Operations Director, Senior Architectural Systems: Since the 1st July 2013 CE Marking has become mandatory in the UK for all construction products, but what does this mean for the specifier? Mark Wadsworth, Operations Director of ...
Tags: CE Marking, Specifier
The World Apparel Fibre Consumption Survey recently completed by the Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (EST/FAO) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) ...
Tags: Apparel Fibre, Textile
In June this year, global pig iron production amounted to 96.06 million metric tons, decreasing by 4.1 percent compared to May and up 3.62 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for ...
According to report of the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (Eurofer), it forecasted that the EU’s real steel consumption would fall by 4.5% in 2013. In the first quarter of this year, the EU’s real ...
Tags: Real Steel Consumption, Mineral
According to statistics released by the Italian steel producers association (Federacciai), Italy’s exports of steel products from the non-EU countries totaled 2.203 million tons in the first five months of this year, decreasing by 9% ...
Tags: Exports of Steel, Mineral
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), EU steel imports remained at a high level in the second quarter of the current year, after ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2013 European Union (EU) steel exports increased by 11 percent year ...
Tags: Steel Exports, EUROFER
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh to 11 non-traditional markets soared by 28.75 percent year-on-year during the just concluded financial year, according to the data from the Export Promotion Bureau. Bangladesh’s ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
In order to adapt EU payments market to the opportunities of the single market and to support the growth of the EU economy, the European Commission adopted today a package including: • A new Payment Services Directive ("PSD2") and ...
In July 2013 economic expectations for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) remain almost unchanged. The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator for the CEE region increases slightly by 1.7 points to a level of 25.7 ...
Tags: economy
The first estimate for the euro area (EA17) trade in goods balance with the rest of the world in May 2013 gave a 15.2 billion euro surplus, compared with +6.6 bn in May 2012. The April 20132 balance was +14.1 bn, compared with +3.3 bn in ...
Tags: economy
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index (HPI), fell by 2.2% in the euro area and by 1.4% in the EU3 in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to data published by Eurostat, the ...
Tags: House Price, economy
Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Chemicals
In the January-May period this year, Italy's steel exports to non-European Union (EU) countries totaled 2.203 million metric tons, down by nine percent, while its steel imports from non-EU sources totaled 3.332 million metric tons, up 27.3 ...
Tags: Flat Steel, Non-EU Countries
The Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER) confirms the stabilization of the EU economy in the second half of 2013 and a gradual but slow recovery ...
Tags: Steel Using Industries, Mineral