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"The report focuses on automotive HVAC and Cabin comfort systems, which have cemented their place in a vehicle with the growing demand for luxuries. The automotive HVAC systems which were first introduced in 1930s are standard equipment in almost every vehicle in the developed markets such as U.S. and Europe. The key drivers behind the growth of this market are the rising amount of time spent by people in their vehicles and the growing popularity of private vehicles over public transport. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to be the largest segment in automotive HVAC market owing to the large vehicle production levels in countries such China, India, and Japan."

BEIJING -- China, the world's largest metal consumer, discarded a plan to buy copper to support domestic smelters because producers are still profitable and inventories aren't high, government and company officials said.

LEDs may be snagging the majority of light bulb headlines these days, but Panasonic's apparently found some room for improvement with compact fluorescents, with it now proclaiming that its new Pa-Look Ball Premium Q bulbs boast the world first "hybrid lighting method.

Outokumpu, a leading stainless steel fabricator, announced on 1st November that it has sold its 50% shareholding in Nordic Brass Gusum, a brass rod mill located in Sweden, to the operative management. The brass rod mill has a production capacity of 40,000t/y, employs 150 workers and in 2010 achieved a turnover of EUR110M. Outokumpu still owns another brass mill in the Netherlands, Copper LDM B.V., which has a production capacity of around 30,000t/y.

""A manufacturing operation would be annoyed if it wasn't running 95 per cent of the time at full capacity . . . we in a lot of the resources business have become accustomed to numbers that are more like 60 to 70 per cent," "