The Angolan Nemba crude premium to heavier grade Hungo crude has hit a near two year high as the naphtha-rich grade gains support from soaring Nigerian crude values, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed Nemba Thursday at Dated ...
German specialty chemicals company LANXESS has announced strong figures for the past fiscal year, with improvements in key reported numbers. “2012 was the best year in our growth story so far. Our business model proved itself once ...
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Prices for varieties available on the domestic market showed a firm tendency due to the future movements in New York. The business was inconsistent, and despite a solid demand rather sedate. The interest was focused on deliveries for near ...
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Seadrill orders two jack-ups for delivery in 2015 Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013 Seadrill has exercised fixed price options for the construction of two high specification jack-up drilling rigs at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co., Ltd. (DSIC ...
Benzene's premium to feedstock naphtha slid to its lowest in the Northwest European market since October 18, breaching the psychologically important $400/mt mark for the first time since mid-November to be assessed at $379.75/mt at ...
At 1700 AEDT, the local currency was trading at 103.64 US cents, up from 103.50 cents on Thursday. Westpac chief currency strategist Robert Rennie said the Australian dollar traded in a narrow range on Friday but remained well supported. ...
Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 2% annually to reach 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “Ongoing macroeconomic challenges in ...
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The rating on Wyomissing based Carpenter Technology Corp (Carpenter) reflects Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' assessment of the company's "satisfactory" business risk profile and "intermediate" financial risk profile. The company's ...
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The rating on Wyomissing based Carpenter Technology Corp (Carpenter) reflects Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' assessment of the company's "satisfactory" business risk profile and "intermediate" financial risk profile. The company's ...
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The wool market held on to last week’s gains and the Cape Wools merino indicator closed the day up a marginal 0.3% at R88,82/kg (clean). Although traders say trading conditions remain tough, there was solid demand from the ...
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Aerobal, the international organisation representing the sector, yesterday reported that deodorants were the driving force behind the continued growth of the format, which has shown an average annual uplift in volumes of 8% for the last six ...
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The overall of glass industry Upstream price trend:the soda ash market is still in depression.The international crude oil price dropped recently and it may have an impact on fuel price. The downstream demand trend: The real estate:the ...
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Amonix shuts large HCPV panel factory in US 25 Jul 2012"Competition,price pressure,challenging market",cited as reasons for Las Vegas closure.Does HCPV still have good prospects? . It was reported locally that the Seal ...
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German machinery maker Brückner Group has opened a new headquarters in China that will roughly double its production capacity there, as the firm said it expects continued solid demand in the market. The 65, 000 square foot factory, in ...
Carl Zeiss Meditec, the medical technology specialist that is majority-owned by the German optics giant Carl Zeiss, has reported a strong set of data for the first six months of its current financial year – thanks in part to ...
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