California has revised its controversial Technical Bulletin 117 and adopted a new flammability standard that should allow producers to make furniture and baby products that do not contain flame retardant chemicals beginning Jan. 1. ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes was unchanged in November from a downwardly revised level of 54 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today. This ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
China will encourage more e-commerce to try to bring online retail sales up to 10 percent of the total retail sales of consumer goods, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Thursday. China will expand e-commerce, with a focus on ...
Tags: E-commerce, B2B, Online Store
Strapping specialist Mosca has launched a fully automated cross strapping machine targeting the print sector The Evolution SoniXs TAI-6 automatic tandem strapping machine features a new Standard-six strap path together with a redesigned ...
Tags: Mosca, New Strapping Machine
HSBC China flash Purchasing Managers' Index fell slightly to 50.4 from a 7-month high of 50.9 in October. It still stay above the key-mark that seperates expansion from contraction. Experts believed that PMI slips due to the weakening ...
When a Chinese engineering firm sets off to build a road or a dam in a distant country, a Chinese bank is usually not far behind them. Bank branches bearing Chinese characters can be found on the streets of Lima and Warsaw, as well as Paris ...
For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Services
The series of reforms announced over the weekend in China could begin to change the way the country's local and regional governments (LRGs) operate, said Fitch Ratings, a London-based credit rating company, on Tuesday. If implemented ...
Tags: China's Reforms, Economy
On 28 October 2013, the Hohenstein Institute had two reasons to celebrate: In addition to the official opening of the new “Otto Mecheels building” with around 2,580 m² floor area, Willy Bogner, the owner of the sports ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Willy Bogner
Dr. Weston Price set out to discover the causes of misaligned teeth and cavities in the 1930's with his 10 year, in-depth research of native cultures around the world. He discovered the secrets to dental and overall health lie in nutrition. ...
Tags: brace, crooked teeth, modern day, malnutrition
Salesforce is taking security on its platform more seriously than ever, with a number of upgrades to its existing two-factor authentication on the horizon, a senior security director told Salesforce 2013 Dreamforce delegates today. ...
Tags: Dreamforce 2013, Tougher Security
Karachi—The cement industry sources wonder as to why cannot the Federal Board of Revenue keep taxation simple and easy instead of coming with policies that hurt the consumers, manufacturers and ultimately the national exchequer ...
Tags: Complex Tax System, Cement Industry, Karachi
U.S. manufacturer Veeco and German company Aixtron that have long possessed China’s LED epitaxal wafer MOCVD market, will be facing “war declarations” issued by Chinese manufacturers, according to a report by Chinese ...
Tags: MOCVD Equipment, Lighting
China is sending "encouraging" messages on climate change issues, and the country has "a huge amount" to teach the world in this area, said Andrew Steer, president and chief executive officer of the World Resources Institute. Commenting ...
Tags: Mix Encouraging, Energy
China's listed steel companies posted a net profit of 5.85 billion yuan ($960 million) in the first three quarters, reversing an industry-wide loss from a year earlier, China Securities Journal reported over the weekend. A total of 33 ...
Tags: Solid Profits, Steel