Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s largest PET company, achieved total sales revenue of US$ 1.9 billion in the second quarter of 2013, a rise of 9% over the same period last year. Margin gains in Asia ...
Tags: Pet Company
BASF is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year in Shanghai, China. The new plant is planned to start up in 2015. “As part of our long-term strategy, we aim to locate production ...
Tags: Ultramid Chinese Plant, BASF
Summer 2013 Sympatex Technologies launches two new products which offer the wearer an exceptionally comfortable body climate. Phaseable is a new 2.5-layer laminate, 3D apparel technology. The three-dimensional half-layer on the inside of ...
Tags: Sympatex, 3D Technology Apparels
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. posted net income of 13 billion yen on net sales of 269.7 billion yen for the first half of its fiscal year ended June 30, 2013. Operating income was 19.1 billion yen, down 4.2% compared to the year-ago period. ...
Tags: economy, Auto Parts
Pentair Ltd. announced second quarter 2013 sales of $2.0 billion. Sales were up 4 percent compared to adjusted pro forma sales for the same period last year. Adjusted second quarter 2013 earnings per diluted share ("EPS") were $0.92, up 19 ...
Eco-Tec Inc, the Canadian supplier of industrial water treatment and chemical recovery systems, is expanding its manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario. The company will add approximately 17 000 sq ft of state-of-the-art production ...
Toray Industries, announced its consolidated business results for the three months ended June 30, 2013 of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. In the period under review, while the European economy continued its downward trend and ...
Tags: Fibre Producer, Toray
The latest update of global freight data collected by the International Transport Forum at the OECD through April 2013 indicates that the overall picture for global freight continues to be uncertain. The overall picture for global freight ...
Tags: Asia Transport, Service
The Finnish machinery and plant manufacturer Raute saw its order intake recover a little to €24m in the second quarter. The first quarter had ended with new orders valued at just €10m. The backlog of orders climbed by €3m ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
A total of 247 metropolitan areas across 49 states and the District of Columbia qualified for inclusion on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for August, released recently. While this is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Industry data processed by Gimav in its annual Industry Report paint a very clear picture of the brilliant condition Italy's glass processing machine building industry is enjoying. Of course, in this case exports are synonymous with ...
Tags: Glass, Construction
Order intake picked up slightly at Emhart Glass in the first half of the year thanks to increased demand for glass container manufacturing and inspection equipment. Its new inspection machines made a contribution to this growth, which ...
Tags: Construction, Glass
Good rains that are likely to remain strong for the rest of the monsoon are set to keep cement demand under pressure in the ongoing July-September quarter. While demand for cement between May-end and June was supported by pre-monsoon ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
At the end of June, the Canadian wood-based-panels manufacturer Norbord re-commissioned its US-American OSB plant in Jefferson, which had been shut down indefinitely in January 2009. The company had already announced this step at the ...
Tags: Construction, wood
For second-quarter 2013, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has ...
Tags: GigOptix, Electrical, Electronics