite, commerce platform