The International Photovoltaic Equipment Association (IPVEA), the premiere trade organization supporting and enabling Upstream Solar and energy storage professionals worldwide, has announced a new initiative – "IPVEA study on ...
Tags: Global Solar PV Supply Chain, Solar PV, Solar, Energy
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has kicked off an additional program to ensure priority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the country, and prosecute the businesses if found to be deliberately mislabeling foods. ...
Tags: Lamb Meat, Substitution Testing
A lack of investment interest in gold is starting to take its toll on the price, with an average of $1,225/oz forecast for 2014 and heading lower in 2015, GFMS said Thursday in its Gold Survey 2014. The price forecast is 13% lower than ...
Tags: Gold Price, Physical demand
China’s gross domestic product rose 7.4% year over year in the first quarter–down from 7.7% growth in the fourth quarter of last year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. The increase was more than a ...
Tags: gross domestic product, economy
Mead, the alcoholic beverage made from honey, may be the world's oldest fermented drink, but it is also the country's hottest. A recent industry survey reveals that mead sales increased 130% from 2012 to 2013, exceeding growth rates for ...
Warmer spring weather spurred continued consumer spending and activity this March. According to the National Retail Federation – the world's largest retail trade association – March retail sales, which exclude automobiles, gas ...
Tags: NRF, US Retail Sales
The fourth quarter of 2013 showed signs of improvement in small business loans. For the first time in 15 consecutive quarters, both the value and volume of small business loans increased simultane-ously 0.4 percent and 1.1 percent ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Global market for industrial laser systems worth $10.7BN in 2013, says Optech’s Arnold Mayer. Respected industrial laser market forecaster Arnold Mayer says that the global market for laser materials processing systems hit a record ...
US crude stocks jumped 10 million barrels last week -- the largest build in 13 years -- on a surge in imports and lower refinery run rates in the US Gulf Coast, data from the US Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday. The ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, lower refinery
China’s decelerating economy is weighing on the country’s small businesses, which account for 60% of its gross domestic product. According to a survey by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce, 60% of ...
From a zipper-like wound closure device that can be peeled off at home to a telemedicine robot, there are plenty of ingenious devices included as finalists in this year's Medical Design Excellence Awards. It is worth noting, however, that ...
Tags: Reshaping Medtech, Health, Medicine
The research, carried out independently by YouGov, surveyed 2157 UK respondents, and found more women (79%) than men (74%) prefer to dispense their ketchup out of a plastic bottle. The nature of the design of these bottles, now boasting a ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle, Packaging, Printing
Farmers who use propane-powered irrigation engines reduced their fuel costs by 56% in comparison with diesel-powered engines, according to a survey conducted by the Propane Education and Research Council's 2013 Propane Farm Incentive ...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
Tags: Construction
By 2020, the global middle class will almost double to 3.2 billion people, and as the middle class grows, particularly in emerging markets, so will their demand for high-tech gadgets, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, economy