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Plastic is an integral part of the modern lifestyle. The majority of plastic products are made with the help of plastic additives, which makes the end-products safer, cleaner, tougher, and colorful. Plastic additives are chemical substances that are added to a polymeric compound to process, modify or give it specific properties, which makes the end-products more useful. Plastic additives include property modifiers, property extenders, property stabilizers, and processing aids.

Within canned/preserved food packaging, cans are declining but remain the biggest and strongest pack type in the biggest food categories (baked beans, vegetables, tomatoes, soup and fish). While items such as baked beans are increasingly being sold in other formats and pack sizes, cans continues to dominate as consumers are unlikely to switch habits quickly. Also, as economic difficulties remain, consumers have stocked up on canned food and are cautious about alternative packaging formats as they can consider these to be more expensive.

Air care benefited from strong industrial and population growth in South Africa's major cities during the review period, with cities thus becoming increasingly polluted and overcrowded. This encouraged consumers to increase their use of air care as they sought to improve the environment in their homes. However, increasing financial constraints also resulted in consumers being careful in their spending on air care in 2012, with many consumers trading down to lower-priced products, brands and private label or buying air care only when discounted.

Colour cosmetics in Lithuania continued to rebound strongly from the unfortunate effects of the economic crisis during 2012, with growth in the category supported by both the search for increased variety and the strong loyalty which many Lithuanians have to the category's most established brands. Lithuania's retailers aggressively promoted various types of colour cosmetics throughout 2012 and this gave a further boost to value sales of colour cosmetics. In addition, the leading players in the category engaged in much higher spending on advertising during 2012 and this marked colour cosmetics out from the majority of other beauty and personal care categories in which spending on advertising remains minimal.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Traveler's Diarrhea - Pipeline Review, H1 2014', provides an overview of the Traveler's Diarrhea's therapeutic pipeline.

In 2011 SanCor United Co Ltd launched a new and practical individual packaging of powder milk powder formula for its brand Sancor Bebe 1, 2 and 3. Each folding carton contains16 sticks of 16g each, which are ideal to carry in a baby bag, easy to prepare and substantially more economical than liquid milk formula. Given the important logistics network of SanCor this new product is available nationwide.

Carbon Capture & Sequestration Market by Service (Capture, Transport & Sequestration) Technology (Post-Combustion, Pre-Combustion, Oxy-Fuel Combustion & Industrial Separation) and Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to 2019

As the economic situation remained uncertain and overall confidence low in 2012, British consumers cooked at home more and, with events such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Euro 2012 and the London Olympics, consumers also entertained at home more. As a result, the market for sauces, dressings and condiments increased in both value and volume terms, in turn benefiting the packaging market.

Montreal stands out in Canada for its scientific, retailing and logistics potential. The city continues growing both in terms of population and GDP. The Port of Montreal, the second biggest container handling port in the country, is an important hub for Canada's exporters and the importing countries. Economic recession was milder in Montreal than in the rest of Canada and the recovery has already led to numerous new jobs created in the tertiary sector.

LED lighting, also known as solid state lighting, is a semiconductor-based lighting technology. LEDs emit light based on the electroluminescence principle, which gives them high luminous efficacy. Also, LEDs are compact in size and are more power efficient as well as brighter than traditional lighting technologies such as incandescent and fluorescent lamps. Owing to these advantages, customers prefer to use LEDs for general lighting applications. In China, LEDs are gaining more importance due to their power and luminous efficacy. Moreover, the government also supports the adoption of LED lighting to a large extent. Thus, China is becoming one of the largest potential markets for LED lighting.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Degenerative Disc Disease - Pipeline Review, H1 2014', provides an overview of the Degenerative Disc Disease's therapeutic pipeline.

Transformer Oil Market, by Types (Mineral Oil - Naphthenic & Paraffinic, Silicone, and Bio-based), Applications (Small & Large Transformers, Utility) & Geography - Global Industry Trends & Forecast to 2018

This report presents a recent review of the Chinese smartphone industry in the first quarter of 2014. The report includes shipment volume of major smartphone branded vendors in China, breakdowns of each vendor's shipment volume share by chipset maker, application processor model, ASP, panel size, and camera pixel. The report also examines major chipset makers' product mix for smartphones sold in China. The report finds that the Chinese smartphone industry's shipment volume slid 15.0% sequentially to around 89.1 million units in the first quarter of 2014, with a total number of 461 models launched during this period. It is noted that the majority of smartphones sold in China were mid-tier models packed with a dual- or quad-core CPU, featuring a 5" or larger screen and over 8M camera pixels, and sold at 700 RMB to 2000 RMB (US$112.4 to US$321; US$1=6.228 RMB). Looking ahead, Xiaomi and Lenovo, both led Apple by less than one percentage point in the first-quarter shipment share, will begin to feel a mounting pressure to keep their current places, as new iPhone products are expected to hit the market in the second half of this year.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, but fatal, motor neuron disease (MND) characterized by axonal degeneration and progressive loss of motor neurons. ALS affects both the upper (brain to spinal cord) and lower (brain stem to muscle tissue) motor neurons, gradually reducing a patient's ability to initiate and control muscle movement. Muscle atrophy, starting in the periphery (arms and legs), ultimately leads to complete paralysis after several years of progressive worsening of muscle strength. Respiratory failure is the most common cause of death, as smooth muscle function becomes affected when the disease is in its final stages. The progressively degenerative course of the condition is a great burden for both patients and caregivers, as well as for society. ALS usually affects people age =40 years, and has a worldwide incidence of about two cases per 100,000 population, and a prevalence ranging between four and seven cases per 100,000.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Dry (Atrophic) Macular Degeneration - Pipeline Review, H1 2014', provides an overview of the Dry (Atrophic) Macular Degeneration's therapeutic pipeline.

Growth in total vegetables volume sales in 2013 was down sharply on 2012, and well below the review period CAGR. This was mainly due to rapidly declining demand for onions and tomatoes. Production in both of these categories was negatively affected by unfavourable weather conditions during the monsoon season, which caused significant price hikes. Between August and October, for example, onion prices rose to the unheard levels of Rs100 per kilogram. Similarly, tomato prices peaked at Rs80 per...

Super junction MOSFETs are power semiconductor components used for high-frequency and high-voltage applications. They are fabricated using two types of technology, multi-epitaxial growth and deep trench. Multi-epitaxial growth technology uses the multiple epitaxy and doping processes to create a doped area in the epilayer, which diffuses and creates an N-doped layer. Deep trench technology uses the deep reactive ion etching technique to create a trench, which is then filled with an N-doped material to form the super junction structure. Super junction MOSFETs are used in a wide range of applications such as servers, telecommunications, computing, industrial power supply, UPS, solar inverters, lighting applications, and consumer electronics, which require high power density, system efficiency, and reliability. They have extremely fast switching characteristics and low switching loss, enabling higher power conversion efficiency.

MNOs call for committee to manage launch of LTE services

The India Food & Drink Report features Business Monitor International (BMI)'s market assessment and independent forecasts for food and drink expenditure, consumption, sales, and imports/exports and forecasts for the mass grocery retail sector. The report also includes analyses of major regulatory developments, the background macroeconomic outlook and competitive landscape comparing national and multinational companies by leading products and services, sales, investments, partners and expansion strategies.

In 2013 real GDP once again registered negative growth. The unemployment rate rose to 12.5%, with a 36% peak in the unemployed 15-24 year old demographic. Public debt rose to 130% of annual GDP while the taxation level reached 55%. Italy's structural problems, such as the slow pace of justice, political corruption and uncertainty, high labour cost, and inability to attract investment because of bureaucracy, remain unresolved. The turmoil on the international financial markets, tough policies...

The increase in interest in keeping a clean home with effective products boosted surface care sales in 2013. The increased use of specific products to clean each area of the home has resulted in a rise in demand within areas like bathroom cleaners and kitchen cleaners. Despite the deterioration of purchasing power registered in 2013, surface care demand in general remained stable since people are aware of the importance of keeping their house disinfected. Meanwhile, this trend negatively impacted bleach, which is commonly used as a disinfectant in Argentina.

"Fish & Seafood Market in Seychelles: Databook to 2017" is the result of Canadean's extensive market research covering the Fish & Seafood market in Seychelles.

This research report presents shipment volume and value forecasts and recent quarter review of the Taiwanese server system and server motherboard industries. The report includes server full system, barebone, and motherboard shipment volume, shipment value, ASP, volume and share by maker and by price point, and manufacturer volume ranking. The report analyzes shipment by CPU architecture and CPU count. Production locations, shipment destinations, business types, and customer portfolios are also examined. The content of this report is based on primary data obtained through interviews with server makers. The report finds that shipment volume of the Taiwanese server system and motherboard industries grew steadily in the first quarter of 2014, uphold by increasing shipments of white-box and Chinese branded servers. Meanwhile, the combined share of orders placed by branded vendors for Taiwanese makers reduced to 70% in the first quarter of 2014.

Global Markets Direct's, 'Bavarian Nordic A/S - Product Pipeline Review - 2014', provides an overview of the Bavarian Nordic A/S's pharmaceutical research and development focus.

Skin care in Lithuania expanded considerably during 2012 in spite the confusion surrounding the majority of skin care products among many Lithuanian consumers. The majority of Lithuanians were befuddled by the plethora of controversial information in the media regarding the effectiveness of ecological skin care products, sales of which continued to grow throughout 2012. At the same time, many of the companies producing traditional skin care products made the most of the doubt which was emerging about the effectiveness of ecological skin care products with the strong suggestion that Lithuanian consumers no longer believe the false promises of the manufacturers of ecological skin care products and are now willing to return to more established brands instead. These tensions within skin care in Lithuania had an impact on the distribution and promotion of skin care generally, but did not have a major influence on value or volume growth during 2012. The gains made in the category during 2012 were primarily due to rapidly increasing sales of premium skin care brands as well as products which promise to solve specific skin care issues such as acne and cellulite.