In mid-December, the EU Commission notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it intends to restrict four additional substances under the RoHS2 directive. The update will bring the number of hazardous substances listed in Annex II of ...
Brazilian cotton output might again reduce in the 2014/15 crop, but would still be close to the average registered over the last 11 seasons, says the latest fortnightly report of CEPEA. “In worldwide terms, a supply decrease is ...
Tags: remunerative prices, export costs, exchange rate ratio, Textile
When auto companies showed up in Las Vegas this month for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a traditional parade ground for what's new in information technology, they certainly didn't seem like misfits. In 2014, output of ...
Tags: Automobiles, CES 2015, Electric vehicles
New Era Cap announced that Pete Augustine, President New Era Cap, Inc. has decided to leave the company. After nearly 25 years of service with the privately held headwear company, Augustine is leaving the company by mutual agreement as ...
Nearly six in 10 younger skiers and snowboarders, or 59 percent, find on-site equipment rentals extremely important on a ski/snowboard vacation, compared to 42 percent of mature travelers, according to a customer survey by Wyndham Vacation ...
Tags: skiers, snowboarders, Sporting Goods
NPD figures show that brand has held onto its number two position in Total Games. Vivid's Drumond Park division is celebrating a solid performance in 2014. NPD figures (by value) show the brand to have held onto its number two position ...
Tags: Family Games, Toys
For fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to end-November 2014), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $2.9m, down 15% on $3.4m a year ago but up 29% on $2.3m last quarter, due to both design wins in ...
Tags: LED components, LED chip, Electrical
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, says that at the end of December it received an order for an MBE412 system (for delivery in 2015) from ...
Tags: Electronics Equipment Maker, MBE412 system, Electrical
Yingli Green Energy has announced that it completed grid connection for a 10 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in China's Hebei Province in late December 2014. The solar power plant is located in Fuping, a mountainous region in western ...
Tags: Solar Power Plant, Lights
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry dropped 5.1 percent year on year to 161.75 points in December, which was about 4 points lower than November's reading and the lowest since July 2010. The average jewelry CPI for 2014 slipped 4 ...
Bord Bia today launched its Export Performance and Prospects Report which reflects a 4% increase in exports for 2014 to reach a record high of almost €10.5bn. Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia outlined the background to the ...
Tags: milk, drink industry, Agriculture
China this week issued the first round of oil product export quotas for 2015, with volumes totaling 9.75 million mt, industry sources said Wednesday, January 14. This is significantly more than the roughly 8 million mt of quotas that were ...
Tags: Oil Export, Crude Oil
Tomy's line for Inside Out will include poseable character figures boasting light up features. The Walt Disney Company has detailed Tomy's new toy lines for Disney Pixar’s Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur. Tomy's line for Inside ...
Tags: Toy Lines, Walt Disney Company, Toys
The retailer champions Black Friday as the starting gun for Christmas shopping. Shop Direct has seen a four per cent rise in total group sales over the Christmas trading period. Black Friday proved to be the busiest trading day on ...
Tags: Christmas shopping, trading day, Toys
Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 14, 2015 As the U.S. dollar strengthens amid global economic uncertainty, travelers aren’t the only ones affected. Major medtech companies including St. Jude Medical and ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health