In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 0.3 percent in January this year compared to December and rose by 0.8 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the ...
Tags: Metal Output, Mineral
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in January of the current year amounted to 7.43 million ...
Tags: Steel Product, Domestic Orders
Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, had February consolidated revenues of NT$1.982 billion (US$65.4 million) increasing by 4.95% on month and by 57.48% on year, while the largest Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
Germany-based Vion Zeven has unveiled plans to shut its pork slaughter and processing plant in Lingen, as the facility has been incurring higher losses in the recent past. In 2013, the slaughtering operations at the plant dropped by 30% ...
Tags: Lingen Pork, Vion, Pork
Mercedes-Benz sold 104,968 units in February, thus achieving a growth of 16.5%. Since the beginning of the year 215,753 cars have been delivered to customers (+16.6%). "We are keeping up the high momentum of the previous months - with a ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Auto Parts
The exports of garments and textiles from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam surged 44.9 percent year-on-year in February 2014 to reach US$ 1.3 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported. In the first two months of the ...
Tags: Garment, Textile Exports, Apparel
This Editorial appears in the March 10 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Signs are increasing that the nation's economic health is steadily improving. It's not a barnburner, and there is still some ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
The Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has signed an agreement for extending 161 billion dong (US$ 7.8 million) to Thien An Thinh Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company for setting up a new textile ...
Tags: Textile Plant, Textile
Keeping the Stockroom on Track in Less Floor Space Founded in 1961, Plasser American Corp. continues to serve the nation's freight railroads and high speed intercity and commuter systems. The product line includes an entire range of ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
As of the 1st of January 2014, the Fair Work Commission has jurisdiction to hear complaints about bulling in the workplace. Statistics released by the Commission has indicated that 44 applications for anti-bullying orders were made in ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Dorel Industries reported that its Recreational/Leisure Segment lost $5.4 million after mostly non-cash restructuring charges that reduced its overall earnings by about half. Dorel warned investors in early February that continued ...
Tags: Dorel Industries, Sporting Goods
Factory orders declined 0.7% in January, the Commerce Department reported March 6. The decline followed a revised 2% decline in December that was larger than initially reported. Durable goods orders dropped 1% in January. Orders for ...
Tags: Transportation
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 demonstrated some new trends of the tablet industry: tablets with phone functions are starting to catch attention from brand vendors; some major brand vendors are developing tablets for the niche market, ...
The impact of the US anti-dumping investigation of Taiwan-based makers who supply solar cells to China-based PV module makers is expected to start showing in May, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The US Department of Commerce is ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, Solar Cell
ArcelorMittal to supply clad steel plate for UAE's largest oilfield Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced that its Industeel site in Le Creusot, France, will provide 5,400 mt of clad steel plates for the Zakum oilfield, the largest ...
Tags: Clad Steel Plate