In March this year, production in the Mexican car and light vehicle industry fell 3.1 percent compared to the previous month and was down 11.2 percent from March 2012, amounting to 238,519 units, according to the the Mexican Association of ...
Tags: Light Vehicle, Car
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not oppose the proposed acquisition by Virgin Australia Holdings Limited of 60% of Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd. Virgin Australia is the second ...
Tags: Virgin Australia, Tiger Takeover
Pursuant to extension of its well-known brands, Gitanjali Group, an Indian retailer of branded jewellery, which has recently entered into the apparel space, intends to set up around 200-300 sales points pan India by end of this year. ...
Tags: Gitanjali Group, Apparel, Apparel Expansion
In the week from April 15 to April 21, the scrap indexes moved sideways on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to increase following three weeks of downward movement. While the Black Sea HRC Export ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Malaysian government has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding stranded wire, rope and cables imported from China. The investigation was started upon the complaint filed by the Malaysia-based ...
Tags: Malaysia, Steel Products
The cotton business was slightly revived on the domestic market in comparison to the previous week. Quotations for medium staple cotton tended lighter, but rose for extra-long staple cotton. Strong daily price volatility at the ICE as ...
Tags: German Market, German, cotton business
According to the latest data released by the Brazilian Institute of Non-ferrous Metals (ICZ), the country's nickel production amounted to 3,547 mt in March this year, falling 27.1 percent compared to February and down 45.5 percent compared ...
Tags: Nickel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Arbitrage shipments of styrene monomer from the US and Europe are set to arrive in China in late May and June, likely widening the backwardation between the two months in the Asian SM market, trade sources said Thursday. Around ...
Tags: SM Arbitrage Cargoes, Chemicals
ThyssenKrupp, a German multinational conglomerate corporation has planned to cooperate with Ansteel, who is the second largest steel maker in China to construct a new hot dip galvanized production line for expansion. This joint venture ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
It is reported that the oil country tubular goods (OCTG) market in the US expects to remain competitive due to weak demand for domestic market at this moment. Some of participants said that the market was quiet and it's difficult to make ...
Tags: OCTG, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China-based makers' solar product shipments to Europe have been falling due to the ongoing trade dispute, but their shipments to the US, Japan and the domestic market have been rising. Due to orders related to China's Golden Sun ...
Tags: solar industry, Lighting
BMW appears set to launch a new Chinese sub-brand, according to several reports. Following the partnership between BMW and Chinese car maker Brilliance that formed in 2003, the German manufacturer looks likely to launch a new ...
Tags: BMW, Zinoro Sub-Brand
Coloured gemstones are now increasingly finding place in jewellery sets of the young and fashion conscious Indian consumers. Gone are those days a few years back when people in India used to wear coloured gemstone jewellery with ...
Tags: Gemstone, Gemstone Industry, Crafts
It's reported that Korean steelmaker Dongbu Steel's sales volumes of cold rolled steel products totaled 196,000 tons in March, rising by 17.2% from a month ago. Among them, 79,000 tons were made to domestic market, increasing by 8.3%; ...
Tags: CR Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Russia's second largest coking coal producer Raspadskaya has stated that in the first quarter of the current year its sales of coal concentrate increased by 49 percent year on year to 1.4 million mt, while its sales of run-of-mine coal ...