The appreciation of Pakistani rupee against the US dollar has adversely affected export-oriented sectors, including textiles, and the Finance Ministry should look into resolving these issues, said Trade Development Authority of Pakistan ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industry
Natural gas demand in Italy in March fell by almost 24% year on year to 6.026 billion cubic meters, gas and power exchange manager GME said Tuesday. GME said power plant demand fell by 33% to 1.276 Bcm, one of the "strongest decreases ...
Tags: Natural gas, Gas Demand, Heating demand
Just weeks remain before companies registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must disclose whether they are receiving tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and, if so, ...
Tags: Conflict Minerals, tantalum
Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
Tags: Yahoo, Computer Products
Flakeboard, manufacturer of composite panel materials, is the newest associate member of the North American Laminate Flooring Association (NALFA). NALFA offers three levels of membership – regular manufacturing membership, associate ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Flakeboard
The timespread for 500 ppm gasoil swaps in Singapore widened to a four-month high of 83 cents/barrel for May/June Monday, reflecting a tighter market during the regional refinery maintenance season, a narrowing East/West spread and ...
Japan's spot aluminum trade remained thin Monday, but market sources said the outlook for construction demand was positive and would boost buying interest if London Metal Exchange prices fall below $1,800/mt. The LME three-month aluminum ...
Tags: aluminum, aluminum ingot
Malaysia has approved a 20% increase in natural gas prices for industrial and commercial sectors in the west of the country, effective May 1, in order to reflect the cost of procuring more expensive imported LNG. Domestic natural gas ...
Tags: natural gas, LNG Cost
The issue of food safety has rocketed up the political agenda in recent years but despite huge improvements, some concerns and problems still persist. Fears about our food are moving away from issues about ensuring an adequate supply and ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy (Yingli China), has entered into a framework agreement with United Photovoltaic Group Limited (United PV) for the acquisition of China-based solar PV plants ...
Tags: acquisition PV Yingli Green Energy, Lights, Lighting, Solar Plants
The Stockmann Group’s revenue was down 4.7 per cent on the previous year and amounted to EUR 141.1 million in March 2014. The decline was due to currency exchange rates, as the Russian rouble reached its weakest level ever against the ...
Mosca is one of the interpack regulars. The company knows that what matters at interpack is the exchange between exhibitors and trade visitors. So yes, it will be putting its fully automated strapping machine SoniXs TR-6 is on display for ...
China's copper stocks continued to slip for the fourth consecutive week in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses. Copper inventories stood at 142,671 mt Friday, down 17% week on week, the latest weekly data from the Chinese bourse showed. ...
Tags: Copper Stocks, copper
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics PICs, Electrical, Electronics
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki (Rautaruukki Corp.) has announced that Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has passed the necessary resolutions to enable the implementation of the planned share exchange offer to Rautaruukki's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel