The IATA reports that air freight volumes were up 3.3% in April compared to a year ago, which was below the 4.3% expansion seen so far this year. The April result provides a clearer reading of air freight market performance, after holiday ...
China is adopting a more welcoming attitude toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a US-led free-trade agreement now being negotiated by 12 countries, the official media has reported. Zhang Jianping, director of the department of ...
Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, FTAAP
The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered 2.48 (January-May 2014: 2.55; -3.0 percent) million vehicles from January to May this year. 499,500 (May 2014: 531,100; -5.9 percent) vehicles were handed over to customers in May. Commenting ...
Vietnam is going full steam to boost its economy. After the recent decision to establish joint chamber of commerce with Germany, Vietnam has turned its attention to Italy. Italian enterprises in the garment, leather and footwear, wood and ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Indonesian pulp and paper major Asia Pacific Resources International (April) has decided to make peace with green activists, throwing its weight behind the drive to put an end to deforestation. In response to international pressure group ...
Tags: Packaging, Paper, Environment Protection
Consumers in India prefer cleanliness as the most important factor for visiting shopping centers, along with personal safety and security. Value retail is also a favored category for the price conscious Indian consumer. Convenience – ...
Tags: Indian retail market, Economy
Japanese automobile maker Toyota is looking into ways to adopt SmartDeviceLink (SDL), the open-source version of Ford AppLink, for its utilization in a sector wide solution towards integrating smartphone application with vehicles. Ford ...
Tags: Taiwan, Ford, Auto, Car, Automobile
World demand for silicones is forecast to rise 5.7 percent per year to $19.3 billion in 2019. The pace of growth in value terms will be in line with that seen over the 2009-2014 period, largely due to an improved outlook for silicone ...
Tags: Silicones, World Demand
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Coatings in global aerospace industry are expected to increase with a CAGR of 3.6% by 2020. The major drivers for coatings is increasing air passenger traffic rate, which increases aircraft deliveries and thereby increases the demand for ...
Tags: Aerospace Industry, Coatings
Automobili Lamborghini has launched its third luxury SUV, set for hitting the market in 2018. The new Lamborghini SUV will be produced at the company's Sant'Ag ata Bolognese unit, in line with the company's policy to make in Italy. ...
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Australia has dropped another place in world competitiveness rankings, falling further in economic performance and government efficiency rankings, raising concerns about our competitiveness as a smart economy. In releasing the Australian ...
After a successful 2013, the market for RF power semiconductors for wireless infrastructure blew off the chart in 2014, according to a new report from market analyst firm ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, and China specifically, ...
Jowat Adhesives has inaugurated a new production site near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, to expand its production capacities and distribution activities in the region. The new Jowat site located in the Industrial Park Bandar Enstek ...
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Coatings firm PPG Industries will showcase its new range of beverage can interior spray coatings at the Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific to be held in June in Guangzhou, China. PPG will introduce Innovel HPE polyester coatings for coil ...