The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and more than 40 other associations are urging the State Department to move ahead toward completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, in ...
Tags: Steel products, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new tool today to help communities prepare for, deal with and recover from floods. The Flood Resilience Checklist offers strategies that communities can consider, such as conserving ...
Tags: Service, EPA, Certification
Project MarineClean was launched in December 2011 in Eastern Europe as a three year project. It is nearing completion. The 1.1 million Euro undertaking aims to decrease marine litter, one of the major ecological threats, in four areas of ...
Malaysia appears to be steadily approaching the goal of taking its place among the world's developed economies by 2020. However, the nation needs to open up and embrace its ethnic minorities together with international residents and ...
Tags: economic policies
New research published today by the British Retail Consortium finds that 80% of MPs believe the current system of business rates is 'not fit for purpose and in need of fundamental reform'. The poll, which also finds that 93% agree that ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The development of stationery industry brings competition to the market,and the change of consumption idea also let consumers tend to brand stationery.To the lots of stationery manufacturers ,firstly they should create a harmonious ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Stationery
ACCC calls to 'reinvigorate' Australia's competition policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has provided a submission to the Harper Review of competition policy, calling for a 'reinvigoration of Australia's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Oxford city council has announced plans to prepare new packaging law in a bid to reduce non-biodegradable litter in the city. The city council has proposed new license conditions, under which street food vendors will be ordered to ...
Gujarat based Sintex Industries Ltd is setting up a big spinning unit which will house 320,000 spindles at a location in Pipavav – Gujarat. “Sintex which till now used to produce high-end structured dyed yarn shirtings at its ...
Tags: Sintex, Spindles Spinning
The New Delhi-based Garment Exporters Association (GEA) has sought five percent increase in duty drawback rate and capping of interest rate at seven percent, in its recommendations sent to the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. ...
Tags: Textiles, Garment Exporters
Global 2014/15 cotton mill use is forecast at 112.3 million bales, 2 percent above the previous season. Mill use in China is expected to rebound in 2014/15 to 37.0 million bales—up from an estimated 35.5 million bales this season and ...
Tags: Cotton, World cotton trade
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projections for 2014/15 indicate that world cotton stocks are expected to rise for the fifth consecutive season. Global ending stocks are now projected at a record 102.7 million bales for ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Stocks
A new publication from Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “China B2C E-Commerce Market 2014“, reports that China is ranked as the world’s top market in B2C E-Commerce potential. The world’s ...
Tags: E-Commerce Market, B2C Market
Setting an EU goal to improve energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 would help cut natural gas use by 115 billion cubic meters/year and gas imports by 90 Bcm/year by 2030, compared with business as usual, according to draft European Commission ...
Tags: Gas Use, EU legislation
Bearish factors weighing on the Chinese market were offsetting any positive sentiment on Indian demand for Indonesian thermal coal, sources said Thursday. A Singapore-based source for a major producer said he did not share in the bullish ...
Tags: Chinese market, thermal coal