Robust vehicle sales are providing a boost to Pittsburgh Glass Works, which is adding 50 to 60 employees at its plant in Creighton, East Deer. The facility fabricates glass used mainly for automobile windshields. About 225 employees ...
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Shanghai GM, a joint venture between General Motors Company and SAIC Motor is targeting to sell about 1.45 million vehicles in 2013. The joint venture company, which sells Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and Opel brand cars in China, is ...
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Taipei, Nov. 20, 2012 (CENS)--To jointly tap the high-potential new-energy vehicle market in China, Shanghai Ruihua Group of China and Taiwan’s Formosa Lithium Iron Oxide Corp. (FLIC and formerly Formosa Energy & Material Technology ...
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PILKINGTON owner Nippon Sheet Glass has gone into the red and shed 1, 750 jobs worldwide this year as it restructures to cope with the effects of the global recession. The group, which employs some 1, 600 people across its sites in St ...
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Auto glass sales and profits fell during the second quarter of this year when compared to last for Tokyo-based Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG). The international company released today its second quarter financial results for its fiscal year 2013 ...
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Revenue within the US automotive coatings manufacturing market has been forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate(CAGR)of 2.7percent over the next five years,to reach a total market value of$1.5 billion in 2017,according to new ...
The Bank of Israel is using Google search data to find clues to the state of the Israeli economy,analysing keyword counts reported by Google,before it releases its own official statistics. And the Bank of England,the Federal Reserve in ...
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BHP Billiton Ltd. (RIO), the world’s biggest mining company, said China’s steel production is slowing as the world’s fastest-growing major economy starts to shift to focus more on consumers than large building projects. ...
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Manufacturing probably picked up in the U. S. In March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth, economists said before a report today. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in ...
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Business activity in the U. S. Cooled in January as orders and employment slowed, indicating last quarter’s pickup in growth will not be sustained into 2012. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. Said today its business ...
Manufacturing probably grew at a faster pace in January, a sign the industry will lead the U. S. Expansion early this year, economists said before today’s report. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index rose to 54.5, ...
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