Today is the last day of this year's National Home Show in Toronto. Exhibitors have shown off their home goods and services for the last 10 days. More than 100,000 visitors came to admire interesting garden designs and furniture and to ...
Tags: Outdoor Furniture, Furniture, Furnishing
AK Steel announced Friday that it expects a loss for its first quarter, attributing temporary factors such as an unplanned blast furnace outage. Harsh winter weather--the main complaint for other US mills--was also mentioned as a factor. ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
TBC Wholesale is is expanding its Hifly Win-Turi 215 studdable line and introducing two new lines for the 2014-2015 season: the Hifly Vigorous W601 studdable LT line and the studless HIFLY Win-Turi 212 line. The company says these lines ...
Tags: Winter Tire Program, TBC
Home prices continued to show solid growth in most of the country due to limited inventory conditions, but rising prices and severe winter weather caused existing-home sales to slip in February, according to the National Association of ...
Tags: Home Sales, Home prices
Steel Dynamics Inc. announced Tuesday weak guidance for the first quarter of 2014, citing harsh winter weather that resulted in higher energy costs, transportation difficulties, and decreased production and shipments. The company expects ...
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Alcoa, the inventor and global leader of forged aluminum wheels, is investing US$13 million to expand its wheel manufacturing plant in Europe, to meet growing demand for its lightweight, durable, low-maintenance aluminum truck wheels. The ...
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General Mills today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal 2014. Sales and operating profit for the 13 weeks ended Feb. 23, 2014, reflect lower volumes, consistent with generally weak food industry trends during this period; the ...
Cintas Corporation reported results for its third quarter ended February 28, 2014. Revenue for the third quarter was $1.13 billion, representing a 5.1% increase compared to last year’s third quarter. Adjusting for one more workday in ...
Tags: Cintas, Uniform Direct Sales, EPS
U.S. manufacturers saw a rebound last month as production grew by the most in six months, according to a report from Bloomberg. American factories produced more cars, chemicals and business equipment, fueling a 0.8 percent increase as the ...
Tags: cars, chemicals, business equipment
Nationwide housing starts were virtually unchanged in February,inching down.2%to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 907,000 units,according to newly released data from the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S.Census ...
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Truck manufacturers Paccar and Daimler are recalling thousands of trucks equipped with Cummins Westport Model ISL G and ISLX12 G engines because of a potential issue with the intake manifold pressure sensor. Earlier this month, engine ...
Tags: Natural Gas Engines, Trucks
East China's ferrous scrap prices fell sharply this week amid weaker raw material, finished steel and steel futures markets in the first-half of the week. Platts assessed heavy scrap over 6 mm at Yuan 2,320/mt ($377/mt) on a delivered ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Raw Material, Steel Markets
Domestic ethanol prices in center-south Brazil retreated on Friday following the early start of the 2014-15 harvest. The ex-mill Ribeirao hydrous ethanol assessment decreased to R$1,600/cu m -- the lowest in almost a month as traders ...
Prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub fell Friday morning as the system saw a large supply surplus and warm, sunny weather expected for the weekend should further cut heating demand. "The system was the longest I've seen it," one ...
Tags: gas storage, Oversupply
A study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards. Professor Andy Challinor, from the School of ...
Tags: Crop, Agriculture, Food