China's iron ore import prices are likely to come under pressure in March, as the expected increase in domestic steel output is unlikely to offset the impact of persistent iron ore oversupply in China, the China Iron & Steel Association ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Steel Demand
Shipments of new personal computers, most of them equipped with Microsoft Windows, will face greater declines in 2014 than earlier anticipated, IDC said Tuesday. IDC said that PC shipments will drop by 6% from 2013 to approximately 296 ...
Tags: PC Shipments, Computer Products
Lextar Electronics has reported it consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2013 reached NT$3.32 billion (US$109.55 million). The company's consolidated gross margin was 10.1%, while net profit for the fourth quarter was NT$33 ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Electronics, LED, LED Lighting
German polyester fibre specialist Trevira GmbH, Bobingen, has voiced its satisfaction with the past fiscal year in view of annual sales totalling about EUR 250 million (2012: EUR 232 million). Changes in the product mix and a positive ...
Tags: polyester fibre, Textile
The exports of garments and textiles from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam surged 44.9 percent year-on-year in February 2014 to reach US$ 1.3 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported. In the first two months of the ...
Tags: Garment, Textile Exports, Apparel
Collaboration between retailers, brands, their manufacturing partners and suppliers is starting to drive a recovery in the UK’s garment making sector. This was the optimistic and overwhelming conclusion of speakers at the recent ASBCI ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Textile
The Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has signed an agreement for extending 161 billion dong (US$ 7.8 million) to Thien An Thinh Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company for setting up a new textile ...
Tags: Textile Plant, Textile
National Retail Federation President and CEO Matthew Shay and NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz issued a response to the organization's February jobs report. "While there are signs of modest momentum in the economy, now is not the time ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Retail Industry
Replacement activity for older commercial trucks will drive growth in the work truck industry, and the sector will outpace the overall economy thanks to uneven business and consumer confidence, trade industry executives said here. ...
Tags: Transportation
Free-standing organ recovery centers could markedly improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with deceased organ donation, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation. The study's findings have ...
Tags: Organ Recovery, organ donation, Reduce Costs
In Stand #2203 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (11-13 March), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, Electronics
Anta Sports Products Ltd. reported revenues declined 4.5 percent in its year ended Dec. 31, to 7.281 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) compared with 7.622 billion yuan in 2012. Net profit slid 3.2 percent in the same period to 1.314 billion ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Anta Sports
Brazil-based miner Vale has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting a net loss of $6.45 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.61 billion in the same quarter of the previous year, as a ...
France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, while also stating that for 2014 it expects a stable to moderate increase in sales and EBITDA. According to ...
Tags: Mineral, Vallourec's sales
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama Wednesday to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of ...
Tags: Transportation Funding, Mineral