Nicaragua ranked among the 11th largest apparel supplying countries to the United States in terms of volume and the 12th largest in value in 2012, thus becoming an important player in the global textile and apparel industry, according to ...
The European ethanol physical price curve moved into contango this week as persisting high inventory in April collided with views that May could bring improved demand, sources said this week. A standard 1,000 mt fuel ethanol barge for ...
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The global LED light bulb pricing has been falling in 2013 because some large-size industry leading brands have introduced low-price products. Market observers believe demand in the residential LED lighting market is expected to grow and ...
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Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined. The company reported first-quarter sales of a!5.85 billion (US$7.63 ...
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Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/19/2013 12:03:55 PM Even as the economy improves, 94 percent of Americans indicate they will remain cautious and keep their spending for food, beverage and household ...
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GFK GeoMarketing has released a study on European retail in 2013. The data was compiled and evaluated on behalf of the European Shopping Center Trust (ESCT). Published as an English-language compendium, the study provides a Europe-wide ...
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A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 113 people dead and more than 2,600 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across ...
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Type Description Friction Stiffness† Speed Life Notes Plain bearing Rubbing surfaces, usually with lubricant; some bearings use pumped lubrication and behave similarly to fluid ...
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The Chinese textile industry is facing several pressures and it needs to crack these pressures through various efforts, Sun Huaibin, director of the China Textile Economy Research Centre, has said. Speaking at the 2013 China Cotton ...
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The BBC has launched the BBC Technology Apprenticeship, working with UK universities and major broadcasters, "to address a critical skills shortage in the broadcast industry and help build the next generation of broadcast engineers", said ...
Sigma is taking aim at the enthusiast market with its first GPS-equipped bike computer that also uses the widely adopted ANT+ protocol to read data from external sensors and power meters. It's also offering two other computers that pack ...
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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 ...
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The Phoenix Companies, a US-based boutique life insurance and annuity company, has introduced a single premium fixed indexed annuity offered with a Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit (GLWB) rider. Available through independent ...
Snaptiva unveiled the first-of-its-kind mobile style assistant making shopping for fashion and home design items a snap. Coordinating an outfit or decorating a room has never been easier. With Snaptiva, you can search millions of products ...
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Cavendish Kinetics has an answer to the the widening gap between actual mobile data rates and theoretically achievable data rates. GSM in the 90s achieved actual data rates close to the theoretical maxiimum but, ever since, the gap ...