Reuters reported that Brazil's Vale, the world's second largest mining company, cut estimated 2013 capital spending by 24% after a global slowdown and a drop in iron ore prices led the company to rethink its outlook for expansion. Vale ...
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PTI reported that the Asian Development Bank recently cut India's growth forecast to 5.4% in 2012-13 fiscal, barely 2 months after it had made a projection of 5.6% growth for the Asia's third largest economy. ADB in its Supplement to the ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and next-generation smartphones launch later this year will accelerate semiconductor revenue growth in 2013 and beyond Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to grow by 4.6% in 2012 to $315bn ...
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According to industry and government officials at the OECD's Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 6-7 December 2012,the growth in global steel demand is expected to be slower in the coming decade than during the previous 10 years but longer ...
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Cutting regulation, reforming agricultural policy and buying British will boost the UK food industry and help create jobs, Owen Paterson, the new Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. ...
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The two companies had bid over $1bn each to secure access to TSMC products. Apple and Qualcomm have failed in their separate attempts to invest in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) which would have ensured them secure chips for ...
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There is no question, the jump in pump prices these past few years have shaken the economy and challenged households. The upside is that higher fuel prices have fueled the so-called green revolution and high-tech transportation development. ...
Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
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Building on the successful debut of the inaugural 2012 Global Summit in Bangkok,Cotton International will once again unite the global cotton and textile industries to address the challenges and opportunities facing the full cotton value ...
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Tons Lightology, a Taiwan-based commercial LED lighting products maker, aims to increase the proportion of total revenues from own-brand sales from 10% currently to 30% in 2013, according to company chairman Tang Shih-chuan. Global demand ...
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Global insulation demand is forecast to rise 5.5 percent annually to 23.1 billion square meters of R-1 value in 2016, a substantial acceleration from the 2006-2011 rate. In developing countries, insulation demand is expected to expand at a ...
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Copper supply shortages will extend into the first half of next year as an accelerating Chinese economy more than doubles the pace of growth in global consumption even as mines extract a record amount of metal. According to the ...
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Global demand for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has been steadily growing over the last decade, according to a new report from market analysis firm GBI Research. According to the report entitled, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Global Market to 2020 ...
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Global demand and pricing in October for solar polysilicon fell at the highest rate seen since February, indicating that supply still exceeds demand, according to IHS. Spot market pricing for 9N solar polysilicon in October plunged by ...
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Swiss food company Nestléis set to open a$200m plant in Karawang,West Java,Indonesia,in the first quarter of 2013. The plant,which is the company's fourth facility in the country,is located on a 28.8-hectare plot in Surya Cipta ...
Tags: infant cereals, chocolate malt drinks, production capacity