Historically there has been a lot of hype around this topic, but there is a heightened awareness in recent years, which has drawn more attention to this subject now more than ever. This is mostly due to on-shoring by major manufacturers, ...
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Trelleborg announces interim report for second quarter from April to June 2014. Second quarter Net sales for the second quarter of 2014 increased by 2 percent (0) and totaled SEK 5,725 M (5,628). Organic sales declined by 1 percent ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q3 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2014 total EU steel exports decreased by 2.6 percent year on year. ...
Tags: steel, export, decrease, Metallurgy, Mineral
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the current year, indicating that stainless steel demand continued to recover and base prices increased moderately in both Europe ...
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As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene.Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is ...
The Thailand Textile Institute (TTI) and the Department of Industrial Promotion (DIP) have joined hands to develop textile production under One Tambon (sub-district) One Product (OTOP) program. As per the understanding, both TTI and ...
Tags: DIP, TTI, Textile, Apparel, Accessories
The Stockmann Group's revenue was down 7.7 per cent on the previous year and amounted to EUR 151.2 million in June 2014. The decline was partly due to weak currency exchange rates of the Russian rouble, Swedish krona and Norwegian ...
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Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy storage by using a special grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of ...
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Every year in the month August NITRA offers a bouquet of intensive manpower training programs on distance learning mode to help the aspiring and existing textile & garment industry professionals. The programs enable them to update ...
OLEDs from Osram OLED panels will be on a par with LEDs in terms of performance by next year, according to a market report. The report by UBI, a South Korean research company, said the OLED lighting market will still be very small in ...
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Platts Australian alumina assessment closed the week at $310.50/mt FOB, decreasing $1.50/mt from Thursday, weighed by sluggish demand, the higher cost of credit in China, and concerns relating to counter-party risk. The assessment was down ...
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The government of Pakistan has announced some new tax measures in its federal budget 2014-15, introducing 10 percent customs duty on flat rolled silicon and alloy steel imports to bring them to a par with flat rolled products of non- alloy ...
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Clean Clothes Campaign has released a new report that uncovers the truth behind high-end fashion chains and the Eastern European and Turkish garment workers that make their clothes. "Stitched Up – Poverty wages for garment workers in ...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd says that it has improved the light quality of its LED packages and modules based on a 90 CRI (color rendering index) for use in advanced lighting applications. The firm is showcasing the LED ...
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The much awaited proposed FDA ecig regulation has already been announced. It was Thursday morning, April 24th, when the FDA has posted these policies on the Federal Register. These first ever federal regulations on ecigarettes will ban ...
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