The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) returned to positive territory after a slight dip in August, and has seen growth in six of the nine months of the year so far. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects ...
Asian Paints has announced its financial results for the quarter and six months ended September 30, 2015. “The demand conditions in the Indian Economy remained subdued and growth of decorative coatings business segment in India ...
Tags: Asian Paints, decorative coatings
General Motors (GM) has announced its plan to add a second shift at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant in the US, creating 1,200 new jobs. The addition of second shift comes as the company plans to meet the expected market demand for the ...
Tags: General Motors, cars
In 2014, domestic waste formed 57% of all waste disposed of. Of this, about one third was packaging waste. In a bid to curb the growth of packaging waste and inspire businesses to reduce the amount of packaging used in their products, the ...
Around 5,000 cases of frozen crab products that were processed by Rhode Island-based Rome Packing Company were seized by federal officials in the US over possible Listeria contamination. The government alleged that Rome Packing ...
Tags: Frozen Crab, Rome Packing
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has worked with the General Administration of Customs, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to entrust the Academy of Mathematics and System Science, ...
Tags: bilateral trade, global value chains, trade in value added
In order to further strengthen the close cooperation between China and the EU in urbanization and industrial sustainable development and promote the effective implementation of the Joint Declaration of China-EU Urbanization Partnership, the ...
Tags: China-EU Urbanization, Industrial Sustainable Development
The General Office of the Ministry of Commerce has recently issued the Notice of the Guidance Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Modern Logistic System of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials (No.[2014]809, hereinafter referred to ...
Tags: Chinese Medicinal Materials, packaging, storage, transportation
With the improvement of China’s urbanization level and upgrading of household consumption, the scale of commercial logistics growing rapidly, the potential of demands getting greater, service ability rising sharply, a trend of ...
Tags: commercial logistics, service ability, trend of internationalization
The Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) will hold its seventh regular meeting on January 29 in Taipei, according to an agreement between the mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and ...
Tags: Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation, trade in goods, trade in service
In April 2014, the Ministry of Commerce integrated some of the business functions of the former Bureau of Fair Trade and the former Bureau of Industrial Damage Investigation and officially established the Bureau of Trade Remedy and ...
The Ministry of Commerce held the 2015 National Conference on Import and Export on February 5, 2015. The main task of this conference was to convey and implement the important instructions of central leaders on foreign trade, implement the ...
In 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening Rural Reform and Speeding up Agricultural Modernization, integrated and took advantages of ...
The special event of the 9th Expo Central China-Dialogue between Mayors and MNCs in 2015 was held in Wuhan on May 19, 2015. This Dialogue was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the people’s government of Hubei province, ...
Tags: Industrie 4.0, Made in China 2025
At the IMAPS 48th International Symposium on Microelectronics in Orlando, FL, USA (26-29 October), Thomas Obeloer, business development manager at Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers ...
Tags: Element Six, GaN-on-diamond, micro-cooler, heat spreaders