The February US benzene contract price settled 36 cents/gal ($107.64/mt) lower at $4.80/gal ($1,435.20/mt), sources said Thursday. The last time the benzene CP settled lower was in September, when it settled at $4.20/gal, down 40 ...
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The national system was well supplied Thursday morning with reduced reliance on storage withdrawals but prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub rose as colder temperatures are expected for Friday and to push into February. At ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday the initiation of administrative reviews of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with a December anniversary date. The DOC initiated the following administrative review ...
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The argument for the creation of Modex, a show that will co-locate a logistics show within a materials handling show, is the recognition that what happens outside the four walls is converging with what happens inside the four walls. After ...
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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has awarded Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX-10) the NAM’s Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence at an event hosted by NAM member Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America (MCFA). ...
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Manufacturing growth began 2013 on a strong note in January, according to the January Manufacturing report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity, ...
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Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., which specializes in end-of-line solutions for case packing and palletizing needs, has announced that Linda Palladino, a project manager with Schneider Packaging, was recently recognized by The ...
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Toronto-listed miner Northland Resources has announced that it will start loading its first iron ore vessel on February 9 for further shipment to end customer and partner Tata Steel UK Limited. Northland's first shipment of 40,000 mt of ...
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VentriPoint Diagnostics has submitted a 510(k) application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for its 2D-ultrasound system, designed for measuring right ventricle heart function in patients with pulmonary arterial ...
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Intersect ENT has started a blinded, multi-center, prospective, randomized clinical study, Resolve, of its new steroid delivery implant for treating patients with recurrent sinus obstruction. The implant, which is designed as an ...
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Pakistan government has ratified the $1.5 billion Iran pipeline project, which will bring around 750,000 Mcf/day of gas to the energy-starved country by January 2015, an official from petroleum ministry said Thursday. The federal ...
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Chinese buyers needing coal promptly would have to pay higher prices currently due to supply constraints created by weather-related disruptions in both Indonesia and Australia, sources said Thursday. "People who have been caught short ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,30 commodities increased in prices, 13 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 31/01/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.57%),Silver (1.24%),Zinc (0.72%),while the largest ...
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The four paraxylene Asia Contract Price-based sellers, ExxonMobil, Idemitsu Kosan, JX Nippon Oil and Energy and S-Oil, who typically lower their nominations to meet bid levels have not done so for the February ACP as spot prices have ...
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NEMA’s January Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American business conditions built on the momentum generated at the end of 2012, climbing for a fifth month in a row to 73.8. The nearly 10 point gain ...