India-based textile conglomerate SEL Manufacturing Company has clocked a remarkable 73.92 per cent growth in its consolidated net profit at Rs 54.93 crore for the six month ended September 30, 2013, driven by sustained operational ...
Pioneer Energy Services (NYSE: PES) today announced it has renewed its drilling contracts with Ecopetrol for all eight of its drilling rigs in Colombia effective January 1, 2014. Pioneer recently operated six rigs for Ecopetrol under ...
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Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of healthcare products and services to office-based dental, animal health and medical practitioners, today announced the signing of an agreement that will further strengthen ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Prices Mar. corn closed at $4.23 and 1/2, up 3 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.89 and 1/4, up 2 and 1/4 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $424.50, up 70 cents Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.34, ...
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Taiwan’s China Steel Corp. (CSC)'s said the demand for AP plate is increasing. Currently, local distributors' re-selling price for AP plates was NT$17,800~18,000/ton, but the price has jumped to over NT$18,000/ton and it helps ...
The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
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Solarion AG of Leipzig, Germany has begun the series production of its flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, the first of which is a flexible solar foil directly laminated onto 0.7mm rolled ...
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Glass Packaging Market Report - Forecasts to 2019" report to their offering. Glass packaging has various advantages such as chemical stability, sterility and reusability. ...
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As the EU begins to impose punitive tariffs on Friday on a number of Chinese solar exports, the world's largest solar market, which once fueled China's wild solar expansion, is now behind the industry's slim-down. The dust has finally ...
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The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
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The 2014 outlook for thermal, renewable and oil and gas projects is stable, according to a Fitch Ratings report. 'Increasingly, natural gas is driving the North American energy sector. As gas is the current fuel on the margin and ...
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Eastman Chemical Company announced a global price increase for automotive grade polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers effective January 1, 2014 or as contracts allow. Price increase announcements for Saflex automotive PVB grades on a square ...
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Liberty Mutual Insurance, an American global insurer, is set to acquire Mexican surety company Primero Fianzas from private investor group Grupo Valores Operativos Monterrey. Terms of the deal, which is subject to the receipt of ...
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Polarn O. Pyret AB acquires 100 percent of the shares in WAM AS in Norway. WAM AS, which is the master franchisee of Polarn O. Pyret in Noway, operates 24 physical stores as well as an e-commerce store and is expected to generate net sales ...
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Advances in materials science and nanotechnology have created several new functionalities in coatings, going beyond their original basic protective and decorative attributes. However, mismatched perceptions among coating developers and ...
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