Thursday, January 16, 2014: International Market Centers has reported the highest-ever occupancy in its furniture and mattress space leading up to the Winter Las Vegas Market, fueled by a growing demand among its existing base of tenants ...
In 2013, motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 893,124 units, rising by 9.23 percent year on year, according to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD). Meanwhile, in December last year motor vehicle sales in the country saw ...
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Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
Tags: Renewable Heating Set, Fuel, Energy, Heating Market
After decades of relying on imports for garment accessories, Vietnam has for the first time exported garment accessories in 2013, reports vov.vn. Vietnam exported garment accessories worth US$ 700 million last year, according to ...
Tags: Garment Accessories, Textile
The Chinese import price for Indian-origin ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) inched higher to 84-86 cents/lb CIF China Friday, from 84-85 cents/lb CIF a week ago, as Chinese buyers lifted their price ideas amid a strengthening Chinese yuan against ...
Tags: Origin Material, Chemicals
Demand grows due to battle against effects of higher levels of air pollution China's dependency on imported natural gas is expected to surge almost 19 percent this year as the nation's battle against air pollution drives up demand for the ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Mineral
China is the top international destination for U.S. soy, importing 849 million bushels of whole U.S. soybeans in the most recent marketing year. It is hard to imagine that number growing, but experts expect U.S. soybean exports to China to ...
Tags: Soybean Exports, Agriculture
A combination of long-term feed price movement and recent stormy winter weather have combined to ignite record-high cattle and beef prices, and between those factors, a lag in cow slaughter and a strong export market have the market on ...
Tags: Beef Prices, long-term feed price
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 123,141 mt in November last year, increasing by 1.1 percent compared to October and up 41.8 percent ...
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Cattle and beef prices continue to set new records, and not by small margins. This week both slaughter steer prices and beef carcass cutout values blew away last week's record highs. Through Thursday, the 5-area average price for slaughter ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Cattle, beef
Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, Milk Powder
ICE Cotton gained over 4 cents for the week on the back of spec buying, improved technicals and rising open interest, and the continued rawdown of US cotton stocks through strong export sales (223k overall). Although domestic basis levels ...
Tags: Cotton Trends, Textile
In the wake of recently earned Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+) status, Rukhsana Shah, Federal Secretary of Textile Industry Division, Pakistan has advised value-added textile entrepreneurs to focus on the Eastern European ...
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ZHANG CHENGLIANG/CHINA DAILY Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time. "We have confidence in China's iron ore demand because ...
Citing mill discipline and some lingering supply problems, the US sheet market is reporting higher cold-rolled coil prices in the Midwest, but market participants have noted that the widening spread between CRC and hot-rolled coil may be ...
Tags: CRC Prices, Chemicals