The firm, which makes seven million plastic bags a week, has just translated its website into Polish and Russian, and is working with business support programme Enterprising Barnsley to move into other countries, such as Germany and Sweden. ...
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Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of SEK 49 million ($7.5 million) for the given quarter, compared to a net loss of SEK 137 million in the ...
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The global aluminium market is forecast to shift to deficit from surplus this year, HSBC said Monday in its Metals Quarterly report for the second quarter of 2014. "The acceleration of cuts and deferrals in markets outside China has ...
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U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil, and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher ...
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In 2013, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian steelmaking subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, exported 86 percent of its steel product output, compared to 86.4 percent in 2012, as announced by the company. Last year, the ...
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Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. says it will establish an overseas subsidiary in Germany on May 1, 2014.It will be called Toyo Tire Deutschland GmbH (TTD). Previously, all tire sales for the German and Austrian markets were handled by the ...
Tags: tire, tyre, auto parts
BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor reports global results for Q1 2014 depicting increase in the total volume of overseas consumers searching for UK apparel retailers. BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor Q1 2014 results -Q1 2014 experienced a ...
Tags: UK Apparel, Apparel, Textile
Spot trade of 226, the main aluminum alloy grade, was slow this week, with consumers wary of higher prices, and partly because of the shorter working week. A number of producers have pushed offers of 226 ingot up to around Eur1,700/mt ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, TMK shipped 1.022 million mt of pipes to customers, down ...
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UK shale gas exploration and production could generate a GBP33 billion ($55 billion) investment boom, according to a report published by the UK shale lobby group UK Onshore Operators Group. Drafted by EY -- formerly Ernst & Young -- the ...
ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
Since the worldwide structural shift in the textile industry, only a handful of companies remain in the former textiles heartland of the Swabian Alb. One of these companies is the Albstadt-based underwear manufacturer Comazo GmbH + Co. KG, ...
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Recently Yuchai joined the 115th Cannon Fair. As the largest independent engine maker, Yuchai inherits "Green development and harmonious win-win" concept and invests on technology and development on energy-saving and environmental ...
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Titan International Inc. posted net income of $2.1 million on net sales of $539 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of more than $19.4 million on sales of $578.4 million for the same period in fiscal ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre, tire
In the first quarter of the current year, Russian coal exports increased by 17.3 percent year on year to 35.819 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In March alone, Russia exported 12.123 million mt ...
Tags: Coal Exports, coal