According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q2 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), first estimates for construction sector activity in the first quarter of this year signal a ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Indian refining and petrochemical giant Reliance Industries Ltd. Friday reported a 7.9% year-on-year decline in its gross refining margin for the January-March quarter, to $9.30/barrel. However, the company showed an increase of 22.3% ...
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Eric Chuo looks to promising 2014 for Taiwan's machine tool industry. (Photo courtesy of Hiwin) Hiwin Technologies Corp. has announced?Q1 consolidated revenue of?NT$3.01 billion (US$100.4 million), increasing 26.9% from NT$2.37 billion ...
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Global packaging firm Sonoco has announced plans to invest about $20m in the establishment of a composite can production plant for snacks packaging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company will also add three additional high-speed composite ...
Spidey comes with six hand positions, four long web effects, two swinging web effects and two shooting web effects. Hot Toys has revealed its new Amazing Spider-Man 2 figure. Set to land in Q3 2014, the 1/6 scale figure of Spidey comes ...
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Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. reported revenues rose 13 percent in its third quarter ended Feb. 28, to $62.2 million. Revenues were up 16 percent on a currency-neutral basis. On an adjusted basis, the EBITDA loss was trimmed to $3.2 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the third quarter and the first nine months ended March 31, 2014, lifting its iron ore production guidance for the financial year 2013-14 by five million mt to 217 ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that its iron ore shipments in the third quarter ending March 31 of the financial year 2013-14 totaled 31.5 million mt, increasing by 56 percent and indicating a rise of 13 ...
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KPS Capital Partners, through its newly formed subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Ardagh to acquire Anchor Glass Container and its affiliates. KPS partner Jay Bernstein said Anchor Glass is positioned well to supply the expanding ...
Obducat AB of Lund, Sweden, a developer and supplier of technologies, products and processes based on proprietary nanoimprint lithography (NIL), has launched the second-generation SINDRE system which, due to improved performance, will be ...
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Brazil's JBS plans to raise BRL3bn ($1.36bn) through initial public offering (IPO) of its poultry and processed food division. The company has appointed five investment banks, including Banco Itaú BBA, Banco Santander, BTG Pactual ...
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Protective packaging materials manufacturer Pregis has announced plans to install new custom-built converting line at its manufacturing plant located at Plymouth in Indiana, US. The new equipment is said to be deployed to manufacture ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
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Canadian food processing and packaging company SunOpta is set to add a third processor at its Modesto facility in California to expand its aseptic processing and packaging operations. The company expects to install the processor during ...
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The top natural gas analyst at Jefferies raised his 2014 gas price forecast 8% Thursday, citing a much higher than anticipated winter price in the first quarter and the end of coal's ability to keep gas prices range-bound. "The era of too ...
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