China’s EPDM Market to Welcome a New Round of Price Increases
China’s EPDM market fluctuated within a narrow range in 2017. Affected by the environmental protection inspection, market supply was insufficient and the demand was weak. With the tight supply...
Industry upbeat on govt support through regulatory duty
KARACHI (Staff Reporter): The recent tariff measures and removal of anomalies by the federal government should result in supporting growth of large scale manufacturing (LSM) in Pakistan thus giving...
Textile and leather: FBR reduces ST on imported finished goods/articles
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reduced sales tax on imported finished goods/articles of textile and leather from 17% along with 2% value addition sales tax to 6...
SIS Prices Continued Soaring in October Boosted by Multiple Positive Factors
The styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS) ex-works price was uplifted for several times following the decline. Why does the SIS market begin to gain ground? How will the SIS market perform in...
Trade deficit surges 19.5pc in September
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan`s trade deficit widened by 19.49 per cent to $2.391 billion in September, compared to $2.001bn during the same month last year, data released by the Pakistan Bureau...
Organic Personal Care Market is Skyrocketing-Towards 2022
The organic personal care market has made rapid progress in the recent past to emerge as a vital offshoot of the global cosmetics sector. The organic personal care market...
ExxonMobil to License Technology for Chinese Resid Upgrading Unit
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has announced an agreement with Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Co Ltd, to license ExxonMobil’s Flexicoking technology to build a resid upgrading unit at Sinochem Hongrun’s High-End...
Maximum efforts being made to facilitate businessmen: Punjab governor
LAHORE (Staff Reporter): Punjab Governor Muhammad Rafique Rajwana said on Saturday that maximum efforts were being made to facilitate the business community which was revenue generator and employment provider....
.PITF 2017 to help boost trade with friendly countries
KARACHI - President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan International Trade Fair (PITF 2017) will provide excellent opportunities for progress and improvement of industry and commerce.
The president further said...
Global Conductive Textiles Grow 15%
The global conductive textiles market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.6 per cent from 2016 to 2021. Growth of smart fabrics market, increasing awareness of the...