"What's the one thing that you need to be really, really worried about over the next two weeks," Eric Starks, president of FTR Associates, asked attendees at the 27th Annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Technology yesterday. ...
Tags: Ceiling, Port Activity
The National Assn. for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Assn. of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR) have announced the release of the "Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2012," which cites a 2012 U.S. ...
Tags: Recycle Rate, Pet
In a keynote address titled, “Global Leadership and the Chemical Industry,” to the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) annual meeting in Berlin on October 7, Mohamed Al-Mady, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Vice ...
Oil producers are currently doing a good job of balancing world oil market fundamentals, but it is too early to say if OPEC will leave crude production levels unchanged when it next meets in December, UAE oil minister Suhail al-Mazrouei ...
Tags: Oil Producers, Oil Minister
The very first IFAT India will be taking place in the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Mumbai between October 24 and 26, 2013. And already it has exceeded expectations: Over 100 exhibitors from 15 countries have signed up to take part in ...
Under the theme “Innovation, Sustainability and Color," PPG Industries recently hosted its Asia Pacific Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Forum and a celebration of the company’s 130th anniversary in Shanghai. ...
Tags: PPG, Construction Coating
The Central Bank of Bangladesh has created a fund of Tk 100 crore with the assistance of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to improve safety standards in the apparel sector. Factory owners will receive the loan from commercial ...
Tags: Bangla Garment, Textile
While industrial performance has stabilised, industry's share in Europe's GDP has declined from 15.5% of GDP one year ago to 15.1% in summer 2013. The two industrial Competitiveness reports published today by the European Commission ...
Tags: Service, industry economy
For the fifth consecutive year, ASCER has organized a group participation of Tile of Spain - the umbrella brand for the international promotion of Spanish ceramic tiles- in Ace Tech 2013. This international fair will be held October 17-20 ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Tile
With home prices and household formations rising and household balance sheets healing, the ongoing housing recovery is expected to gain momentum next year even as several challenges remain, according to economists who participated in the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
At a time when Indian, Russian and Brazilian car markets are stumbling, China remains the major growth engine for the global automotive industry, analysts say. "For many years it's been the Bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Cars
The Markit Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index rose to a 27-month high in September, signalling the largest rise in activity since June 2011, according to the flash estimate. The flash PMI rose for the sixth consecutive month, up from 51.5 ...
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
China's gasoil exports in August hit an almost 17-month low of 70,000 mt, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs late Monday. The volumes were the lowest since March 2012, when China exported 60,000 mt of ...
Tags: Gasoil Exports, Chemicals
Japan's Nissan auto group plan to build an new car factory in Myanmar. (September 20) the Nissan said in the Yangon, the new factories will produce 10000 Nissan Sunny car every year since 2015. The factory will be built by the Tan Chong ...
Tags: car, Nissan, auto, Transportation