Compounding extruders continued their comeback this year, with something new - demand for large-volume compounding machines, industry officials said. A resurgent automotive sector, joined with steady packaging and recycling markets, has ...
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The Ohio Tax Credit Authority has awarded Milacron LLC a state tax credit for the plastics machinery maker’s recent $1.5 million capital equipment investment expansion at its machining plant in Mount Orab, Ohio. Milacron is buying ...
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Machinery stocks may outperform the market through the end of the year as new orders rebound, helping to defy concerns about another U. S. Recession. American manufacturers booked $32.6 billion in new orders for machinery equipment in ...
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The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation‘s October 2011 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI), released Oct. 21, shows that confidence in the equipment finance market is 50.7, up from the September ...
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For a third week in a row, the national average retail price of diesel rose, climbing 6.7 cents to $3.892 in the latest week, according to the U. S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. Average prices increased in ...
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Orders for industrial robots were up 41 percent through the first nine months of 2011 — As North America-based robot companies are on target for one of their best years ever, according to the Robotic Industries Association. “In ...
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Manufacturing in the New York region unexpectedly expanded in November, as measures of shipments and the employee workweek improved. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index rose to 0.6, the first positive reading ...
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Canfor Corp. Has reached an agreement with Tembec to purchase Tembec's two eastern British Columbia sawmills for $60 million, including working capital. The deal gives Canfor Tembec's mills at Canal Flats and Elko along with 1.1 million ...
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With weaker demand for lumber around the world, sawlog prices fell in a majority of the 21 markets tracked by the WRQ. The Global Conifer Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) declined in the 3Q for the first time since the 1Q/09 to $90.18/m3. With a ...
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Hardware market in China are mainly distributed in Shanghai, Guangdong and Shandong and other places, including Zhejiang and Guangdong, the most prominent. At present, Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta region surrounding gathered more than ...
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The standardization of ceramic raw materials is a problem for years plagued the industry. Industry has long been recognized, only to achieve the standardization of raw materials, will have a standardized product, the level of industrial ...
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Extruders make everything from medical tubing and film and sheet for packaging — Strong markets— To vinyl windows and siding — These days, not so hot. The diversity sums up the North American extruder market in 2011. The ...
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West Coast log and lumber exports in the first nine months of the year already have surpassed exports for all of 2010, largely because of Chinese demand, the U. S. Forest Service reported Monday. Along the entire West Coast, log exports ...
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"With the demand end of last year the bubble finally burst in the financial crisis, a sharp decline in orders for German Machine tool industry." German Machine Tool Association, Xiweierke said recently. According to recent news published in ...
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Containerboard and Market Pulp Pricing Under Pressure, Recycled Board Flat Nov. 22, 2011 - According to analysts at Deutsche Bank (DB), November estimated containerboard prices were flat month/month at $635-645/ton. However, pressure on ...
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