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As the global economic recovery strengthened in 2014, the production of crude steel grew by 1.2% to reach 1.66 billion tonnes in 2014. This led to an increase in global production of manganese ore, which increased from 50.7Mt in 2012 to an estimated 59.2Mt in 2014 according to Publisher. In 2013, China was the largest producer of manganese ore at 23Mt, followed by South Africa (11.02Mt), Australia (7.26Mt), Gabon (4.3Mt), Brazil (2.44Mt) and India (2.05Mt). Of the rest, Ghana accounted for 1.91Mt and Ukraine 1.35Mt.

Publisher estimates that the Pumpkin Hollow and Contact copper projects in Nevada, which are scheduled to commence production in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and the Rosemont project in Arizona, with a capacity of 110,223t and scheduled to start operations in 2017, will support copper mine production in the US.

By far, there are over 120 electric forklift manufacturers in China. Most of these manufacturers have low production and sales scale. Anhui Heli and Hangcha Group are leading manufacturers in domestic market, accounting for over 40% of market share in 2014. Due to further development of logistics industry, the demand of electric forklift remains high.

Chinese new energy vehicles industry has large progress in development by years of research. In 2014, there are 78,499 new energy vehicles had produced and 74,763 was sold in China, which are 3.5 times and 3.2 times increased respectively, compared to previous year. On the other hand, vehicle battery met its sales peak 4.7GWh, which was 210% increased than 2013. Publisher estimates 700 thousand of electric vehicles will be sold in 2020; the market share of new energy vehicles will achieve 3%. For market segments, passenger vehicles and lithium battery usage will jointly rise. Over 49.8GWh battery will be used in 2020 estimated; and lithium battery will exceed electronics become the largest segment in electric vehicles accessories market.

Chinese aluminum-replace-copper rate stays in a low level currently. In United States, the ratio that replaces copper with aluminum alloy or with almasilium is 70%-75%; this replacement the ratio is 55% in Japan and 3%-5% in Chinese barely. Since new energy market is fast developing in China, aluminum alloy cable will widely adopt by the following years.

ICT investment trends in France presents the findings from a survey of 156 French enterprises regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how French enterprises currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

Cigarettes in Serbia is a new report by Publisher that focuses on the extent to which Serbia Cigarettes market has evolved in line with changing smoking habits, the competitive environment and economic developments, as well as analyzing the implications market realignments have had on top multinational companies.

Reviewing the domestic vitamin market in May, VE market presented a downturn: oversupply made its price low. Some new entrants have penetrated into VE market, such as Jilin Beisha Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd. and Fujian Haixin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which will weaken the presence of the current leading enterprises. It's an inevitable trend that the VE price will remain fall in the near future. Due to overcapacity, the price of VB2 kept falling. Under such circumstance, the leader Hubei Guangji Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd. suffered losses in Q1 2015. VC showed an upward price trend after a continual fall. Stringent environmental protection policy and the upturn of downstream pig farming in future will push up VC price.

In May 2015, each segment in the Chinese sweetener industry were involved in different situations.

Since 2000 when the existing Seed Law of the People's Republic of China was put into effect, many blemishes of the Chinese seed industry have shown up: