The rising cost of petrol helped to push up debit and credit card spending in New Zealand's retail trades by 0.4 percent last month, the government statistics agency announced Friday. Spending on fuel, which was up by 39 million NZ ...
2013 has brought about some amazing trends in both commercial and residential carpets. These trends are far more intrinsic than simple—or sophisticated—aesthetics. New fiber systems, improved performance characteristics and ...
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Global sales of fiber optic circulators to reach $230 million in 2013, $313m in 2017, says analyst The global sales value of fiber optic circulators in optical communications will grow at an average annual rate of 8.4 percent, from ...
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An updated European Union safety regulation on toys will place pressure on Chinese toy makers and affect the nation's exports to an already weakening European market, but could also provide an opportunity to upgrade the domestic toy ...
Australia- and Greer, S.C.-based specialty chemicals and solutions developer Alexium International Group Ltd. — holder of proprietary patent applications for Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) technology — has developed an ...
Nuclear, fossil, wind and solar power plant operators will spend $21 billion in 2014 for hardware and consumables to move, treat and monitor water. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company by aggregating forecasts appearing ...
According to Voice of China “peak evening news” reported today, “the new EU Toy Safety Directive” into effect. The EU is the world’s second largest after the U.S. toy consumer market, while the EU market, more ...
Reporters learned from the Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, known as 'the most serious,' the EU toy new regulations - Toy Safety Directive will be fully implemented on December 20, which accounted for 60% of toy exports of ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,28 commodities increased in prices, 19 fell and 53 remained unchanged on 02/08/2013.The largest rises were Propylene oxide (2.02%),PP (1.51%),LLDPE (1.43%),while the ...
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The Spanish company Jeanologia, world leader in the development of sustainable technologies for finishing garments, and its partner in China, Prosperity Textile, have launched a sustainable technology Demo Centre in Guangzhou (China) to ...
Alpaca fibre, both from Southern countries of Peru and Australia, is in high demand in the luxury apparel market mainly due to its natural range of colours and other environment friendly qualities. This can be gauged from the fact ...
BASF increased sales by 3% in the second quarter of 2013 to just under €18.4 billion thanks to higher sales volumes in all segments. Income from operations (EBIT) before special items decreased by 5% to around €1.8 billion. In the ...
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Biodegradable hydraulic oil is a medium used to transfer power to hydraulic machinery. In some instances, this is used as replacement for conventional petroleum products. Nowadays, this is used in many different industries such as forestry, ...
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The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has signed a definite agreement to acquire the global rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc. The unit, currently part of Rockwood's "Performance Additives" segment, is one of the world's leading ...
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Gevo, the world's only commercial producer of bio-based isobutanol, announced that it has brought its second million liter fermenter and GIFT system online at its Luverne, Minn. facility. "We have been successful in operating full-scale ...
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