Canton, Ohio-based The Timken Company reported Thursday third-quarter 2013 sales of $1.1 billion, a 7 percent decrease compared with the same period a year ago, primarily due to weaker demand from the company's broad end markets, partially ...
Tags: Steel Segment, economic growth
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced that it has been granted an exclusive 30-year exploitation license for its wholly-owned Isua iron ore project in Greenland. The Isua project with a ...
Tags: Iron Ore Project, Mineral
Rising domestic demand provides firm basis for expansion in the industrial sector British bank HSBC Holdings Plc said that China's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index will rise to a seven-month high of 50.9 in October, up from 50.2 ...
Tags: domestic demand, Chemicals
Unrelenting hourly-based gas supply to Punjab textile industry by Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Ltd (SNGPL) over past three months has helped the industry to boost its exports, said All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab chairman ...
Tags: Gas Supply, textile industry
Welspun India Ltd., (WIL), part of the $ 3.5 billion Welspun Group announced Q2 FY14 results, showing strong growth in revenue and operating profit in comparison to the corresponding period last year. Consolidated Financial Highlights ...
Tags: Welspun India, Textile
An update of key elements of a 2012 report on the impact of federal regulations on the manufacturing sector finds that the problems continue to persist, and in fact have increased in 2013. NERA Economic Consulting's update of a report ...
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its top ten list of trucking industry concerns this week. The 2013 survey, which was commissioned by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), had a 41 percent increase in ...
Tags: Trucking Industry, Transportation
Brazil heralded this week's auction of a huge oil field as a vindication of its state-dominant approach to its oil riches, but some industry experts say the country must modify its rules before new fields are sold for Brazil to achieve its ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
BRC announce the appointment of tax experts EY to support a rigorous process of examining the options for reform of the business rates system. The outcome will be recommendations for changes to business rates that will contribute to UK ...
Tags: Business Rates Problem, Apparel
Australian businesses are failing to pay their bills on time more often than not, with 60 per cent of invoices settled beyond the standard 30-day payment period. Dun & Bradstreet ' s latest Trade Payments Analysis shows that this high ...
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013, reporting an operating profit of €10 million in the third quarter, compared to an operating loss of 15 million in ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to a report released Tuesday by the Associated General Contractors of America, US construction employment rose by 20,000 in September and the industry's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low of 8.5 percent, while construction ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The global glass market is expected to be the largest consumer and driver of soda ash business to 2018 and beyond. Global soda ash demand is expected to increase from around 55m tpa today to more than 65m tpa by 2018, while the capacity ...
Tags: Soda Ash, Construction Glass
ManpowerGroup, the world leader in innovative workforce solutions and World Economic Forum (WEF) strategic partner, has called for improved alignment between the skills taught by Russia's education system and those required by business, in ...
Tags: Human Capital, Economic Growth
The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) advanced seasonally adjuted (SA) For-Hire Tonnage Index rose 1.4 percent in September. "I continue to be pleasantly surprised on the strength of truck tonnage," ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck