Analyst: existing solar tech to miss 'SunShot' goal 25 Sep 2013 Lux Research says that large corporations must partner with academia to innovate. PV adoption roadmap through 2030 The US Department of Energy's ambitious "SunShot" ...
China imported 755,939 mt of iron ore from India in August, up 49% from 506,322 mt in July, according to data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs. The increase comes on the back of Indian government talks of a ...
According to data released by Korea Iron and Steel Association (KOSA), the country' exports of carbon hot rolled coils (HRC) totaled 273,000 tons in August, slumping by 40% year on year and touching the lowest level of this year. In the ...
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According to data released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (Kosa), Korea’s imports of heavy plates totaled 200,200 tons in July, soaring by 33% from a month ago. However, the country’s import of heavy plates slumped by 43% ...
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The Russian steelmaker NLMK announced its financial result for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. NLMK posted a net profit of US$34 million for the second quarter, falling by 87.8% year on year. Its sales revenues totaled ...
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Ford Motor Company chief operating officer Mark Fields admits next year’s launch of the facelifted Ford Falcon will be unprecedented. This is because the updated Falcon will be launched from death row. CarAdvice asked Fields ...
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According to data released by Brazil’s secretary of foreign trade Secex, Brazil’s exports of wire rods totaled 10,441 tons in July, slumping by 58% from a month ago. Among them, the shipments made to the US slumped by 59% ...
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Greggs has shelved plans to build a £30M frozen food factory, which had previously been hailed as key to expanding its business with supermarkets, as it targets a food to go strategy. Roger Whiteside, boss of the high street bakery ...
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Windows’ share of the tablet market grew slightly in the second quarter, as shipments also ticked up in the face of a slow-down by tablets overall, researcher IDC said today. But the Redmond, Washington, company’s innovative ...
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It’s reported that the Brazilian mining giant Vale announced that its sales revenues totaled US$1.128 billion in the second quarter of this year, up by 0.7% from a quarter ago but falling by 11.4% year on year. Moreover, the mining ...
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Raw cotton exports from Pakistan slumped 63.94 percent in quantity terms and 66.71 percent in value-terms during last fiscal, according to data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the fiscal year that ended on June 30, ...
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Pakistan Cement export posted an increase of some 12 percent, month-on-month, during the first month of current fiscal year 2013-14. According to July 2013 figures released by All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA), ...
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Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. posted net income of 13 billion yen on net sales of 269.7 billion yen for the first half of its fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. Operating income was 19.1 billion yen, down 4.2% compared to the year-ago period. ...
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Toyota Australia has announced a $123 million investment in its Victorian manufacturing operations, shoring up its presence on the local automotive scene until at least 2018. The funding will support the production of a “major ...
The British floor covering distributor Headlam expects a 10% drop in net profits vis à vis the comparative period last year for the first half of this year. In the first six months of 2012 the group achieved period profit of ...
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