U.S. consumers who purchase gifts during the 2014 Christmas season anticipate spending an average of $596.53, according to the National Retail Federation's (NRF) annual holiday intentions survey. The anticipated figure represented an ...
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Starlinger, a producer of machinery for woven plastic sack production is showing the next generation of high-tech circular weaving technology - FX 6.0 series at OTM 2014 in Gaziantep, Turkey. “After thorough testing in the company's ...
Joining the Disney Princess range, Elsa's Sparkling Ice Palace will feature LEGO Elsa, LEGO Anna and LEGO Olaf. LEGO has unveiled its first building set based on Disney’s award winning animated blockbuster movie, Frozen. Titled ...
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Fitness model and UK body building champion, Carly Thornton, has become the latest sportsperson to join Mammoth’s professional endorsements. Thanks to the health benefits of Mammoth mattresses, Carly, alongside many other athletes, ...
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In August global semiconductor market growth slowed, although Europe continued to show strong year-on-year growth at above 10 percent, according to data from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization, reported by the ...
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Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...
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The global apparent steel demand for 2014 will increase by two percent to 1.56 billion metric tons, following a growth of 3.8 percent in 2013, according to the short range outlook presented at the 48th annual meeting of the World Steel ...
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The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Wednesday that construction spending during August 2014 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $961.0 billion, 0.8 percent (±1.8 percent) below the revised ...
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Global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations added during the fourth quarter of 2014 are forecast to exceed 19.5GW, pushing global cumulative PV deployment toward the 200GW mark. The amount of solar PV deployed in the fourth quarter is ...
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Xi’an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Supernova Lighting Technology Co., Ltd., of China have used silver nanorods to engineer gallium vacancy defects in gallium nitride (GaN) to create color tunable light emitting diodes [Yaping Huang ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, LED heterostructure
Platts’ analysis shows apparent oil demand in August was 41.19 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.74 million barrels per day (b/d) — an increase of 3.7% year over year. This growth came despite a slew of bearish economic ...
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Toray Industries’ group operating profit apparently grew 13% on the year to around 50 billion yen ($462 million) for the April-September half as carbon fiber sales made up for lower-than-expected sales in other segments. The figure ...
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The production and sales of coal declined in the first eight months in China, according to the China Coal Industry Association Sunday. China produced 2.52 billion tonnes of coal from January to August this year, down 1.4 percent from the ...
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On September 25, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-September this year (September 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all ...
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its planned sales volumes of rebar, billet and bloom, beams, and pig iron for the October-December quarter of the current ...