AkzoNobel's new €80 million Imperatriz Chemical Island in Brazil is now operational and has started supplying the Suzano Maranhão Pulp Mill in northern Brazil. Operated by the company's Pulp and Performance Chemicals business, ...
Tags: Construction, Chemicals
Stadler UK is responsible for delivering the project which will result in a new plastics recycling facility capable of processing 75,000 tons of mixed plastics each year into high quality clean plastic grades ready to be used in the ...
All India cotton arrivals have dropped to approximately 85,000 bales per day. The total cotton pressed for the fortnight ending 30th April is approximately 3 crore 35 lakh bales as per trade sources. The unsold cotton stock with ginners and ...
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The Spanish textile industry, including apparel, leather and footwear created 3,047 new jobs during the month of April, 2014, as per the membership in employment data of the Seguridad Social (Social Security) of Spain, modaes.es reports. ...
Tags: Textile Industry, apparel
Indian handloom sector has been experiencing negative growth which is a cause of serious concern, said Textiles Secretary Zohra Chatterji, during the recently held Buyer-Seller Meet for handloom products in Mumbai, reports the Hindu ...
Tags: Handloom sector, exquisite weaving
Reacting on the apparel exports data, for the month of April 2014-15, Mr. Virender Uppal, Chairman AEPC, remarked, “This is the first month of the 2014-15 and Apparel Exports have recorded the growth of 14.33% compared to the April ...
Tags: April Apparel, Apparel Exports
Body Central Corp. announces the measures taken by company to reduce compensation expense in fiscal year 2014. On May 8, 2014, Body Central Corp. entered into amendments to its employment agreements with Brian Woolf, its Chief ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announces it has selected the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC) in Los Angeles, Calif. to receive a $200,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grant to provide ...
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The Australian economy seems to be improving, with two recent reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) indicating that the economy has turned for the better. Retail turnover up, even if only slightly The latest ABS Retail ...
Australia's peak body for rail has commended the Victorian Government on its budget commitment of up to $11 billion to construct the Melbourne Rail Link – a project it says will transform the city's entire transport network making it ...
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China’s manufacturing contracted in April for the fourth straight month but the pace of decline was less severe, suggesting the downturn in the world’s No. 2 economy is bottoming out. HSBC’s purchasing managers’ ...
A majority of U.S. manufacturing executives expect their sales will grow a little more than 9 percent for the rest of 2014, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s semi-annual survey of purchasing and supply managers. Of ...
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Of the 351 metro markets measured, 300 have seen year-over-year economic gains, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI). The index shows that 59 metros have fully returned to or even ...
Tags: Metro Markets, Economic Gains
Imported products sold in the United States from clothing to cars contain far more U.S. parts or other content and value and support significantly more American jobs than consumers or policymakers realize, according to a new report prepared ...
Tags: Imported Products, American-Made
Domestic sales of apparel and textiles in the central South American country of Paraguay has declined by 40 percent last year, compared to 2012, owing to the massive influx of clothing from Argentina and China entering the country at ...
Tags: Paraguayan Clothing, apparel, textiles