The India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), which took place in Mumbai this week, reflected a cautious local diamond and jewelry trade, even if sentiment was better than expected. Suppliers arrived with low expectations as a month-long ...
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Turkey Hill Dairy starts a year-long celebration of its 85th anniversary and is introducing a new drink to pay tribute to farmers and farming roots, Haymakers. Haymakers, available in ciders, punches and teas, is made with simple ...
Star Wars was not the only force making a come-back in 2015. The return of generic advertising brought with it a promise of increased profitability for the diamond trade. Even as numerous stories reflecting pain in the industry vied for our ...
German petrochemicals producer BASF said July 24 that it expected the economic slowdown in China, margin volatility and growth uncertainty in Europe to be the biggest risks to growth for its chemicals division during the second half of the ...
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Symplicity Spyral Multi-electrode Renal Denervation Catheter (Image courtesy of Medtronic) The medtech giant isn’t giving up yet on renal denervation, if a new announcement is any indication. Chris Newmarker Medtronic is ...
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For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
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The U.S. trade deficit fell to an 11-month low in November as declining crude oil prices curbed the import bill, prompting economists to sharply raise their growth estimates for fourth-quarter growth. Yet big moves also create the ...
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China's crude imports from its major suppliers rose significantly in November versus a year ago, with Russian cargoes hitting a record high, although shipments from top exporter Saudi Arabia fell 5.9% to 3.99 million mt, detailed data from ...
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China's imports shrank unexpectedly in November while export growth slowed, fuelling concerns that the world's second-largest economy could be facing a sharper slowdown and adding pressure on policymakers to ramp up stimulus measures. ...
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The spot alumina price in China's Henan was rangebound Wednesday at Yuan 2,860/mt ($465/mt) for 70:30 cash and credit payment terms, unchanged from September 30, as the market returned from an extended break from October 1-7 to celebrate ...
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Speaking at the 2014 China Coal, Coke & Steel Industries Conference (CCIC) held in Qingdao on August 21, Wang Xiaoqi, vice chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that in the first seven months of the current year ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy
As of May 26, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 114.82 million mt, up 1.95 million mt or 1.73 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on May 19, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same ...
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China's steel production has plateaued and mills are focusing on complying with tougher anti-pollution measures instead of expanding capacity, a senior official at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said on Wednesday. The fight ...
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The world runs on electricity and the bigger the industry, the more the power consumption. Therefore, heavy industries have their own generators and transformers from where they can get uninterrupted power that is distributed equally across ...
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The rally in the gold price lost some steam on Wednesday, after traders booked profits from the metal's strong showing in February and a stronger dollar curbed demand. In lunchtime trade on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile ...
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