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AptarGroup Reports Quarter Results
Nov 17, 2016AptarGroup has announced quarter results for this year. Third quarter results For the quarter ended September 30, 2016, reported sales increased 1% to $590 million from $586 million a year ago. Excluding the negative impact from changes ...
Tags: AptarGroup, Packaging
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Optimism Among Traders as Canton Fair Opens
Oct 17, 2016Chinese manufacturers and traders were optimistic about overcoming global economic headwinds as they turned up at the month-long Canton fair which opened its 120th session on Saturday at the southern city of Guangzhou. The biannual event, ...
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China's Industrial Profits Grow 19.5% in Aug.
Sep 28, 2016China's industrial profits rose 19.5 percent year on year to 534.8 billion yuan (about 80.3 billion U.S. dollars) in August, official data showed Tuesday. The growth rate was faster than the 11-percent increase registered one month ...
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Lower Polysilicon Prices Trigger Price Drop
Sep 12, 2016Despite annual equipment maintenance restraining production volumes, prices on China's polysilicon have tumbled on weak demand, signaling across-the-board price drop in the PV supply chain. The price decline reverses the long-term higher ...
Tags: polysilicon, OV
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China's Machinery Sector Showed Signs of Recovery
Aug 14, 2016China's machinery sector showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2016, according to an industry association Tuesday. The China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) said the sector's value added in the first six months expanded 7.8 ...
Tags: machinery sector, machinery
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Air Freight Recovery Slow
Nov 12, 2015Air freight volumes were up slightly in September according to the IATA, with freight tonne kilometres (FTK) 1.0% higher compared to a year ago. This was a small improvement on August, when volumes were broadly stable year to year, however, ...
Tags: Air Freight, world trade
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Mexican Rebar Prices Stay Flat Despite Mills' Intention to Hike
Nov 4, 2015Rebar prices kept unchanged in Mexico through October, although producers continue to be assertive about hiking prices, sources in the domestic market said. Reported offers, bids and deals led Platts to maintain its Mexican domestic rebar ...
Tags: Rebar prices, Stay Flat, sluggish demand
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Sinopec, Petrochina Cut Domestic Oil Product Sales, Boost Exports
Nov 4, 2015China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina reported a modest 1.73 million mt or 0.7% increase in their domestic oil products sales in the first nine months of 2015, but exports rose by 2.59 million mt or 12% in the same period, ...
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Air Freight Continues to Lag
Oct 13, 2015The IATA reports that air freight volumes were broadly unchanged in August compared to a year ago, with freight tonne kilometres 0.2% higher. The August data shows a pause in earlier declines in air freight volumes, consistent with ...
Tags: Air Freight, air freight volumes
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Glut, Sluggish Demand Influences Cotton Exports
Apr 23, 2015Hit by sluggish Chinese demand, India’s cotton export is expected to fall 29 per cent to 7 million bales in the current crop year that ends in September. India has so far exported only 4.5 million bales of cotton this year, media ...
Tags: Chinese demand, cotton export
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China Smartphone Shipments Drop 8.8% in 4Q14
Feb 1, 2015Shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors declined 8.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2014, affected by weaker than expected sales for some brand vendors, according to Digitimes Research. For the first quarter of 2015, ...
Tags: smartphones, smartphone shipments
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Financial Results for The Quarter of Asian Paints Ltd
Jan 30, 2015Asian Paints Ltd. has announced its financial results for the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2014. “We registered single-digit volume growth in the decorative paint segment in India due to sluggish demand conditions," ...
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Mondelez International Posts a 11% Decline in Earnings in The Third-Quarter of Fiscal 2014
Nov 19, 2014Mondelez International, the maker of Oreo biscuits and Cadbury's chocolate, posted a 11% decline in earnings in the third-quarter of fiscal 2014 compared to the same period a year ago, as a result of weaker revenues and higher expenses. ...
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Revenues of Sutlej Textiles Too Declined, Slower by 6.7% to RS. 459 Crore
Nov 17, 2014Net profit for the second fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2014, slipped 30.2% year-on-year at value-added yarns and home textile producer - Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd (STIL). In the second quarter of fiscal 2014-15, profit ...
Tags: Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd, topline performance, Textile
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Chinese Steelmakers Eyes on Overseas Markets
Nov 10, 2014Although dwindling domestic demand and excess capacity have shrunk profit margins for most Chinese steelmakers, it has inspired some to tap overseas markets for sustained, long-term growth. Hebei Iron &Steel Co, China's second-largest ...
Tags: Chinese Steelmakers, Iron, Steel