The fastener exports of Jiaxing city rose 30.90 percent to USD 1023.46 million with the export volume of 715516 tons, up 9.5 percent in 2011 from a year earlier, a mild slowdown from the last year. On the contrary, the price of ...
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If emerging markets are supposed to provide an economic lift to the world economy these days, India’s plastics sector seems ready to oblige, with its leaders opening the PlastIndia trade show Feb. 1 by predicting they’ll ...
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Caterpillar Inc. Delivered record-breaking 2011 sales and revenues of $60.138 billion, an increase of 41 percent from $42.588 billion in 2010, citing “outstanding execution and stronger global demand, ” as the impetus. Profit in ...
U. S. Firm Extrusion Dies Industries LLC is opening a much larger facility in China this year, as part of a longer-term investment to develop stronger capabilities for Asia-focused product development and manufacturing. EDI, based in ...
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Digitimes Research predicts the growth of high-brightness LEDs in 2012 to reach 13.4% with an output value of US$10.1 billion. However, MOCVD demand will shrink to 200 units in 2012. The combined share of high-brightness LEDs in the Japan, ...
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Columnist Amine Bouchentouf is a partner at Parador Capital LLC, an institutional advisory firm focused on commodities and emerging markets. He is the author of the bestselling Commodities For Dummies, published by Wiley. Amine is also the ...
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Steel demand worldwide is growing slower than forecast, eroding profit at producers including ArcelorMittal and Tata Steel Ltd. (TATA) and forcing investors to revise their 2012 outlook for the $430 billion industry. Global use of the alloy ...
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Business activity in the U. S. Cooled in January as orders and employment slowed, indicating last quarter’s pickup in growth will not be sustained into 2012. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. Said today its business ...
Rapid growing and profitable tile imaging market to benefit from EFI's proven technology Zaventem, Belgium - 11 January 2011 - EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing ...
With hundreds of business owners and corporate managers taking part, the 12th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Taiwan Hand Tool Manufacturers’ Association (THTMA) was held on Oct. 7, 2011, in central Taiwan’s Taichung City. ...
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Following several years of rapid capacity expansion and strong government incentives, a 40% decline in worldwide MOCVD purchases in 2012 will reduce overall LED equipment spending for the first time in over five years, according to SEMI. ...
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China’s slowing manufacturing economy and difficult conditions in export markets in North America and Europe hammered Chinese injection press maker Chen Hsong Holdings Ltd., sending revenues for the first half of its fiscal year down ...
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For the past decade, solar companies and investors have largely focused their energy on transforming the electric power business of developed countries, first in Europe and then the United States. As growth in some of these markets slows, ...
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For the past decade, solar companies and investors have largely focused their energy on transforming the electric power business of developed countries, first in Europe and then the United States. As growth in some of these markets slows, ...
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KraussMaffei AG has announced expansions in China and Slovakia. The Munich-based firm said it will double production capacity at each location and expand performance capabilities at plants in Haiyan, China, and Martin, Slovakia. It expects ...
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