Although China has placed a moratorium on polysilicon imports through its export processing zones (EPZs), the measure has yet to show much impact on product pricing, according to PV industry sources in Taiwan. PV firms outside China had ...
Tags: Taiwan, Polysilicon
In the January-July period of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 1.7 percent on year-on-year basis to 3.77 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 54 percent of ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip Shipments
In the second quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by one percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in ...
Coal exports from the Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) terminals based at Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, totaled 9.16 million mt in August this year, decreasing by 9.11 percent compared to July, according to the company's ...
Tags: Coal Exports, coking coal
Quoting trade sources, the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) says, if agro climatic conditions are favourable, Indian cotton production could reach above 400 lakh (40 million) bales in the 2014-15 season and that overall acreage may jump by ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton, Textile
In the first eight months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 11.8 million mt, down 5.6 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 4.3 percent year on year to $9 billion, according to the data ...
Tags: Steel Export, Metallurgy
If the stationery enterprises want to be successful to enter the high-end market abroad, in addition to meet the domestic and foreign related production licensing requirements and basic authentication,and still need to obtain all kinds of ...
Tags: stationery, licensing requirements, professional certification
In August this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 48.4 percent, down by 0.2 percentage points as compared to July, still below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 51.1 percent in August of the current year, down 0.6 percentage points compared to July and indicating the first correction after five consecutive months of ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing sector
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in July of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 10.3 billion ($966.5 million), falling by 6.6 percent ...
Tags: Base Metal, Metallurgy
New Zealand-based Synlait Milk has secured approval from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) for its dry blending and consumer packaging plant. With the MPI approval of Synlait Milk's Risk Management Programme , the company can ...
Tags: Synlait Milk, Canning Plant, packaging
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in July this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 34.8 percent to $6.4 ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
BASF inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Nairobi. The production site will allow BASF to better meet the increasing demand for construction chemicals of customers in Eastern Africa. There, BASF produces standard ...
Tags: BASF, Facility, Construction
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to run a check on the tax payment of foreign workers in the garment factories in Bangladesh. The board has asked its field officers to prepare a list of workers who are illegally working in ...
Tags: NBR, Foreigners, Apparel
The Pakistan textile exporting industry has received a bonanza from the government in the form of a duty drawback on customs duty paid on import of raw materials used in manufacture of textile products meant for export. Through a ...
Tags: Pakistan Textile, Import, Textile