Westlake Chemical Corporation reported record quarterly net income of $170.3 million, or $2.54 per diluted share, on net sales of $1,004.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. This represents an increase in net income of $83.3 ...
Tags: Ethane Prices, Textile
In October this year, Spain's total motor vehicle output amounted to 210,971 units, rising by 17 percent year on year, according to the data reported by the Spanish Automobile and Truck Manufacturers' Association (ANFAC). The association ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Transportation
The spot price for South African charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed at 83-84 cents/pound CIF China Friday, down from 83-85 cents/lb CIF China assessed the previous week, amid slow demand. The spot price of Indian-origin high carbon ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
German auto giants Volkswagen AG, BMW and Daimler see China's future as being electric - encouraged by generous government subsidies - but that bet puts them at odds with some of their Asian rivals. While the Europeans were heralding the ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
A new consistent planning zone for Victoria’s major ports has been approved, in a move that is aimed at securing the future growth of the freight sector and its contribution to the state’s economy. Planning Minister Matthew Guy ...
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US truck tonnage fell 2.8% month-over-month in October, but remained stronger than in the same month last year. The American Trucking Associations’ for-hire truck tonnage index grew 0.5% in September (revised down from the 1.4% ...
Fourth Quarter Consolidated Operating Results Net sales for the fourth quarter were $291.7 million and increased $44.5 million, or 18.0%, compared to the prior year. Acquisitions, net of $0.3 million of intersegment eliminations, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, today announced that Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has presented RFMD with ...
Tags: RFMD, Huawei Supplier
Pasinex Resources Limited (CNSX: PSE) (FSE: PNX) is pleased to announce that is has initiated a ground magnetics survey of the entire Golcuk licence. Figure 1 below shows the extent of the survey already completed, together with the ...
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US rail transportation of petroleum and petroleum products for the week ended November 16 totaled 15,523 cars, up 21.6% from the year-ago week, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. Petroleum and petroleum product shipments ...
Tags: petroleum, petroleum products
With the robust growth in the women's innerwear line, Page Industries, the franchisee for Jockey International, continues to outperform peers in current fiscal. The Bangalore-based company had made a strategic move in 2009 by introducing a ...
Campbell Soup Company today reported its results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Denise Morrison, Campbell's President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "I'm disappointed in Campbell's first-quarter performance. We are confident in ...
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Predictions for "Cyber Monday" are wide of the mark for clothing retailers–which will actually see their busiest shopping day a few days later on Thursday December 5th, according to analysis by virtual fitting room provider Fits.me. ...
Tags: Fits.Me, 'Big Day', Clothing Retailers
A new approach is needed in the relationship between scrap dealers and steel mills - this in short is the solution presented by Romano Pezzotti, president of Assofermet Scrap division, and Cesare Pasini, vice president of Feralpi Group, ...
Tags: Assofermet, SteelOrbis, approach, Italian, steel, sector
During the afternoon session of the 1st Assofermet Day & SteelOrbis Conference, held on Friday, November 15 in Brescia in northern Italy, Burak Odaba, director of SteelOrbis, provided a snapshot of the current state of the Turkish steel ...
Tags: assofermet, SteelOrbis, Turkey, scrap, importer