The Competition Commission of India (CCI), the country’s fair trade regulator, has closed the case against the Coimbatore-based textile machine maker Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW). The case against LMW was filed by Shahi Exports ...
Tags: CCI, textile machine maker, LMW
Chih Lien Industrial Co., Ltd., one of the major manufacturers in steel bars and wires in Taiwan, said the company's January combining sales revenue was 194 million NT dollars which has risen 82.73% Y-O-Y. Chih Lien said the major reason ...
Tags: steel bars, wires, Steel Corp
Quintain Steel, one of the major wire rod producers in Taiwan, announced to raise all its wire rod prices on Feb 25th. Affected by the raw material markup and NT dollar depreciation, the company finally decided to hike prices by nearly ...
Tags: Quintain Steel, rod producers, Steel
Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal announced to raise its heavy plate price by JPY3000/ton (US$32/ton) for March again since price up in February by JPY3000/ton (US$32/ton). Due to the weak market, mill’s profit was cut ...
Tags: Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal, Steel
Yieh Phui Enterprise (YP), one of the major coating steel mills in Taiwan, has announced its January combining sales revenue was NT$4.819 billion which has risen 8.12% Y-O-Y. Due to the dropping NTD currency, YP has become profitable ...
Tags: coating steel mills, coating steel, steel
Kenya s East African Portland Cement plans to expand after returning to profit during the six months ended December, boosted by cost cutting and improved cement sales. Portland, Kenya s No. 3 cement producer, said on Monday it was ...
Tags: Kenya s East African Portland Cement, cement sales, company news
For fourth-quarter 2012, Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has reported revenue of $20m, up slightly on $19.9m last quarter ...
Tags: LEDs, LED market, LED customer
UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
Tags: Primark, 2012 Sales, 2012 results
Urbanearthwear is an eco-fashion brand designing women's organic underwear. It has been founded by Sarah Streeter, designer of the organic underwear range, and it’s made ethically in Melbourne. All products from Urbanearthwear are ...
Latin American steelmaker Ternium has reported a net loss of $275 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to a net profit of $136.4 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. In the full year 2012, Ternium's net ...
Tags: Ternium, net profit, steelmaker
A new cement plant in Sönmez, Turkey has ordered an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE via general contractor CATIC Co. Ltd of Beijing, China. The 470 tph mill makes up the main ...
Tags: cement plant, Turkey, roller mill, cement
Bakkavor has booked an increase in earnings during 2012 as the group was able to extend its "market leading positions" in the chilled and convenience sectors. The company today (21 February) revealed that operating profit rose to GBP56.8m ...
The quoted prices have once again reached the level of the previous week after a short weakness. Support was provided by the ICE quotes regarding the upcoming First Notice Day for March as well as recently published official crop reports. ...
Tags: ICE, Bremen, Cotton Prices
High-filled 80 g white decor paper has become €5-10/100 kg cheaper, as recently predicted, in the wake of talks that typically ran until the end of December. Yet a variety of decor paper producers noted that more radical price cuts had ...
Tags: white decor paper, Decor Paper Prices, decor
The wide-ranging survey, covering the whole UK plastics sector, also looked into areas such as profitability, exports and skills needs. A total of 100 companies participated and it asked how they saw 2013 shaping up. According to the BPF, ...
Tags: wide-ranging survey, UK plastics sector, profitability