According to World Nonwovens, a new study from The Freedonia Group, global sales of nonwoven fabrics will increase 6.9% annually to 9.3 million metric tons in 2015. The personal hygiene market will continue to account for the single largest ...
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Indonesia s cement association (ASI) has reported that the country’s cement sales grew 17% in 2011, with total domestic sales reaching 47.9 million t. The association’s Chairman, Urip Trimuryono, attributed the result to ...
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Sri Lankan cement producer Tokyo Cement, the largest of only two local cement manufacturers, will continue its revenue growth over the short to medium term, according to ratings agency RAM. This is a result of a positive oulook for the ...
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Wood products demand is far more sensitive to the economy than demand for almost any other product. The outlook for the next two years is moderately positive, at least compared to the weak domestic markets we’ve seen since the ...
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This report is based on information provided by industry experts and importers. No exact figures are available on the size of the Uruguayan hardware market. However, all numbers listed in tables have been extracted from local databases used ...
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"The VDMA assesses the German production volume in production and pharmaceutical packaging machinery to around one and a half billion Euros", explained Dr. Peter Golz, Deputy Managing Director of the Food Processing and Packaging Machinery ...
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Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co. Said slower expansion in China's demand for cranes and excavators will carry on next year because of waning economic growth and cutbacks in railway building. "Demand for construction ...
Cement prices nationwide were down for the third consecutive week last week, dragged down by price declines in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces, falling 1.12 percent from the previous week, reports Shanghai Securities News, citing the China ...
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Germany’s economy is expanding “noticeably slower” in the final quarter as demand for exports, the mainspring for growth, tapers off in the euro region and globally, the Finance Ministry said. After notching up growth of ...
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Growth in Southeast Asian economies including Malaysia and Thailand may have peaked last quarter as the European debt crisis and Thai floods hurt the outlook for exports, adding pressure on policy makers to cut interest rates. ...
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Plexus Cotton Limited reports that NY futures ended the week mixed, as December managed to close unchanged at 99.50 cents, while March dropped 240 points to close at 96.48 cents. For most of the week the market tried to work its way higher ...
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2010, the "Eleventh Five Plan" implemented last year, is also Machine tool Tool Development of the industry a critical year, a year full of hope. Machine tool enterprises should unite efforts to improve the way of change of the economic ...
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Scientific Certification Systems has certified the Patneshwari Agricultural Co-Operative Limited under the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) program, making it the first timber-producing forest in India to earn FSC ...
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Kenya is taking its climate change response to the streets. In a move aimed at boosting environmental sustainability while reducing costs and making residents safer, Nairobi city council has begun installing solar-powered street lighting. ...
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Kenya is taking its climate change response to the streets. In a move aimed at boosting environmental sustainability while reducing costs and making residents safer, Nairobi city council has begun installing solar-powered street lighting. ...
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